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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 316 291 257
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 22.21% 18.19% 14.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.54% 57.51% 45.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 196 217
10th Percentile £269 £400 £416
25th Percentile £400 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £650
90th Percentile £644 £653 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £73.00 £31.88 £52.67
25th Percentile £78.50 £38.08 £55.90
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.94 £61.53
Median % change year-on-year +83.91% -20.46% +11.87%
75th Percentile £96.25 £59.58 £66.90
90th Percentile £100.90 £65.64 £69.96
South East median hourly rate £84.00 £28.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +194.74% -44.96% +158.89%

All Cloud 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 569 506 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.99% 31.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 316 371
10th Percentile £255 £371 £325
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -4.35% +6.28%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £20.69 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.75 £42.76
Median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £86.00 £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.00 - £90.25
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 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 +8 131 £425 -26.09% 11
Reading -2 129 £500 -16.67% 79
Windsor -1 15 £513 +7.44% 1
Slough +6 11 £475 -9.52% 127
Bracknell -1 10 £425 -22.73% 5
Maidenhead -1 4 £475 -18.10% 2
Thatcham - 1 - -
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 14 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) GeoServer
3 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.90%) Smallworld
4 3 (0.95%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) Mule
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.63%) Primavera
2 2 (0.63%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (47.15%) AWS
2 91 (28.80%) GCP
3 77 (24.37%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (9.81%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (9.18%) Entra ID
5 29 (9.18%) Power Platform
6 19 (6.01%) SaaS
7 17 (5.38%) Azure AKS
8 15 (4.75%) GitHub
8 15 (4.75%) IaaS
9 11 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.48%) OCI
9 11 (3.48%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.16%) Azure Functions
10 10 (3.16%) Azure Storage
10 10 (3.16%) PaaS
10 10 (3.16%) Serverless
11 9 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.18%) DNS
2 20 (6.33%) DHCP
3 18 (5.70%) Firewall
3 18 (5.70%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.48%) VLAN
5 9 (2.85%) Network Security
6 7 (2.22%) LAN
6 7 (2.22%) WAN
7 6 (1.90%) BGP
7 6 (1.90%) MPLS
7 6 (1.90%) Wireless
8 4 (1.27%) FTP
8 4 (1.27%) HTTP
8 4 (1.27%) NAS
8 4 (1.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.95%) SSL
9 3 (0.95%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.91%) Power BI
2 15 (4.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.85%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.90%) Big Data
5 6 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (1.90%) GIS
5 6 (1.90%) QGIS
6 5 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.58%) Tableau
7 4 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.95%) Metadata
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.63%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.70%) Git
2 17 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.53%) JIRA
4 5 (1.58%) Burp Suite
4 5 (1.58%) Selenium
5 4 (1.27%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.63%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.63%) GitLab
7 2 (0.63%) NUnit
7 2 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 129 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (6.96%) Finance
4 22 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.16%) Billing
7 8 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.53%) Retail
8 6 (1.90%) Legal
9 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.32%) French Language
12 1 (0.32%) German Language
12 1 (0.32%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (20.57%) Architect
2 35 (11.08%) Analyst
3 33 (10.44%) Lead
4 31 (9.81%) Senior
5 27 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (6.96%) Developer
7 20 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.06%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.75%) Consultant
11 11 (3.48%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (3.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (3.16%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.16%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.16%) Site Engineer
12 10 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.16%) Test Analyst
12 10 (3.16%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.28%) ADO
2 20 (6.33%) REST
3 16 (5.06%) .NET
3 16 (5.06%) LDAP
4 8 (2.53%) OAuth
4 8 (2.53%) RESTful
4 8 (2.53%) scikit-learn
5 7 (2.22%) .NET Core
5 7 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 7 (2.22%) SOAP
6 6 (1.90%) FastAPI
6 6 (1.90%) NETCONF
6 6 (1.90%) React
6 6 (1.90%) Web Services
6 6 (1.90%) YANG
7 5 (1.58%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.58%) OpenID
7 5 (1.58%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.58%) SAML
7 5 (1.58%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.48%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.85%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.58%) CMDB
8 5 (1.58%) PKI
9 4 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.27%) Replication
10 3 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.66%) Windows
2 32 (10.13%) Linux
3 9 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.95%) VMS
6 2 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (42.09%) DevOps
2 86 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (25.63%) CI/CD
4 74 (23.42%) Agile
5 48 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 44 (13.92%) ITIL
8 41 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (12.34%) DevSecOps
9 39 (12.34%) Service Management
10 37 (11.71%) ITSM
11 35 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (9.49%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (9.18%) AI
13 29 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (9.18%) Change Management
13 29 (9.18%) SIEM
14 28 (8.86%) Analytics
14 28 (8.86%) Roadmaps
15 27 (8.54%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.10%) Python
2 39 (12.34%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.13%) SQL
4 19 (6.01%) Bash
4 19 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.06%) C#
6 12 (3.80%) Java
7 6 (1.90%) Go
8 5 (1.58%) PHP
9 4 (1.27%) Bicep
9 4 (1.27%) R
10 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 86 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.81%) Azure Certification
4 29 (9.18%) CISSP
5 21 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 21 (6.65%) Degree
6 19 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.38%) CISM
8 13 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.80%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (3.48%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (2.53%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.22%) ISTQB
14 6 (1.90%) CCIE
14 6 (1.90%) CREST Certified
14 6 (1.90%) JNCIE
15 5 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.58%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.71%) GDPR
2 32 (10.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (8.23%) NIST
4 11 (3.48%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.16%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.16%) QA
6 6 (1.90%) PMO
7 5 (1.58%) GRC
7 5 (1.58%) PSD2
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (14.56%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (8.23%) Docker
4 19 (6.01%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.22%) vSphere
6 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.32%) NDS
7 1 (0.32%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.32%) NFS
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.39%) Terraform
3 23 (7.28%) Ansible
4 9 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.90%) Argo
5 6 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.58%) Nmap
7 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.27%) SCCM
8 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.32%) Nessus
8 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.08%) VMware
3 33 (10.44%) Google
4 31 (9.81%) Oracle
5 20 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 18 (5.70%) CyberArk
7 17 (5.38%) BeyondTrust
8 16 (5.06%) Salesforce
9 15 (4.75%) Databricks
10 13 (4.11%) Virgin Media
11 10 (3.16%) Pure Storage
12 9 (2.85%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.53%) MuleSoft
14 7 (2.22%) Cisco
14 7 (2.22%) OpenAI
15 6 (1.90%) ESRI
15 6 (1.90%) Intergraph
15 6 (1.90%) Palantir
16 5 (1.58%) Citrix
16 5 (1.58%) Workday