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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 121 108
Rank change year-on-year +36 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.68% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.89% 0.34% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £249 £134 £389
25th Percentile £426 £156 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £198 £558
Median % change year-on-year +165.82% -64.57% +48.67%
75th Percentile £569 £246 £591
90th Percentile £648 £271 £599
South East median daily rate £565 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +25.56% -18.18% +29.41%

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 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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 May 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 May 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 +33 3 £415 +50.91% 19
Maidenhead - 2 £525 - 1
Wokingham - 2 - -
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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Table
4 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Responder
2 2 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCSA
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware