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 25 July 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
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 37 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 19.47% 18.67% 10.13%
As % of the Vendors category 38.54% 35.00% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 4
10th Percentile - £458 £308
25th Percentile £350 £461 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £482 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +28.53% -14.58%
75th Percentile £535 £546 £516
90th Percentile £581 £599 £679
Berkshire median daily rate £476 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -8.85% -0.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £23.69 £58.02 £22.50
% change year-on-year -59.18% +157.88% -65.38%

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 96 40 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 50.53% 53.33% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 36 22
10th Percentile £350 £325 £302
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £482 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -5.95% +16.74%
75th Percentile £535 £581 £688
90th Percentile £596 £611 £855
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £561 £529
% change year-on-year -6.46% +6.20% +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.75 £58.30 £58.75
% change year-on-year -64.41% -0.77% +38.24%

Microsoft
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 25 July 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 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
4 6 (16.22%) Azure AKS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Storage
5 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Table
6 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.41%) AWS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.41%) IaaS
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) DHCP
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.70%) SMTP
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Power BI
2 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Parquet
3 1 (2.70%) Power Query
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Electronics
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Architect
2 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Developer
2 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Site Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Trainee
2 3 (8.11%) Trainee Technician
3 2 (5.41%) Consultant
3 2 (5.41%) Coordinator
3 2 (5.41%) Lead
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (5.41%) Project Leader
3 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
3 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Technical Coordinator
3 2 (5.41%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) .NET
1 5 (13.51%) .NET Core
2 4 (10.81%) ARM Templates
3 3 (8.11%) ADO
3 3 (8.11%) REST
4 2 (5.41%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OpenID
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) CSOC
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
4 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
5 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.81%) Identity Management
6 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.11%) Incident Response
7 3 (8.11%) Mathematics
7 3 (8.11%) Physics
7 3 (8.11%) Project Management
7 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (24.32%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Bicep
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 3 (8.11%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.70%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) CEH
2 2 (5.41%) CISM
2 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) GIAC
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) XenApp
3 1 (2.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.11%) Grafana
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.70%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.70%) SCCM
6 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) VMware
2 2 (5.41%) Intel
2 2 (5.41%) Proofpoint
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Dell
3 1 (2.70%) HP
3 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce