Microsoft Contracts in Windsor

Microsoft
Berkshire > Windsor

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Windsor 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 19 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Windsor 31.67% 2.44% 7.69%
As % of the Vendors category 59.38% 7.14% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% +16.67%

All Vendors
Windsor

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 Windsor.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 32 14 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Windsor 53.33% 34.15% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 0 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £483 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 - £475
90th Percentile £600 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Windsor

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Windsor

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Windsor

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Windsor

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Daily Rate Histogram in Windsor

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Windsor

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Windsor

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Windsor

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Windsor 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.53%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Premiere
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) SaaS
4 4 (21.05%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) IaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) Metadata
2 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) ERwin
1 4 (21.05%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Data Modeller
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) OpenID
2 2 (10.53%) SAML
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Video Editing
3 1 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (21.05%) API Management
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
5 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (21.05%) Data Science
5 4 (21.05%) Data Security
5 4 (21.05%) Open Source
5 4 (21.05%) Physical Data Model
5 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
4 4 (21.05%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 2 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.26%) Bicep
7 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe