Windows Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 116 204 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.89% 10.28% 7.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.96% 75.00% 56.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 159 92
10th Percentile £209 £205 £185
25th Percentile £356 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.13% +6.63%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £625
90th Percentile - £608 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £56.50 £24.90
25th Percentile - £57.78 £42.38
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile - - £76.59
90th Percentile - £63.30 £83.21
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £22.55 £29.00
% change year-on-year -16.54% -22.24% +48.72%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
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 Windows within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading -3 54 £650 +18.18% 56
Wokingham +2 34 £475 +35.71% 6
Maidenhead +10 11 - - 10
Windsor -8 6 £500 - 3
Slough -2 5 £194 +1.97% 36
Bracknell -1 1 - - 6
Windows
South East

Windows
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 6 (5.17%) IIS
2 4 (3.45%) Apache
2 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.28%) Azure
2 15 (12.93%) AWS
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.31%) GitHub
7 4 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.59%) GCP
8 3 (2.59%) SaaS
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.86%) IaaS
10 1 (0.86%) PaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.66%) DNS
2 12 (10.34%) DHCP
3 11 (9.48%) SMTP
4 8 (6.90%) Firewall
5 7 (6.03%) Network Security
6 6 (5.17%) FTP
6 6 (5.17%) NetScaler
6 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.17%) Telnet
7 4 (3.45%) VPN
8 3 (2.59%) NGFW
9 2 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.72%) SSL
10 1 (0.86%) Internet
10 1 (0.86%) LAN
10 1 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.86%) WAN
10 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) Big Data
2 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.72%) GIS
3 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.86%) HBase
4 1 (0.86%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.86%) Impala
4 1 (0.86%) Metadata
4 1 (0.86%) Power BI
4 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) Selenium
3 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.86%) CMake
5 1 (0.86%) MSI
5 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.86%) Subversion
5 1 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (27.59%) Finance
2 29 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 27 (23.28%) Telecoms
4 26 (22.41%) Manufacturing
5 25 (21.55%) Electronics
5 25 (21.55%) Marketing
6 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (26.72%) Architect
2 21 (18.10%) Active Directory Architect
3 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) Desktop Support
5 6 (5.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) Lead
5 6 (5.17%) Security Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) Consultant
7 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (3.45%) Tester
8 3 (2.59%) Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) Apache Axis
1 3 (2.59%) SAML
2 2 (1.72%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.72%) SOAP
3 1 (0.86%) CNTK
3 1 (0.86%) Kafka
3 1 (0.86%) LDAP
3 1 (0.86%) OpenVINO
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.86%) PySpark
3 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.76%) PKI
2 9 (7.76%) SCADA
3 7 (6.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) Clustering
4 5 (4.31%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Replication
7 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.86%) CMDB
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.76%) Linux
1 38 (32.76%) Windows Server
2 17 (14.66%) Windows 10
3 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.31%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (3.45%) Android
5 4 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.45%) Unix
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.59%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.86%) AIX
8 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.28%) Test Automation
2 26 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (21.55%) Agile
3 25 (21.55%) Digital Marketing
3 25 (21.55%) Programme Management
4 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (18.97%) Identity Access Management
6 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (11.21%) DevOps
8 11 (9.48%) ITIL
9 10 (8.62%) High Availability
9 10 (8.62%) Migration
10 8 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (6.90%) CI/CD
11 7 (6.03%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.03%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (6.03%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (5.17%) SIEM
13 5 (4.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 59 (50.86%) PowerShell
2 20 (17.24%) Python
3 14 (12.07%) SQL
4 10 (8.62%) Perl
5 9 (7.76%) Bash
5 9 (7.76%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.31%) C#
8 3 (2.59%) Java
9 2 (1.72%) Bicep
9 2 (1.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) VB
10 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (49.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.45%) DV Cleared
3 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) Degree
5 7 (6.03%) CISSP
6 4 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.72%) CEH
7 2 (1.72%) CISM
7 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) CCNA
8 1 (0.86%) CFCE
8 1 (0.86%) CISA
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) GCIH
8 1 (0.86%) GIAC
8 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.86%) MCSE
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
3 2 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.86%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.17%) NFS
4 6 (5.17%) XenApp
4 6 (5.17%) XenDesktop
5 5 (4.31%) vSphere
6 4 (3.45%) Samba
7 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.86%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.86%) Docker
8 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.76%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) Ansible
4 6 (5.17%) WSUS
5 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (4.31%) SCCM
6 4 (3.45%) NetBackup
6 4 (3.45%) Puppet
6 4 (3.45%) yum
7 3 (2.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.72%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.86%) CASB
9 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 28 (24.14%) VMware
3 25 (21.55%) SAP
4 18 (15.52%) Dell
5 9 (7.76%) HP
5 9 (7.76%) Wyse
6 6 (5.17%) Citrix
6 6 (5.17%) Databricks
7 4 (3.45%) 3PAR
7 4 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.45%) Veritas
8 3 (2.59%) BMC
8 3 (2.59%) Oracle
8 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.72%) Google
9 2 (1.72%) Splunk
10 1 (0.86%) Altiris
10 1 (0.86%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.86%) Symantec