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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 102 119
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 23 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.82% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.94% 0.46% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 4
10th Percentile - £352 £410
25th Percentile £219 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 £440 £625
Median % change year-on-year -41.25% -29.60% +12.36%
75th Percentile £584 £495 £700
90th Percentile £645 £528 -
South East median daily rate £509 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +27.13% -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 466 656 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.93% 40.39% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 356 436
10th Percentile £255 £291 £210
25th Percentile £400 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £562 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +6.95% -1.69%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £635 £724 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.14% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 55 49
10th Percentile £20.43 £41.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £22.97 £55.87 £52.19
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.60 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -34.36% -2.67% +169.32%
75th Percentile £68.50 £75.13 £72.33
90th Percentile £88.87 £100.00 £75.76
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% +33.33%

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 23 October 2025.

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
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 23 October 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
Wokingham -4 13 £238 -27.88%
Reading - 6 £603 - 20
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
4 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 11 (47.83%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.35%) Firewall
4 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Support Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.70%) ADO
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (56.52%) ITIL
3 12 (52.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (47.83%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (47.83%) Service Management
4 11 (47.83%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) Change Management
6 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
6 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bicep
3 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Azure Certification
2 11 (47.83%) Network+ Certification
2 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) Server+ Certification
3 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.35%) MCSA
5 1 (4.35%) MCSE
5 1 (4.35%) OCP
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.35%) VCP5
5 1 (4.35%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (52.17%) Hyper-V
3 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.70%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) NFS
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (8.70%) Grafana
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.70%) SCCM
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (60.87%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Veeam