Microsoft Office Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Office
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office 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 48 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 12 78 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 6.54% 3.94%
As % of the Applications category 37.50% 67.24% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 49 26
10th Percentile £153 - £186
25th Percentile £211 £205 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £215 £412
Median % change year-on-year +86.28% -47.78% +13.32%
75th Percentile £450 £218 £523
90th Percentile £494 £463 £639
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £210 £384
% change year-on-year +90.60% -45.35% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £14.46 £17.80
25th Percentile - £15.64 £17.92
Median hourly rate - £17.60 £18.36
Median % change year-on-year - -4.14% +83.60%
75th Percentile - £35.68 £19.06
90th Percentile - £46.52 £19.32
Berkshire median hourly rate £28.36 £36.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.78% +90.79% -30.91%

All Software Application Skills
Reading

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 32 116 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 5.36% 9.73% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 74 65
10th Percentile £144 £190 £225
25th Percentile £210 £205 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £215 £425
Median % change year-on-year +74.42% -49.41% +30.77%
75th Percentile £450 £433 £550
90th Percentile £536 £517 £735
Berkshire median daily rate £413 £215 £400
% change year-on-year +91.86% -46.25% +12.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £11.27 £17.88
25th Percentile - £12.82 £18.11
Median hourly rate - £15.64 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.68% +16.92%
75th Percentile - £26.64 £32.25
90th Percentile - £42.91 £39.90
Berkshire median hourly rate £28.36 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.28% +112.50% -27.27%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Reading

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Reading

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Reading

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Reading

Microsoft Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (16.67%) 3G
2 2 (16.67%) 4G
2 2 (16.67%) 5G
2 2 (16.67%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) GGSN
2 2 (16.67%) LTE
2 2 (16.67%) RANAP
2 2 (16.67%) SGSN
2 2 (16.67%) VoLTE
2 2 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (8.33%) DWDM
3 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Multimedia
4 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) PMO Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planner
2 1 (8.33%) Coordinator
2 1 (8.33%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Customer Service Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Network Capacity Planner
2 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Network Planner
2 1 (8.33%) PMO Manager
2 1 (8.33%) PMO Planner
2 1 (8.33%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (8.33%) Project Planner
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Artefact Management
3 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Deadline-Driven
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 2 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Project Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Empirix
2 2 (16.67%) NetScout
3 1 (8.33%) Ciena
3 1 (8.33%) Cramer
3 1 (8.33%) Nokia
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow