Azure Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 321 224 266
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 17.32% 19.08% 13.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.47% 56.28% 51.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 142 211
10th Percentile £327 £351 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% -8.33% +1.48%
75th Percentile £589 £623 £638
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -3.29% -6.00% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 10
10th Percentile £31.25 £38.70 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.31 £51.38 £56.65
Median hourly rate £92.50 £74.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +26.93% -26.38%
75th Percentile £103.81 £76.35 £61.60
90th Percentile £104.20 £76.85 -
South East median hourly rate £83.25 £52.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +57.82% +37.01% -48.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Berkshire

Azure 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 549 398 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.63% 33.90% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 246 356
10th Percentile £306 £325 £328
25th Percentile £401 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £617
90th Percentile £653 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 21
10th Percentile £28.95 £24.66 £20.49
25th Percentile £33.36 £29.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £32.05 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +157.41% -45.03% +150.21%
75th Percentile £100.42 £61.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.19 -
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +71.05% +22.77% -1.84%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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 -1 158 £425 -15.00% 11
Reading -2 142 £525 -8.70% 55
Windsor -10 4 £475 -5.00% 14
Bracknell -3 3 £450 -23.40% 4
Maidenhead - 3 £475 - 1
Slough +8 2 £538 -10.42% 10
Azure
South East

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.80%) Confluence
3 4 (1.25%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.62%) IIS
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.62%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.25%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 135 (42.06%) AWS
2 89 (27.73%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (22.43%) GCP
4 53 (16.51%) Entra ID
5 26 (8.10%) Power Platform
6 24 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (5.61%) OCI
9 15 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (4.67%) SaaS
10 14 (4.36%) Azure AKS
11 13 (4.05%) PaaS
12 11 (3.43%) IaaS
13 10 (3.12%) GitHub
14 9 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.49%) Azure Functions
15 8 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (2.49%) PowerApps
15 8 (2.49%) Serverless
16 7 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.08%) Firewall
2 34 (10.59%) DNS
3 32 (9.97%) DHCP
4 20 (6.23%) LAN
4 20 (6.23%) WAN
5 17 (5.30%) TCP/IP
5 17 (5.30%) VPN
6 16 (4.98%) Network Security
7 15 (4.67%) FTP
8 14 (4.36%) BGP
8 14 (4.36%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.74%) Wireless
10 10 (3.12%) OSPF
11 9 (2.80%) MPLS
12 7 (2.18%) SSL
12 7 (2.18%) VLAN
13 6 (1.87%) WLAN
14 4 (1.25%) IPsec
14 4 (1.25%) MQTT
15 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.23%) Power BI
2 10 (3.12%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (2.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.56%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.93%) Big Data
8 3 (0.93%) GIS
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.93%) Parquet
9 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.62%) Metadata
9 2 (0.62%) QGIS
9 2 (0.62%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (6.85%) Git
2 16 (4.98%) JIRA
3 14 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.74%) Burp Suite
4 12 (3.74%) Metasploit
5 5 (1.56%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.62%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
3 27 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.92%) Finance
5 16 (4.98%) Aerospace
6 12 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.18%) Retail
10 5 (1.56%) Billing
11 3 (0.93%) Police
12 2 (0.62%) Legal
12 2 (0.62%) Military
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.31%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (17.13%) Architect
2 38 (11.84%) Analyst
3 29 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
3 29 (9.03%) Senior
4 27 (8.41%) Lead
5 18 (5.61%) Developer
6 17 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.74%) Penetration Tester
10 11 (3.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.12%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.12%) Test Analyst
11 10 (3.12%) Tester
11 10 (3.12%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 9 (2.80%) Oracle Analyst
12 9 (2.80%) Platform Architect
12 9 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.61%) LDAP
2 16 (4.98%) ADO
3 15 (4.67%) REST
4 10 (3.12%) .NET
5 8 (2.49%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.18%) Middleware
7 6 (1.87%) Kafka
7 6 (1.87%) OAuth
7 6 (1.87%) SOAP
8 5 (1.56%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.56%) Pandas
8 5 (1.56%) pytest
8 5 (1.56%) RESTful
8 5 (1.56%) SAML
8 5 (1.56%) YAML
9 4 (1.25%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.25%) JSON
9 4 (1.25%) NETCONF
9 4 (1.25%) OpenAPI
9 4 (1.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.36%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.12%) PKI
5 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.80%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.18%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.56%) CMDB
9 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.31%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.69%) Windows
2 23 (7.17%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.30%) Linux
4 5 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Unix
7 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (47.35%) DevOps
2 90 (28.04%) CI/CD
3 72 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (19.63%) Cybersecurity
5 55 (17.13%) Agile
6 43 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (12.15%) DevSecOps
8 38 (11.84%) ITIL
9 36 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (10.59%) SIEM
11 30 (9.35%) Roadmaps
11 30 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (9.03%) Analytics
12 29 (9.03%) Containerisation
12 29 (9.03%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (8.72%) ITSM
14 26 (8.10%) Change Management
15 24 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (7.48%) TOGAF
16 22 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (23.68%) Python
2 48 (14.95%) PowerShell
3 22 (6.85%) SQL
4 16 (4.98%) Bash
5 14 (4.36%) Bicep
5 14 (4.36%) Java
6 13 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.43%) Go
8 9 (2.80%) C#
9 5 (1.56%) VBScript
10 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.93%) PHP
11 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.62%) X++
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (43.30%) Security Cleared
2 115 (35.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.03%) CISSP
4 24 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.54%) CISM
5 21 (6.54%) Degree
6 18 (5.61%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.05%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.74%) CHECK Team Member
8 12 (3.74%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (3.12%) Postgraduate
11 9 (2.80%) CCNP
12 8 (2.49%) PMI Certification
13 7 (2.18%) PMP
14 6 (1.87%) CCIE
15 5 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (1.56%) RHCE
16 4 (1.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (11.84%) GDPR
3 28 (8.72%) NIST
4 19 (5.92%) QA
5 13 (4.05%) PMO
6 12 (3.74%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.80%) NCSC
8 6 (1.87%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.25%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.93%) GRC
10 3 (0.93%) SLA
11 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.31%) Def Stans
System Software
1 71 (22.12%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.48%) Docker
4 16 (4.98%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.62%) NFS
9 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (15.58%) Terraform
2 43 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (7.17%) Ansible
5 12 (3.74%) Nmap
6 5 (1.56%) Grafana
6 5 (1.56%) Nagios
6 5 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.25%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.62%) SCCM
9 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.59%) VMware
3 31 (9.66%) Oracle
4 26 (8.10%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.92%) BeyondTrust
5 19 (5.92%) CyberArk
6 17 (5.30%) Cisco
7 16 (4.98%) Google
8 11 (3.43%) Citrix
9 8 (2.49%) Juniper
9 8 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.18%) Databricks
10 7 (2.18%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.18%) Splunk
11 6 (1.87%) Virgin Media
12 5 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (1.56%) SAP
13 4 (1.25%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.93%) LogRhythm