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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 300 224 273
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.57% 19.56% 14.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.47% 57.14% 52.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 143 217
10th Percentile £350 £352 £413
25th Percentile £406 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -10.00% +1.91%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £638
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 10
10th Percentile £31.25 £38.70 £56.50
25th Percentile £78.60 £51.38 £56.65
Median hourly rate £97.23 £74.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +26.93% -26.38%
75th Percentile £106.00 £76.35 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £76.85 -
South East median hourly rate £87.98 £52.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +66.79% +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 522 392 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.82% 34.24% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 245 360
10th Percentile £314 £325 £325
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £668 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 11 23
10th Percentile £28.71 £24.66 £20.49
25th Percentile £32.43 £29.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.00 £32.05 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +155.85% -45.03% +150.21%
75th Percentile £103.94 £61.75 £61.55
90th Percentile £110.75 £77.19 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +63.79% +24.92% -3.27%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -1 143 £425 -15.00% 10
Reading -3 136 £558 -3.04% 49
Windsor -11 5 £475 -5.00% 16
Maidenhead - 3 £475 - 3
Bracknell -5 2 £450 -25.00% 5
Slough +4 1 £600 - 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 21 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.33%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.33%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) Primavera
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 110 (36.67%) AWS
2 90 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (19.00%) GCP
4 54 (18.00%) Entra ID
5 26 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (8.67%) Power Platform
6 20 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (6.00%) OCI
8 17 (5.67%) SaaS
9 15 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 12 (4.00%) IaaS
10 12 (4.00%) PaaS
11 8 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (2.67%) GitHub
11 8 (2.67%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.33%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.33%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.67%) Firewall
2 27 (9.00%) DNS
3 25 (8.33%) DHCP
4 20 (6.67%) LAN
4 20 (6.67%) WAN
5 16 (5.33%) VPN
6 15 (5.00%) Network Security
7 14 (4.67%) BGP
7 14 (4.67%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.33%) TCP/IP
9 12 (4.00%) FTP
9 12 (4.00%) Wireless
10 10 (3.33%) OSPF
11 9 (3.00%) MPLS
12 7 (2.33%) SSL
12 7 (2.33%) VLAN
13 6 (2.00%) WLAN
14 4 (1.33%) IPsec
14 4 (1.33%) MQTT
15 3 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.33%) Power BI
2 10 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.00%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (2.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 7 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.00%) Big Data
9 3 (1.00%) GIS
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.00%) Parquet
10 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.67%) QGIS
10 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (6.67%) Git
2 15 (5.00%) JIRA
3 12 (4.00%) Burp Suite
3 12 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.00%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.67%) HP UFT
5 2 (0.67%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) MSI
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.33%) Aerospace
5 21 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (6.67%) Finance
7 11 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.33%) Retail
11 6 (2.00%) Billing
12 3 (1.00%) Police
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Military
13 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.33%) Marketing
14 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (16.00%) Architect
2 35 (11.67%) Analyst
3 29 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (9.00%) Lead
5 26 (8.67%) Senior
6 18 (6.00%) Developer
7 17 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Penetration Tester
10 11 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.33%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.33%) Test Analyst
11 10 (3.33%) Tester
12 9 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) Oracle Analyst
12 9 (3.00%) Platform Architect
12 9 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.33%) ADO
1 16 (5.33%) LDAP
2 13 (4.33%) REST
3 9 (3.00%) .NET
3 9 (3.00%) OAuth
4 8 (2.67%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.67%) SAML
5 7 (2.33%) Middleware
6 6 (2.00%) Kafka
6 6 (2.00%) OpenID
6 6 (2.00%) SOAP
7 5 (1.67%) Pandas
7 5 (1.67%) pytest
7 5 (1.67%) RESTful
7 5 (1.67%) YAML
8 4 (1.33%) Django
8 4 (1.33%) JSON
8 4 (1.33%) NumPy
8 4 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.00%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.00%) PKI
10 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.67%) CMDB
11 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
14 1 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.00%) Windows
2 22 (7.33%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.33%) Linux
4 5 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (49.33%) DevOps
2 78 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (16.67%) Agile
6 48 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (10.33%) Roadmaps
9 30 (10.00%) ITIL
10 29 (9.67%) Analytics
10 29 (9.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 25 (8.33%) SIEM
11 25 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (7.67%) Containerisation
13 21 (7.00%) DevSecOps
13 21 (7.00%) ITSM
14 20 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (6.67%) RBAC
15 19 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.33%) Python
2 38 (12.67%) PowerShell
3 22 (7.33%) SQL
4 15 (5.00%) Java
5 14 (4.67%) Bicep
6 11 (3.67%) Go
7 10 (3.33%) Bash
7 10 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.00%) C#
9 5 (1.67%) VBScript
10 4 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.00%) X++
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 101 (33.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.33%) CISSP
4 22 (7.33%) Azure Certification
4 22 (7.33%) Degree
5 16 (5.33%) CISM
6 13 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.33%) CREST Certified
7 12 (4.00%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (4.00%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (3.33%) Postgraduate
9 9 (3.00%) CCNP
10 8 (2.67%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.33%) PMP
12 6 (2.00%) CCIE
13 5 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.67%) RHCE
13 5 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (11.00%) GDPR
3 22 (7.33%) NIST
4 19 (6.33%) QA
5 12 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.00%) PMO
6 9 (3.00%) NCSC
7 6 (2.00%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.33%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.00%) GRC
9 3 (1.00%) SLA
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (20.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.00%) Docker
4 12 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (15.33%) Terraform
2 38 (12.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (6.00%) Ansible
5 12 (4.00%) Nmap
6 5 (1.67%) Grafana
6 5 (1.67%) Nagios
6 5 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.33%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (1.00%) SCCM
9 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.67%) systemd
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.33%) Oracle
3 24 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.67%) VMware
5 15 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 14 (4.67%) BeyondTrust
6 14 (4.67%) Cisco
7 8 (2.67%) Citrix
7 8 (2.67%) Juniper
7 8 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.67%) SAP
8 7 (2.33%) Databricks
8 7 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 7 (2.33%) Splunk
9 6 (2.00%) Google
10 5 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (1.67%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.33%) Okta