Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Storage
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 13 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.88% 0.79% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 2.52% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 19
10th Percentile - £500 £550
25th Percentile £413 £525 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -0.82% -9.63%
75th Percentile £540 £608 £615
90th Percentile £606 - £620
South East median daily rate £500 £565 £610
% change year-on-year -11.50% -7.38% -7.58%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure Storage falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 587 476 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.66% 31.34% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 298 379
10th Percentile £268 £365 £323
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +3.68% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.26 £27.00 £42.76
Median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £92.75 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.75 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Storage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in Berkshire

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -16 10 £459 -
Reading +8 3 £588 +3.98% 1
Azure Storage
South East

Azure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) PaaS
3 6 (46.15%) IaaS
4 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (15.38%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) NAS
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Postman
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Site Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ADO
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
2 2 (15.38%) Swagger
2 2 (15.38%) WSDL
2 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Storage Management
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) Runbook
4 3 (23.08%) Statistics
4 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (7.69%) API Design
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.69%) OOP
6 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) OCP
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) GDPR
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Data Guard
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (15.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) EMC
1 4 (30.77%) NetApp
1 4 (30.77%) Pure Storage
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat