Windows Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Windows
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 138 76 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.65% 7.35% 10.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.15% 58.02% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 58 122
10th Percentile £205 £348 £146
25th Percentile £213 £510 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £601 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +14.52% +23.82%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £642
90th Percentile - £734 £669
Berkshire median daily rate £480 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.14% +15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £48.50 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -
75th Percentile £62.25 £69.44 -
90th Percentile £63.90 £76.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.33% -19.23% +317.87%

All Operating Systems
Reading

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 164 131 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.84% 12.67% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 100 163
10th Percentile £205 £325 £150
25th Percentile £213 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +11.90% +23.82%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £628
90th Percentile - £763 £674
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £515 £490
% change year-on-year -17.48% +5.10% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £56.33 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £56.44 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.25 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -
75th Percentile £65.94 £72.84 -
90th Percentile £67.63 £77.96 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Reading

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Reading

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Reading

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Reading

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 36 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.06%) Azure
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 16 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (11.59%) Azure Storage
5 13 (9.42%) OCI
6 7 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.17%) Serverless
8 2 (1.45%) AWS
8 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.45%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.64%) Firewall
2 29 (21.01%) DHCP
2 29 (21.01%) DNS
3 20 (14.49%) LAN
4 13 (9.42%) SAN
5 5 (3.62%) Network Security
6 3 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.17%) VPN
7 2 (1.45%) Broadband
7 2 (1.45%) Skype
7 2 (1.45%) WAN
7 2 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.72%) HTTP
8 1 (0.72%) Internet
8 1 (0.72%) RNC
8 1 (0.72%) SGSN
8 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.17%) Power BI
3 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.72%) GIS
4 1 (0.72%) MySQL
4 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.72%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Selenium
2 3 (2.17%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.72%) CMake
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 96 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.09%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (19.57%) Support Engineer
2 23 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 22 (15.94%) Desktop Engineer
3 22 (15.94%) Desktop Support
3 22 (15.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 21 (15.22%) Build Engineer
4 21 (15.22%) Windows Build Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Hardware Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
7 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (10.87%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (10.87%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (10.14%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (10.14%) Senior
9 14 (10.14%) Support Specialist
10 9 (6.52%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Administrator
11 7 (5.07%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 7 (5.07%) Systems Administrator
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.87%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.17%) XML
3 2 (1.45%) Itk
4 1 (0.72%) CNTK
4 1 (0.72%) CSS
4 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.72%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.72%) OpenVINO
4 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.09%) Driving Licence
2 16 (11.59%) PKI
2 16 (11.59%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.42%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.07%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.17%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.72%) BYOD
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (51.45%) Windows 10
2 68 (49.28%) Windows Server
3 55 (39.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 55 (39.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 50 (36.23%) Linux
5 37 (26.81%) Windows 7
6 34 (24.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (15.22%) Windows NT
8 13 (9.42%) Windows XP
9 8 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.90%) Unix
11 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.45%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (63.04%) ITIL
2 61 (44.20%) Customer Service
3 59 (42.75%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (28.99%) Release Management
5 38 (27.54%) Service Management
6 24 (17.39%) Agile
6 24 (17.39%) DevOps
7 22 (15.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (15.22%) Deployment Automation
9 20 (14.49%) Analytics
10 19 (13.77%) Software Testing
11 18 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
11 18 (13.04%) Hardware Maintenance
11 18 (13.04%) Project Management
11 18 (13.04%) Service Delivery
11 18 (13.04%) Software Deployment
12 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (11.59%) Log Analytics
13 16 (11.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 16 (11.59%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.99%) PowerShell
2 23 (16.67%) VBScript
3 17 (12.32%) C#
4 16 (11.59%) VB
5 15 (10.87%) Bicep
6 11 (7.97%) Python
7 6 (4.35%) SQL
8 2 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) F#
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (73.19%) Security Cleared
2 100 (72.46%) DV Cleared
3 52 (37.68%) Degree
4 30 (21.74%) SC Cleared
5 16 (11.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (9.42%) CCNA
6 13 (9.42%) CCNP
6 13 (9.42%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.72%) ACMT
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CEH
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (2.17%) GDPR
3 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (42.75%) Active Directory
2 39 (28.26%) Firmware
3 22 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (11.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (11.59%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (9.42%) Hyper-V
5 13 (9.42%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.45%) Docker
6 2 (1.45%) XenApp
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 92 (66.67%) SCCM
2 50 (36.23%) WSUS
3 33 (23.91%) SCOM
4 21 (15.22%) Sysprep
5 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (11.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (11.59%) Kubernetes
7 15 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (9.42%) NetBackup
8 13 (9.42%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.45%) Nessus
9 2 (1.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.72%) Ansible
10 1 (0.72%) Grafana
10 1 (0.72%) Graylog
10 1 (0.72%) Nagios
10 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 105 (76.09%) Microsoft
2 49 (35.51%) HP
3 24 (17.39%) VMware
4 16 (11.59%) Cisco
5 15 (10.87%) EMC
6 14 (10.14%) Oracle
7 13 (9.42%) 3PAR
7 13 (9.42%) Dell
7 13 (9.42%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (9.42%) Juniper
7 13 (9.42%) Palo Alto
7 13 (9.42%) Symantec
7 13 (9.42%) Veeam
8 10 (7.25%) Splunk
9 4 (2.90%) Citrix
10 3 (2.17%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.17%) Apple
10 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.45%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.72%) Mapinfo