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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 325 248 262
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.56% 20.53% 14.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.52% 54.15% 54.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 161 204
10th Percentile £363 £350 £450
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -17.36% +0.83%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £668
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 1 4
10th Percentile £31.25 - £37.91
25th Percentile £45.29 £30.25 £53.14
Median hourly rate £87.56 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +177.97% -48.86% -22.21%
75th Percentile £107.00 £32.75 £63.62
90th Percentile £110.75 - £67.26
South East median hourly rate £79.91 £32.14 £36.75
% change year-on-year +148.67% -12.56% -47.50%

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 537 458 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.36% 37.91% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 276 335
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +3.84%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £638
90th Percentile £651 £663 £670
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 16 13
10th Percentile £25.65 - £22.15
25th Percentile £31.38 £14.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £18.87 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +337.20% -67.49% +152.37%
75th Percentile £103.88 £32.12 £61.06
90th Percentile £110.75 £40.13 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £30.00
% change year-on-year +271.94% -37.27% +11.11%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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
Reading -3 168 £591 +7.50% 62
Wokingham -1 124 £460 -4.86% 6
Windsor -9 8 £463 -7.50% 17
Slough +10 5 £460 -23.33% 10
Maidenhead -2 3 £475 +137.50% 6
Bracknell -6 1 £450 +5.88% 3
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 23 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.69%) Confluence
3 6 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.31%) Predix
Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.85%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Primavera
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 131 (40.31%) AWS
2 83 (25.54%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (20.62%) GCP
4 60 (18.46%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.92%) Azure AKS
8 15 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (4.31%) OCI
9 14 (4.31%) OneDrive
10 13 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.38%) GitHub
11 11 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.38%) SaaS
12 9 (2.77%) IaaS
12 9 (2.77%) PaaS
13 8 (2.46%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.23%) DNS
2 34 (10.46%) Firewall
3 32 (9.85%) DHCP
4 27 (8.31%) TCP/IP
5 23 (7.08%) LAN
6 22 (6.77%) WAN
7 20 (6.15%) Network Security
8 17 (5.23%) VPN
9 15 (4.62%) SD-WAN
10 14 (4.31%) BGP
11 10 (3.08%) MPLS
12 9 (2.77%) SSL
13 8 (2.46%) DNSSEC
14 7 (2.15%) FTP
14 7 (2.15%) OSPF
14 7 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (1.54%) Wireless
16 4 (1.23%) VLAN
17 3 (0.92%) NetScaler
17 3 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.23%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (3.08%) Power BI
4 7 (2.15%) Big Data
4 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.23%) Parquet
6 4 (1.23%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.92%) Tableau
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.31%) Metadata
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.15%) Git
2 15 (4.62%) JIRA
3 11 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.85%) GitLab
5 3 (0.92%) JMeter
5 3 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.92%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.62%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 114 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.23%) Aerospace
2 43 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.62%) Finance
4 20 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.08%) Billing
8 9 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.85%) Retail
11 4 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Publishing
12 3 (0.92%) Military
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.62%) Police
13 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (21.54%) Architect
2 35 (10.77%) Lead
3 29 (8.92%) Developer
4 28 (8.62%) Senior
5 25 (7.69%) Analyst
6 24 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.08%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.08%) IT Support
10 9 (2.77%) Data Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) Network Architect
10 9 (2.77%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.77%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.46%) Consultant
11 8 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.15%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.15%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.38%) REST
2 23 (7.08%) OAuth
3 22 (6.77%) LDAP
4 20 (6.15%) SAML
5 17 (5.23%) .NET
6 15 (4.62%) OpenID
7 14 (4.31%) RESTful
8 9 (2.77%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.77%) OpenAPI
8 9 (2.77%) Swagger
9 8 (2.46%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.46%) ADO
9 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (2.15%) .NET Framework
10 7 (2.15%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.15%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.15%) Pandas
10 7 (2.15%) PySpark
10 7 (2.15%) pytest
10 7 (2.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.08%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.77%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.85%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.85%) PKI
9 5 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.23%) IoT
10 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.92%) CMDB
11 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.46%) Windows
2 23 (7.08%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.31%) Linux
4 12 (3.69%) Mac OS
5 11 (3.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Unix
7 1 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (42.46%) DevOps
2 78 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 71 (21.85%) Agile
4 69 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (15.08%) Roadmaps
9 47 (14.46%) Analytics
10 37 (11.38%) ITIL
11 36 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (11.08%) Identity Access Management
11 36 (11.08%) Migration
12 34 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (10.15%) Containerisation
14 32 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
15 31 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (8.92%) Enterprise Architecture
16 29 (8.92%) SIEM
16 29 (8.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (25.54%) Python
2 54 (16.62%) PowerShell
3 37 (11.38%) SQL
4 18 (5.54%) Bash
5 14 (4.31%) Bicep
5 14 (4.31%) Java
6 10 (3.08%) C#
7 7 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.85%) Go
8 6 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.54%) X++
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Perl
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) R
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (37.85%) Security Cleared
2 98 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 28 (8.62%) Degree
5 26 (8.00%) CISSP
6 22 (6.77%) AWS Certification
7 17 (5.23%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.38%) CISM
9 10 (3.08%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.77%) CCNP
10 9 (2.77%) PMP
11 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.15%) CCIE
12 7 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.54%) CSPO
14 5 (1.54%) JNCIE
15 4 (1.23%) CCNA
15 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.15%) NIST
3 15 (4.62%) GDPR
3 15 (4.62%) QA
4 12 (3.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.54%) GRC
6 4 (1.23%) NCSC
7 3 (0.92%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.62%) PMO
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (22.46%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.38%) Docker
3 23 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (5.23%) Hyper-V
5 14 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.85%) vSphere
9 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 58 (17.85%) Terraform
2 38 (11.69%) Kubernetes
3 29 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (7.08%) Ansible
5 10 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.85%) SCCM
7 5 (1.54%) Grafana
7 5 (1.54%) SCOM
8 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.23%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.62%) CASB
9 2 (0.62%) Nagios
9 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.62%) vMotion
10 1 (0.31%) Istio
10 1 (0.31%) QRadar
10 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 115 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.23%) VMware
3 27 (8.31%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.08%) Google
5 19 (5.85%) Oracle
6 17 (5.23%) CyberArk
7 16 (4.92%) Cisco
8 15 (4.62%) SAP
9 14 (4.31%) Databricks
10 11 (3.38%) SolarWinds
11 10 (3.08%) Splunk
12 8 (2.46%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.46%) Juniper
12 8 (2.46%) Salesforce
13 7 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (2.15%) Okta
14 6 (1.85%) Citrix
14 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.85%) Ping Identity
14 6 (1.85%) Red Hat