Azure Specialist Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in Reading is £605 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 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 25 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 25 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £603 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - -
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 - £550

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in Reading

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 25 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 15 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 15 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (60.00%) Log Analytics
2 15 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (60.00%) RBAC
2 15 (60.00%) PKI
2 15 (60.00%) DHCP
2 15 (60.00%) DNS
2 15 (60.00%) WSUS
2 15 (60.00%) Release Management
2 15 (60.00%) SCCM
2 15 (60.00%) SCOM
2 15 (60.00%) Service Management
2 15 (60.00%) Firewall
2 15 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 15 (60.00%) C#
2 15 (60.00%) VBScript
2 15 (60.00%) VB
2 15 (60.00%) ITIL
2 15 (60.00%) Windows

Azure Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 15 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 14 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) DHCP
1 15 (60.00%) DNS
1 15 (60.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Axure RP
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) PKI
1 15 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 14 (56.00%) Windows Server
2 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
1 15 (60.00%) Analytics
1 15 (60.00%) Identity Management
1 15 (60.00%) ITIL
1 15 (60.00%) Log Analytics
1 15 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 15 (60.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 15 (60.00%) RBAC
1 15 (60.00%) Release Management
1 15 (60.00%) Service Management
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) C#
1 15 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 15 (60.00%) VB
1 15 (60.00%) VBScript
2 14 (56.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (56.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 25 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (60.00%) SCCM
1 15 (60.00%) SCOM
1 15 (60.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft