Windows Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Windows
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 54 137 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 9.05% 11.49% 7.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.71% 84.05% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 117 59
10th Percentile £238 £205 £314
25th Percentile £466 £213 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -7.17% +12.86%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £675
90th Percentile - - £731
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £523
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.13% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - £56.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £58.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.45% -
75th Percentile - £62.25 £69.44
90th Percentile - £63.90 £76.60
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +17.33% -19.23%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 63 163 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 13.67% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 140 101
10th Percentile £228 £205 £325
25th Percentile £400 £213 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £542 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -7.83% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £638
90th Percentile - - £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £514
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £56.33 £49.00
25th Percentile - £56.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £60.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.60% -
75th Percentile - £65.94 £72.84
90th Percentile - £67.63 £77.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Reading

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.41%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
6 2 (3.70%) SaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Firewall
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) NGFW
2 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) LAN
3 1 (1.85%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (1.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) GIS
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.85%) Big Data
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.85%) HBase
3 1 (1.85%) HDInsight
3 1 (1.85%) Impala
3 1 (1.85%) Metadata
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Selenium
3 1 (1.85%) CMake
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.85%) Subversion
3 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (50.00%) Finance
2 26 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 26 (48.15%) Telecoms
3 25 (46.30%) Electronics
3 25 (46.30%) Manufacturing
3 25 (46.30%) Marketing
4 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (48.15%) Architect
2 21 (38.89%) Active Directory Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Solutions Consultant
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) SAML
1 2 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Axis
2 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) CNTK
2 1 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) OpenVINO
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.70%) Replication
2 2 (3.70%) SCADA
3 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.85%) CMDB
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) IoT
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.56%) Android
3 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.56%) Unix
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.85%) AIX
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (46.30%) Digital Marketing
2 25 (46.30%) Programme Management
3 24 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 22 (40.74%) Agile
5 21 (38.89%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.11%) DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (9.26%) Migration
9 4 (7.41%) SIEM
10 3 (5.56%) Analytics
10 3 (5.56%) Application Security
10 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (5.56%) Microservices
10 3 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) PowerShell
2 12 (22.22%) Python
3 9 (16.67%) Bash
4 5 (9.26%) SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) CISSP
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) CISM
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CCNA
5 1 (1.85%) CEH
5 1 (1.85%) CFCE
5 1 (1.85%) CISA
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) GCIH
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MCSE
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 27 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) XenApp
3 1 (1.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 3 (5.56%) Puppet
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) SAP
2 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) BMC
4 1 (1.85%) Citrix
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Nexthink
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Remedy
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk
4 1 (1.85%) StreamSets