Microsoft Certification Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 108 107
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.78% 0.10% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.21% 0.22% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - £291 £534
25th Percentile £130 £334 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £413 £566
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -27.15% +13.25%
75th Percentile £663 £484 £592
90th Percentile £685 £524 £600
South East median daily rate £540 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +16.76% -15.91% +15.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 408 894 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.51% 45.59% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 420 306
10th Percentile £313 £279 £343
25th Percentile £433 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £718 £709
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 96 42
10th Percentile £27.81 £41.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £42.91 £54.50 £49.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.34
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.72% +211.13%
75th Percentile £87.38 £85.65 £75.50
90th Percentile £88.87 £88.77 £80.14
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.64% -4.42% +33.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
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 Microsoft Certification within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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 +39 4 £390 +41.82% 27
Wokingham - 3 - - 1
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Table
4 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Architect
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (33.33%) ADO
1 3 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) Bicep
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 3 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 3 (33.33%) MCSA
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (11.11%) MCSE
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) VCP5
4 1 (11.11%) VCP6
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam