Microsoft Contracts in Wokingham

Microsoft
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 16 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 27.59% 9.76% 14.81%
As % of the Vendors category 43.24% 15.69% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 2
10th Percentile £453 £308 £147
25th Percentile £460 £319 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £215
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £588 £516 £258
90th Percentile £713 £679 £283
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +0.84%

All Vendors
Wokingham

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 51 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 63.79% 62.20% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 5
10th Percentile £310 £312 £198
25th Percentile £347 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £300
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +91.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £550
90th Percentile £611 £788 £573
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £60.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +43.24% +23.19%

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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 June 2024.

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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) IaaS
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) PMI
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) ITSM
2 6 (37.50%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (25.00%) GitOps
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Open Source
4 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) C#
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) PHP
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Argo
2 4 (25.00%) Grafana
2 4 (25.00%) Istio
2 4 (25.00%) Kibana
2 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks