Microsoft Contracts in Slough

Microsoft
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 21 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 29.58% 14.47% 5.08%
As % of the Vendors category 52.50% 21.57% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile £163 £218 £340
25th Percentile £256 £300 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.95% +11.64%
75th Percentile - £538 £562
90th Percentile - £568 £635
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £11.79 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.84% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.03% +45.75% -46.67%

All Vendors
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 40 51 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 56.34% 67.11% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 59
10th Percentile £216 £280 £275
25th Percentile £363 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £405
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.41% -12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £473
90th Percentile £605 £600 £583
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 £11.79 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.16% -52.84% +8.70%
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £63.00
% change year-on-year -26.63% -7.46% +26.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Slough

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Slough

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Daily Rate Histogram in Slough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Slough over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Slough

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Slough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) ATM
1 16 (76.19%) Ethernet
1 16 (76.19%) Frame Relay
1 16 (76.19%) GPRS
1 16 (76.19%) GSM
1 16 (76.19%) LAN
1 16 (76.19%) LTE
1 16 (76.19%) MPLS
1 16 (76.19%) SAN
1 16 (76.19%) SDH
1 16 (76.19%) UMTS
1 16 (76.19%) VPN
1 16 (76.19%) WAN
1 16 (76.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
General
1 17 (80.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (76.19%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) IP Engineer
2 14 (66.67%) Test Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IP Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Business Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
1 16 (76.19%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Project Management
2 16 (76.19%) Fault Management
2 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (76.19%) Regression Testing
2 16 (76.19%) Test Strategy
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (4.76%) Event Correlation
3 1 (4.76%) Incident Response
3 1 (4.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (4.76%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations
3 1 (4.76%) SIEM
3 1 (4.76%) SOAR
3 1 (4.76%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (4.76%) System Testing
3 1 (4.76%) Threat Detection
3 1 (4.76%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) CCNP
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (76.19%) ISEB
1 16 (76.19%) ISTQB
1 16 (76.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) GCFA
2 1 (4.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco
1 16 (76.19%) Juniper
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow