Windows Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 125 222 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.81% 12.35% 8.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.31% 74.25% 64.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 152 130
10th Percentile £200 £148 £131
25th Percentile £245 £205 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £398 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -11.67% +46.34%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £584
90th Percentile £685 £636 £650
South East median daily rate £430 £360 £405
% change year-on-year +19.44% -11.00% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 5
10th Percentile - £29.15 £29.49
25th Percentile £55.87 £48.40 £50.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £54.56 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.80% +69.23%
75th Percentile £58.49 £61.25 £96.25
90th Percentile £65.21 £68.35 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £43.95 £17.00
% change year-on-year +19.46% +158.51% +11.48%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 299 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.43% 16.64% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 205 197
10th Percentile £200 £149 £147
25th Percentile £326 £210 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £599
90th Percentile £682 £646 £668
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile - £29.15 £36.49
25th Percentile £55.87 £48.40 £51.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £54.56 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -39.38% +48.76%
75th Percentile £58.49 £61.25 £96.25
90th Percentile £65.21 £68.35 £96.75
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +223.53% -2.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -23 59 £605 +43.20% 22
Wokingham +14 35 £350 +7.69% 3
Slough -6 4 £220 -45.00% 1
Bracknell -7 4 £301 +111.40% 4
Windsor -5 3 £200 -35.48% 1
Newbury +11 2 £194 -51.26% 1
Maidenhead 0 1 - - 1
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.60%) Azure
2 28 (22.40%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (16.80%) Entra ID
4 12 (9.60%) Azure Storage
5 11 (8.80%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (6.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (4.00%) AWS
7 5 (4.00%) GCP
7 5 (4.00%) OCI
8 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.40%) IaaS
9 2 (1.60%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.60%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.60%) PaaS
9 2 (1.60%) SaaS
10 1 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.40%) DNS
2 26 (20.80%) DHCP
3 22 (17.60%) Firewall
4 7 (5.60%) Network Security
5 5 (4.00%) SAN
5 5 (4.00%) WAN
5 5 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.20%) LAN
6 4 (3.20%) SSL
6 4 (3.20%) VPN
7 3 (2.40%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.60%) Broadband
8 2 (1.60%) Internet
8 2 (1.60%) Mobile Broadband
8 2 (1.60%) NGFW
8 2 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.60%) VLAN
8 2 (1.60%) VoIP
8 2 (1.60%) WLAN
9 1 (0.80%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.60%) MySQL
2 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (28.80%) MSI
2 9 (7.20%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.80%) AdminStudio
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
General
1 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.60%) Finance
3 14 (11.20%) Telecoms
4 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.60%) Electronics
6 11 (8.80%) Manufacturing
6 11 (8.80%) Marketing
7 4 (3.20%) Military
8 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.80%) French Language
9 1 (0.80%) Games
9 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Support Engineer
2 22 (17.60%) Analyst
3 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 16 (12.80%) Architect
4 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.00%) Senior
6 13 (10.40%) Administrator
6 13 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.60%) Active Directory Engineer
7 12 (9.60%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (8.80%) Active Directory Support
8 11 (8.80%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 11 (8.80%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 10 (8.00%) Desktop Support
10 9 (7.20%) Active Directory Architect
10 9 (7.20%) Wintel Analyst
11 8 (6.40%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) IT Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.00%) .NET
2 5 (4.00%) COM
2 5 (4.00%) SOAP
3 2 (1.60%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.60%) SAML
4 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (8.80%) PKI
3 7 (5.60%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.60%) Replication
5 2 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.80%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.80%) CSOC
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.80%) PlayStation
6 1 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.60%) Windows 10
2 27 (21.60%) Linux
3 26 (20.80%) Windows Server
4 21 (16.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (15.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (11.20%) VMS
7 11 (8.80%) Windows 7
8 6 (4.80%) Android
9 4 (3.20%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.60%) Unix
12 1 (0.80%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) Agile
1 29 (23.20%) Application Packaging
2 25 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 24 (19.20%) ITIL
4 20 (16.00%) Release Management
5 19 (15.20%) DevOps
6 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (12.80%) Problem Management
8 15 (12.00%) Change Management
8 15 (12.00%) Service Management
9 13 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (10.40%) RBAC
10 12 (9.60%) Analytics
10 12 (9.60%) Identity Management
10 12 (9.60%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (8.80%) Digital Marketing
11 11 (8.80%) Privileged Identity Management
11 11 (8.80%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.80%) C#
3 15 (12.00%) VBScript
4 11 (8.80%) Bicep
4 11 (8.80%) SQL
4 11 (8.80%) VB
5 5 (4.00%) Delphi
5 5 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.20%) Python
7 2 (1.60%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.60%) Perl
8 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 79 (63.20%) Security Cleared
2 56 (44.80%) SC Cleared
3 39 (31.20%) DV Cleared
4 23 (18.40%) Degree
5 11 (8.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (4.00%) CCNA
6 5 (4.00%) CCNP
6 5 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.00%) CISM
6 5 (4.00%) CISSP
7 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.40%) SLA
2 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 62 (49.60%) Active Directory
2 35 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (25.60%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (16.00%) vSphere
5 20 (16.00%) XenApp
5 20 (16.00%) XenDesktop
6 14 (11.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (9.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (40.00%) SCCM
2 16 (12.80%) SCOM
2 16 (12.80%) WSUS
3 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (10.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
6 10 (8.00%) Terraform
7 9 (7.20%) Ansible
7 9 (7.20%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (4.00%) NetBackup
8 5 (4.00%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.60%) ThinApp
10 1 (0.80%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (36.00%) VMware
3 23 (18.40%) Citrix
4 11 (8.80%) SAP
5 8 (6.40%) Oracle
6 6 (4.80%) Cisco
6 6 (4.80%) Dell
6 6 (4.80%) HP
7 5 (4.00%) 3PAR
7 5 (4.00%) EMC
7 5 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
7 5 (4.00%) Juniper
7 5 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.00%) Symantec
8 3 (2.40%) ArcSight
8 3 (2.40%) Google
9 2 (1.60%) Netskope
10 1 (0.80%) Meraki
10 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.80%) Tanium