Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in Reading

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Reading is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.084% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,113 996 1,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.68% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 664 884
10th Percentile £213 £363 £181
25th Percentile £413 £453 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £651 £595
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.45 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.20 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Azure Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in Reading

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in Reading

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Azure Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow