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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 22 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 125 85 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.57% 8.15% 8.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 82.24% 62.50% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 64 91
10th Percentile £205 £359 £143
25th Percentile £213 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £601 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +14.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £608 £678 £628
90th Percentile - £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £533 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +1.52% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £50.89 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £55.97 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £65.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% - -
75th Percentile £59.50 £74.15 -
90th Percentile - £78.48 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.05 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.08% -7.69% +326.23%

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 152 136 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.85% 13.04% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 137
10th Percentile £205 £357 £258
25th Percentile £289 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% +31.25%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile - £701 £651
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £494
% change year-on-year -7.32% +3.80% +21.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £56.30 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £56.38 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - -
75th Percentile £64.13 £75.69 -
90th Percentile £66.90 £79.10 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £58.75 £66.58
% change year-on-year +4.85% -11.76% +138.39%

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 1 June 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 20 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 27 (21.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.20%) Azure
2 24 (19.20%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (16.80%) Entra ID
4 20 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (16.00%) Azure Storage
5 14 (11.20%) OCI
6 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.20%) AWS
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.40%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.40%) Serverless
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 38 (30.40%) Firewall
2 34 (27.20%) DHCP
2 34 (27.20%) DNS
3 15 (12.00%) LAN
4 14 (11.20%) SAN
5 4 (3.20%) Network Security
6 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.40%) VPN
7 2 (1.60%) Broadband
7 2 (1.60%) WAN
7 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.80%) HTTP
8 1 (0.80%) Internet
8 1 (0.80%) RNC
8 1 (0.80%) SGSN
8 1 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) GIS
4 1 (0.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.80%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Selenium
2 3 (2.40%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.60%) Git
4 1 (0.80%) CMake
4 1 (0.80%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.80%) JIRA
4 1 (0.80%) MSI
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 85 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.80%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.80%) Games
5 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Support Engineer
2 20 (16.00%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Windows Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Build Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Desktop Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Desktop Support
4 17 (13.60%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Windows Build Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (11.20%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (11.20%) Hardware Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Support Specialist
6 13 (10.40%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
6 13 (10.40%) Senior
7 10 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Security Specialist
8 6 (4.80%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (4.80%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.40%) XML
3 2 (1.60%) Itk
4 1 (0.80%) CNTK
4 1 (0.80%) CSS
4 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.80%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.80%) OpenVINO
4 1 (0.80%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) Driving Licence
2 21 (16.80%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (16.00%) PKI
4 14 (11.20%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.40%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) PlayStation
8 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (55.20%) Windows Server
2 59 (47.20%) Windows 10
3 58 (46.40%) Windows Server 2016
3 58 (46.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (43.20%) Linux
5 32 (25.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 28 (22.40%) Windows 7
7 17 (13.60%) Windows NT
8 14 (11.20%) Windows XP
9 9 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (3.20%) Unix
11 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (62.40%) ITIL
2 48 (38.40%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (36.80%) Customer Service
4 41 (32.80%) Release Management
5 38 (30.40%) Service Management
6 30 (24.00%) DevOps
7 28 (22.40%) Agile
8 23 (18.40%) Analytics
9 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 20 (16.00%) Identity Management
9 20 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.00%) Log Analytics
9 20 (16.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (16.00%) Privileged Identity Management
9 20 (16.00%) RBAC
10 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (13.60%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (13.60%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (12.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.60%) PowerShell
2 28 (22.40%) VBScript
3 21 (16.80%) C#
4 20 (16.00%) Bicep
4 20 (16.00%) VB
5 12 (9.60%) Python
6 6 (4.80%) SQL
7 2 (1.60%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) Bash
8 1 (0.80%) C++
8 1 (0.80%) F#
8 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (73.60%) Security Cleared
2 91 (72.80%) DV Cleared
3 53 (42.40%) Degree
4 35 (28.00%) SC Cleared
5 20 (16.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (11.20%) CCNA
6 14 (11.20%) CCNP
6 14 (11.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CEH
7 1 (0.80%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (44.80%) Active Directory
2 30 (24.00%) Firmware
3 24 (19.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (11.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (11.20%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (64.00%) SCCM
2 51 (40.80%) WSUS
3 36 (28.80%) SCOM
4 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (16.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (16.00%) Kubernetes
6 17 (13.60%) Sysprep
7 14 (11.20%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (11.20%) NetBackup
7 14 (11.20%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.60%) Nessus
8 2 (1.60%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.80%) Ansible
9 1 (0.80%) Grafana
9 1 (0.80%) Graylog
9 1 (0.80%) Nagios
9 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 95 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (32.00%) HP
3 24 (19.20%) VMware
4 17 (13.60%) Cisco
5 15 (12.00%) Oracle
6 14 (11.20%) 3PAR
6 14 (11.20%) Dell
6 14 (11.20%) EMC
6 14 (11.20%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (11.20%) Juniper
6 14 (11.20%) Palo Alto
6 14 (11.20%) Symantec
6 14 (11.20%) Veeam
7 9 (7.20%) Splunk
8 3 (2.40%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.60%) Apple
9 2 (1.60%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.60%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.60%) Citrix
10 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow