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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 83
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -12
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 49 40 27
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.58% 3.48% 1.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 37.40% 31.75% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 9
10th Percentile £340 £221 £393
25th Percentile £490 £347 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £471 £508
Median % change year-on-year +19.89% -7.23% -18.72%
75th Percentile £660 £547 £600
90th Percentile £759 £592 £668
South East median daily rate £475 £493 £460
% change year-on-year -3.55% +7.07% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £20.50 - £20.08
25th Percentile £28.13 - £23.96
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.05 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +3.97% -61.07%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £54.37
90th Percentile £35.22 - £68.25
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £32.05 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.40% +28.20% -31.03%

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 131 126 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.90% 10.97% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 62 60
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £411 £350 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -6.51% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £673 £607 £609
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% -8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 4
10th Percentile £20.88 - £21.37
25th Percentile £24.81 £32.05 £27.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £32.91
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +89.90% -47.76%
75th Percentile £33.75 £71.50 £45.63
90th Percentile £35.07 £76.60 £64.75
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% -4.55% -

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 1 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SharePoint in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SharePoint in Berkshire

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 1 July 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 -25 26 £550 +4.76% 10
Wokingham -21 7 £575 +13.02% 1
Bracknell +4 3 £613 -
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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.04%) InfoPath
4 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (46.94%) Azure
3 14 (28.57%) OneDrive
4 11 (22.45%) Power Platform
5 10 (20.41%) AWS
6 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
7 6 (12.24%) PowerApps
8 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (6.12%) SaaS
9 3 (6.12%) Serverless
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.08%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (4.08%) GitHub
10 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (4.08%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) DHCP
1 10 (20.41%) DNS
1 10 (20.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) Intranet
2 1 (2.04%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Local Government
3 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Advertising
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
4 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) IT Support
2 9 (18.37%) Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Architect
3 3 (6.12%) Consultant
3 3 (6.12%) Coordinator
3 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
3 3 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (6.12%) Project Coordinator
3 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.12%) Service Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Service Delivery Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Administration Assistant
4 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Developer
4 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (4.08%) Platform Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (4.08%) Security Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) ADO
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.04%) iPad
5 1 (2.04%) iPhone
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.57%) Windows
2 11 (22.45%) Apple iOS
3 10 (20.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.65%) ITIL
3 13 (26.53%) AI
3 13 (26.53%) Customer Service
3 13 (26.53%) Data Protection
3 13 (26.53%) ITSM
4 12 (24.49%) User Experience
5 11 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (20.41%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (20.41%) Time Management
7 7 (14.29%) DevOps
7 7 (14.29%) Project Management
8 6 (12.24%) Migration
8 6 (12.24%) PRINCE2
8 6 (12.24%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.20%) Agile
9 5 (10.20%) Service Management
9 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Degree
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.04%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GRC
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 31000
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (20.41%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (8.16%) SCCM
4 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.53%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco
4 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Apple
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.04%) McAfee
5 1 (2.04%) Starlink
5 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media