Microsoft Certification Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Certification
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 57 90 84
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.084% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.65% 0.19% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £187 - £564
25th Percentile £273 £263 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £275 £588
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -53.19% +130.39%
75th Percentile £558 £288 £600
90th Percentile £643 - £604
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £198 £558
% change year-on-year +165.82% -64.57% +48.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware