Azure Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 73 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 19 37 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.62% 2.17% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 2.37% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 25
10th Percentile - £494 £440
25th Percentile £413 £603 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £453 £613 £613
90th Percentile £597 £656 £625
South East median daily rate £425 £599 £550
% change year-on-year -29.02% +8.86% -4.35%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,078 1,560 1,679
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 91.44% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 852 1,067
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £430 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 82 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £21.43 £17.38
25th Percentile £18.09 £55.80 £36.42
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +6.54% +122.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.59 £72.25
90th Percentile £85.80 £96.75 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham +3 14 £425 +21.43% 3
Reading -10 2 £700 +15.70% 2
Windsor - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Azure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, Azure 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 Berkshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (89.47%) DevOps
3 15 (78.95%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
4 12 (63.16%) Azure Storage
4 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (63.16%) SQL
4 12 (63.16%) ADO
5 11 (57.89%) PaaS
5 11 (57.89%) IaaS
5 11 (57.89%) Azure AKS
5 11 (57.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
8 5 (26.32%) Python
8 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
8 5 (26.32%) Terraform
8 5 (26.32%) Bicep
8 5 (26.32%) ARM Templates
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
9 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (21.05%) C#
10 3 (15.79%) .NET
10 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
10 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (15.79%) Bash

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (78.95%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (63.16%) Azure Storage
4 11 (57.89%) Azure AKS
4 11 (57.89%) IaaS
4 11 (57.89%) PaaS
5 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Table
7 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
8 2 (10.53%) GitHub
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) French Language
2 1 (5.26%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) ADO
2 5 (26.32%) ARM Templates
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.26%) PKI
1 1 (5.26%) Replication
1 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) Agile
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
8 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (5.26%) Data Science
8 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.26%) Information Security
8 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 1 (5.26%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Bicep
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) VB
5 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) SCOM
4 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media