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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 123 85 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.17% 8.12% 8.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.11% 62.96% 62.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 64 89
10th Percentile £205 £359 £142
25th Percentile £213 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £601 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +14.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £608 £678 £625
90th Percentile - £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £50.89 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £55.97 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £65.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% - -
75th Percentile £59.50 £74.15 -
90th Percentile - £78.48 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.05 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.22% +7.69% +317.87%

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 148 135 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.24% 12.89% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 98 138
10th Percentile £205 £356 £279
25th Percentile £313 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +12.12% +31.00%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £624
90th Percentile - £704 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £495 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +1.25% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £56.30 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £56.38 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - -
75th Percentile £64.13 £75.69 -
90th Percentile £66.90 £79.10 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £64.38 £66.58
% change year-on-year -4.31% -3.32% +83.68%

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Reading over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

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 21 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 25 (20.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.53%) Azure
2 25 (20.33%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (17.89%) Entra ID
4 21 (17.07%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (17.07%) Azure Storage
5 14 (11.38%) OCI
6 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (3.25%) AWS
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.44%) Serverless
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (31.71%) Firewall
2 35 (28.46%) DHCP
2 35 (28.46%) DNS
3 14 (11.38%) LAN
3 14 (11.38%) SAN
4 4 (3.25%) Network Security
5 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.44%) VPN
6 2 (1.63%) Broadband
6 2 (1.63%) WAN
6 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.81%) HTTP
7 1 (0.81%) Internet
7 1 (0.81%) RNC
7 1 (0.81%) SGSN
7 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.44%) Power BI
3 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.81%) GIS
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Selenium
2 3 (2.44%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.63%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) CMake
4 1 (0.81%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.81%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) MSI
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.51%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.32%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.81%) Games
5 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Support Engineer
2 21 (17.07%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Desktop Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Desktop Support
4 16 (13.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Windows Engineer
5 15 (12.20%) Build Engineer
5 15 (12.20%) Windows Build Engineer
6 14 (11.38%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (11.38%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (11.38%) Support Specialist
7 13 (10.57%) Hardware Engineer
7 13 (10.57%) Senior
8 12 (9.76%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 11 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Active Directory Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.44%) XML
3 2 (1.63%) Itk
4 1 (0.81%) CNTK
4 1 (0.81%) CSS
4 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.81%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.81%) OpenVINO
4 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.51%) Driving Licence
2 22 (17.89%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (17.07%) PKI
4 14 (11.38%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.50%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.44%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) PlayStation
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (55.28%) Windows Server
2 57 (46.34%) Windows Server 2016
2 57 (46.34%) Windows Server 2019
3 55 (44.72%) Linux
3 55 (44.72%) Windows 10
4 30 (24.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (21.14%) Windows 7
6 15 (12.20%) Windows NT
7 14 (11.38%) Windows XP
8 9 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.25%) Unix
10 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.98%) ITIL
2 46 (37.40%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (34.15%) Customer Service
4 40 (32.52%) Release Management
5 37 (30.08%) Service Management
6 31 (25.20%) DevOps
7 29 (23.58%) Agile
8 24 (19.51%) Analytics
9 21 (17.07%) CI/CD
9 21 (17.07%) Identity Management
9 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (17.07%) Log Analytics
9 21 (17.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (17.07%) Privileged Identity Management
9 21 (17.07%) RBAC
10 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (13.01%) Project Management
12 16 (13.01%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.02%) PowerShell
2 29 (23.58%) VBScript
3 22 (17.89%) C#
4 21 (17.07%) Bicep
4 21 (17.07%) VB
5 12 (9.76%) Python
6 6 (4.88%) SQL
7 2 (1.63%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Bash
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) F#
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (72.36%) Security Cleared
2 88 (71.54%) DV Cleared
3 53 (43.09%) Degree
4 36 (29.27%) SC Cleared
5 21 (17.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (11.38%) CCNA
6 14 (11.38%) CCNP
6 14 (11.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CEH
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (44.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (21.95%) Firmware
3 24 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (17.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (17.07%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (11.38%) Hyper-V
5 14 (11.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 77 (62.60%) SCCM
2 50 (40.65%) WSUS
3 37 (30.08%) SCOM
4 22 (17.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (17.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (17.07%) Kubernetes
6 15 (12.20%) Sysprep
7 14 (11.38%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (11.38%) NetBackup
7 14 (11.38%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.63%) Nessus
8 2 (1.63%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.81%) Ansible
9 1 (0.81%) Grafana
9 1 (0.81%) Graylog
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 92 (74.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (30.89%) HP
3 24 (19.51%) VMware
4 17 (13.82%) Cisco
5 15 (12.20%) Oracle
6 14 (11.38%) 3PAR
6 14 (11.38%) Dell
6 14 (11.38%) EMC
6 14 (11.38%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (11.38%) Juniper
6 14 (11.38%) Palo Alto
6 14 (11.38%) Symantec
6 14 (11.38%) Veeam
7 9 (7.32%) Splunk
8 3 (2.44%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.63%) Apple
9 2 (1.63%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.63%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.63%) Citrix
10 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow