Microsoft Contracts in Bracknell

Microsoft
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bracknell requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 66 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 8.33% 23.40% 24.54%
As % of the Vendors category 15.79% 46.48% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 6
10th Percentile £201 - £164
25th Percentile £329 - £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £114 £450
Median % change year-on-year +287.39% -74.76% +5.88%
75th Percentile £504 £375 -
90th Percentile £547 £409 -
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Median hourly rate £32.05 £62.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +376.92% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -45.03% +133.20% -66.67%

All Vendors
Bracknell

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 38 142 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 52.78% 50.35% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 51 35
10th Percentile £400 £114 £280
25th Percentile £463 £263 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £398 £515
Median % change year-on-year +38.36% -22.82% +17.71%
75th Percentile £599 £519 £600
90th Percentile £620 £600 £606
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £25.98 £45.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £32.05 £51.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.78 £62.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +113.79% -57.86%
75th Percentile £57.44 - £45.81
90th Percentile £72.90 - £54.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Bracknell

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Bracknell.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Bracknell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bracknell

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Bracknell

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Bracknell.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Bracknell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bracknell 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 2 (33.33%) CMS
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Development Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (33.33%) Learning Management System
2 2 (33.33%) Life Science
2 2 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform