Azure Certification Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 116 102
Rank change year-on-year +35 -14 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 10 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.88% 0.20% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.50% 0.45% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £519 £454 £468
25th Percentile £559 £459 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +36.84%
75th Percentile £684 £538 £688
90th Percentile £694 £605 £694
South East median daily rate £525 £463 £588
% change year-on-year +13.51% -21.28% +11.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 400 897 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.15% 45.58% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 420 304
10th Percentile £313 £249 £341
25th Percentile £428 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £713
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 97 42
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £55.31 £55.04 £49.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -6.67% +214.29%
75th Percentile £87.44 £85.65 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.87 £88.52 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.15 £57.35 £60.82
% change year-on-year -12.55% -5.70% +35.14%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Berkshire

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Berkshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Berkshire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -1 6 £550 +18.92% 4
Reading +38 3 £650 - 8
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Table
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 5G
1 1 (10.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) VoIP
1 1 (10.00%) VoLTE
1 1 (10.00%) VoWiFi
1 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) ADO
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) B2B
4 2 (20.00%) B2C
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Bicep
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Snow
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) VMware