Microsoft Contracts in Maidenhead

Microsoft
Berkshire > Maidenhead

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Maidenhead 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 4 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 5 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Maidenhead 21.74% 15.25% 11.54%
As % of the Vendors category 27.78% 28.13% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £505 £405 -
25th Percentile £513 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +67.74%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - £703 -
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% +16.67%

All Vendors
Maidenhead

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 Maidenhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18 32 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidenhead 78.26% 54.24% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 14
10th Percentile £505 £235 £423
25th Percentile £513 £266 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £620
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -39.52% +37.78%
75th Percentile - £438 £643
90th Percentile - £564 £701
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
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 Maidenhead

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Maidenhead

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Maidenhead

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Maidenhead

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Maidenhead

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Maidenhead

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidenhead 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Responder
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks