Azure Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -24
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 14 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.73% 1.14% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.19% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 30
10th Percentile £413 £473 £423
25th Percentile £490 £488 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.96% +0.77%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £622
90th Percentile £638 £638 £689
South East median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,804 1,674 2,249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 95.01% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,071 1,447
10th Percentile £213 £325 £218
25th Percentile £378 £425 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £492
% change year-on-year - +1.57% +9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 55 38
10th Percentile £18.65 £17.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.15 £56.89 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% +195.51% -8.55%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.80 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.59 £79.83 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +137.50% -20.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in Berkshire

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Reading -15 13 £565 -3.83% 3
Newbury - 1 £575 -
Azure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (42.86%) Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 5 (35.71%) Linux
5 4 (28.57%) ARM Templates
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 4 (28.57%) Power BI
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 4 (28.57%) DNS
5 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Firewall
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Ab Initio
5 4 (28.57%) Degree
5 4 (28.57%) Release Management
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) SCOM
6 3 (21.43%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) WSUS
6 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database

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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.14%) AWS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) YAML
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) LangChain
4 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
1 3 (21.43%) Smart Meter
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) ETL
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) Release Management
3 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) ETL Development
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
3 3 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (21.43%) Log Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) RBAC
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Service Management
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bicep
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) VB
4 2 (14.29%) VBScript
5 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) SCOM
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Ab Initio
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow