Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends 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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 73 104
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 16 20 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.88% 1.69% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% 4.95% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 2
10th Percentile £304 £166 £352
25th Percentile £378 £219 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £238 £440
Median % change year-on-year +110.08% -45.91% -29.60%
75th Percentile £644 £359 £495
90th Percentile £650 £653 £528
South East median daily rate £319 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -29.17% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.38 - -
Median hourly rate £17.64 - -
75th Percentile £56.85 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £89.63 -
% change year-on-year -57.32% - -

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 834 404 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.85% 34.15% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 257 382
10th Percentile £377 £269 £315
25th Percentile £500 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -14.09% +10.86%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £650
90th Percentile £775 £652 £735
South East median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 16 64
10th Percentile £27.84 £25.95 £41.91
25th Percentile £61.74 £31.57 £56.36
Median hourly rate £83.00 £40.44 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +105.27% -34.36% -5.41%
75th Percentile £100.00 £87.31 £75.80
90th Percentile £104.90 £88.87 £99.25
South East median hourly rate £61.33 £25.15 £58.30
% change year-on-year +143.86% -56.86% -2.83%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 September 2026. 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 -24 7 £638 +43.26% 6
Wokingham -17 5 £313 +31.30%
Bracknell - 4 - - 2
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) NetScaler
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (6.25%) LAN
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) IT Support
1 4 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (25.00%) IT Technician
1 4 (25.00%) Support Technician
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Wintel Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
2 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (31.25%) ITSM
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (25.00%) Service Management
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (31.25%) Degree
4 5 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (25.00%) DBS Check
5 4 (25.00%) MCITP
5 4 (25.00%) MCSE
6 3 (18.75%) CCA
6 3 (18.75%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (18.75%) MCSA
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
4 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) SCOM
2 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Istio
3 2 (12.50%) vMotion
4 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 3 (18.75%) Remedy
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) SAP