Microsoft Contracts in Wokingham

Microsoft
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham 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 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 29 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 16.38% 21.43% 9.72%
As % of the Vendors category 35.80% 31.25% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 3
10th Percentile £350 £455 £325
25th Percentile £405 £475 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £606
90th Percentile £582 £750 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.30 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -45.03% +133.20% -66.67%

All Vendors
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 81 48 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 45.76% 68.57% 63.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 25
10th Percentile £350 £301 £306
25th Percentile £400 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -20.25% -2.04%
75th Percentile £542 £579 -
90th Percentile £608 £620 £788
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.10
25th Percentile - - £46.06
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Wokingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Wokingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Wokingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Wokingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 5 (17.24%) IIS
2 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
4 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Storage
7 2 (6.90%) Azure App Service
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Table
7 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (6.90%) IaaS
7 2 (6.90%) PaaS
7 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.45%) AWS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) NetScaler
2 5 (17.24%) SMTP
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 4 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Parquet
3 1 (3.45%) Power Query
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Electronics
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Project Leader
3 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Security Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
1 4 (13.79%) .NET Core
2 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.34%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) ADO
3 2 (6.90%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) SAML
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) OpenID
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) PKI
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) CSOC
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) PMI
4 1 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (20.69%) DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Analytics
3 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.90%) Agile
5 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) Bicep
3 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.45%) R
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.45%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CEH
3 1 (3.45%) CISM
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) GIAC
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) vSphere
2 5 (17.24%) XenApp
2 5 (17.24%) XenDesktop
3 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
1 5 (17.24%) WSUS
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) VMware
2 5 (17.24%) Citrix
2 5 (17.24%) Dell
2 5 (17.24%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Intel
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce