Microsoft Office Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Office
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 45 26
Rank change year-on-year -31 -19 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft Office 21 66 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.78% 3.88% 6.75%
As % of the Applications category 26.25% 43.14% 55.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 58
10th Percentile £117 £84 £148
25th Percentile £153 £193 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £234 £255
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -8.24% -7.27%
75th Percentile £450 £450 £450
90th Percentile £600 £545 £529
South East median daily rate £250 £350 £265
% change year-on-year -28.57% +32.33% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile - £11.79 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.27 -
Median hourly rate £14.30 £28.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.93% +100.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £32.05 £43.75 £17.84
90th Percentile - £55.11 £18.84
South East median hourly rate £14.20 £32.91 £16.00
% change year-on-year -56.86% +105.70% +10.34%

All Software Application Skills
Berkshire

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 80 153 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.77% 8.99% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 78 116
10th Percentile £136 £175 £153
25th Percentile £240 £200 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £370 £387
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -4.45% +6.10%
75th Percentile £497 £538 £491
90th Percentile £618 £779 £638
South East median daily rate £354 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -11.50% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.79 -
25th Percentile £14.15 £17.01 £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £29.41 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% +58.99% -17.78%
75th Percentile £32.18 £46.59 £23.25
90th Percentile £38.39 £62.98 £35.00
South East median hourly rate £15.25 £24.50 £21.11
% change year-on-year -37.76% +16.06% +8.26%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Berkshire

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Berkshire

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Berkshire

Microsoft Office
DemandTrendContract 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 Office within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -11 6 £178 -17.44% 30
Bracknell +5 5 £400 - 1
Wokingham - 4 £600 - 1
Maidenhead +3 1 - - 5
Windsor -3 1 - - 1
Slough -10 1 £450 +66.67% 38
Microsoft Office
South East

Microsoft Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) CMS
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) IaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) PaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) 2G
1 1 (4.76%) 3G
1 1 (4.76%) 4G
1 1 (4.76%) 5G
1 1 (4.76%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Electronics
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Agriculture
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 3 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (14.29%) Trainee
2 3 (14.29%) Trainee Technician
3 2 (9.52%) Customer Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Customer Service Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Development Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Graduate
4 1 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Project Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Radio Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (14.29%) Life Science
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Learning Management System
3 2 (9.52%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (28.57%) Change Management
3 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
4 4 (19.05%) Deadline-Driven
4 4 (19.05%) Project Governance
5 3 (14.29%) Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 3 (14.29%) Computer Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Content Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (14.29%) Physics
5 3 (14.29%) Risk Register
5 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Time Management
6 2 (9.52%) Business Case
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Document Management
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Ericsson
2 1 (4.76%) Huawei
2 1 (4.76%) Nokia
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow