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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 79 116
Rank change year-on-year -37 +37 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% 0.89% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 2.45% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 £130 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £525 £275
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +90.91% -50.67%
75th Percentile £474 - £288
90th Percentile - £630 -
South East median daily rate £275 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -47.62% +13.51% -15.91%

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 809 408 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 44.30% 36.46% 43.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 239 407
10th Percentile £300 £323 £213
25th Percentile £375 £434 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £613 £641 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 20 79
10th Percentile £31.25 £32.05 £41.45
25th Percentile £73.00 £60.31 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% +13.64% -5.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £81.76 £75.24
90th Percentile £104.05 £89.23 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -1.57% -2.57% -3.54%

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
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 27 May 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
Wokingham -25 1 - - 1
Reading -26 1 £467 +259.23% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Wonderware