SharePoint Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft SharePoint
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SharePoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 56 95
Rank change year-on-year -10 +39 -22
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 48 34 27
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.67% 2.92% 1.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 37.50% 30.91% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 10
10th Percentile £295 £213 £393
25th Percentile £475 £260 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.91% -20.96%
75th Percentile £650 £519 £579
90th Percentile £670 £594 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - - £20.08
25th Percentile £31.25 - £23.96
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.05 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +3.97% -61.07%
75th Percentile £34.12 - £54.37
90th Percentile £34.78 - £68.25
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £32.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +60.25% -63.64%

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

SharePoint falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 128 110 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.12% 9.43% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 57 56
10th Percentile £358 £279 £311
25th Percentile £405 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £508
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.42% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £652 £596 -
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £434
% change year-on-year +0.50% +15.27% -13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £27.75 - £22.67
25th Percentile £31.25 - £30.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.05 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -8.43% -50.77%
75th Percentile £34.85 - £65.00
90th Percentile £58.61 - £72.50
South East median hourly rate £37.12 £53.69 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.86% +53.39% -39.13%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

SharePoint job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SharePoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint in Berkshire

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SharePoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SharePoint

SharePoint
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 SharePoint within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Reading -6 27 £563 +25.00% 6
Wokingham -21 9 £575 +13.02%
Bracknell +2 6 £575 -
Hungerford - 3 - -
SharePoint
South East

SharePoint
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 8 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
1 21 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 7 (14.58%) Power Automate
6 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (12.50%) PowerApps
7 5 (10.42%) SaaS
8 4 (8.33%) AWS
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (6.25%) GitHub
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DHCP
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) Power BI
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.17%) Metadata
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
General
1 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Local Government
8 1 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.08%) Finance
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Project Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) E-Discovery Specialist
3 4 (8.33%) Administrator
3 4 (8.33%) Architect
3 4 (8.33%) Coordinator
3 4 (8.33%) Integration Manager
3 4 (8.33%) IT Support
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) Consultant
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle Project Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Platform Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Power Platform Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (4.17%) Administration Assistant
5 2 (4.17%) Junior
5 2 (4.17%) Mobile Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Strategy Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) ADO
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (27.08%) DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) PRINCE2
5 8 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 7 (14.58%) Agile
6 7 (14.58%) AI
6 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
6 7 (14.58%) ITIL
7 6 (12.50%) E-Discovery
7 6 (12.50%) Project Management
7 6 (12.50%) User Experience
8 5 (10.42%) Contingency Planning
8 5 (10.42%) Customer Service
8 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (10.42%) E-business
8 5 (10.42%) Matrix Organization
8 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.33%) Data Modelling
9 4 (8.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Degree
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.33%) PMP
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) PMO
2 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) GRC
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.17%) SLA
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 31000
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (47.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) VMware
6 1 (2.08%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Virgin Media