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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 314 245 263
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.09% 20.28% 14.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.69% 53.96% 52.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 164 200
10th Percentile £363 £351 £450
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £503 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -16.90% +0.83%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £670
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 1 6
10th Percentile £31.25 - £56.58
25th Percentile £45.29 £30.25 £56.65
Median hourly rate £87.56 £31.50 £59.95
Median % change year-on-year +177.97% -47.46% -24.30%
75th Percentile £107.00 £32.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 - £65.64
South East median hourly rate £83.75 £32.14 £51.50
% change year-on-year +160.62% -37.60% -26.43%

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 535 454 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.41% 37.58% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 277 335
10th Percentile £342 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £504 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +0.70% -1.57% -5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 18 16
10th Percentile £25.49 - £20.63
25th Percentile £31.31 £14.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.77 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +279.05% -62.59% +152.92%
75th Percentile £103.94 £32.25 £60.72
90th Percentile £110.75 £47.65 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £27.50
% change year-on-year +271.94% -31.56% +1.85%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -2 162 £579 +5.23% 44
Wokingham -2 124 £460 -8.00% 3
Windsor -13 5 £456 -8.75% 14
Slough +8 4 £460 -29.23% 5
Maidenhead -2 3 £475 +137.50% 3
Bracknell -3 1 £450 - 4
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 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.23%) Confluence
3 6 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.59%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.64%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.32%) Predix
Applications
1 11 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.91%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Primavera
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (39.49%) AWS
2 78 (24.84%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (20.38%) GCP
4 56 (17.83%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.05%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.41%) OCI
8 16 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (4.46%) OneDrive
10 13 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (3.82%) SaaS
12 10 (3.18%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.55%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.55%) Route 53
14 7 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.23%) GitHub
14 7 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.38%) DNS
2 32 (10.19%) Firewall
3 31 (9.87%) DHCP
4 26 (8.28%) TCP/IP
5 23 (7.32%) LAN
6 22 (7.01%) WAN
7 19 (6.05%) Network Security
8 16 (5.10%) SD-WAN
8 16 (5.10%) VPN
9 14 (4.46%) BGP
10 10 (3.18%) MPLS
11 9 (2.87%) SSL
12 8 (2.55%) DNSSEC
12 8 (2.55%) FTP
13 7 (2.23%) OSPF
13 7 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (1.59%) Wireless
15 4 (1.27%) VLAN
16 3 (0.96%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.18%) Power BI
4 7 (2.23%) Big Data
4 7 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.96%) Parquet
7 3 (0.96%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.96%) Tableau
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (6.05%) Git
2 14 (4.46%) JIRA
3 7 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.96%) JMeter
4 3 (0.96%) LoadRunner
4 3 (0.96%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.64%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.32%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.32%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.32%) MSI
6 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 112 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (12.10%) Aerospace
4 27 (8.60%) Finance
5 22 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.18%) Billing
9 9 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.91%) Retail
11 4 (1.27%) Legal
11 4 (1.27%) Publishing
12 2 (0.64%) Military
12 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.64%) Police
12 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (21.66%) Architect
2 31 (9.87%) Lead
3 29 (9.24%) Analyst
4 25 (7.96%) Developer
4 25 (7.96%) Senior
5 23 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (3.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (3.18%) Business Analyst
7 10 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.18%) IT Support
7 10 (3.18%) Test Analyst
8 9 (2.87%) Network Architect
8 9 (2.87%) Oracle Analyst
8 9 (2.87%) Product Owner
9 8 (2.55%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (2.23%) Consultant
10 7 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.69%) LDAP
2 20 (6.37%) REST
3 18 (5.73%) OAuth
4 15 (4.78%) SAML
5 12 (3.82%) .NET
6 11 (3.50%) RESTful
7 10 (3.18%) OpenID
8 9 (2.87%) ADO
8 9 (2.87%) OpenAPI
8 9 (2.87%) Swagger
9 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (2.23%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.23%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.23%) Pandas
10 7 (2.23%) pytest
10 7 (2.23%) SOAP
10 7 (2.23%) YAML
11 6 (1.91%) Django
11 6 (1.91%) Flask
11 6 (1.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.87%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.23%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.91%) PKI
11 5 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.27%) CMDB
12 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.27%) IoT
12 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.11%) Windows
2 23 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.82%) Linux
3 12 (3.82%) Mac OS
4 11 (3.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.32%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (42.36%) DevOps
2 73 (23.25%) CI/CD
3 70 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (21.02%) Agile
5 63 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (15.29%) Roadmaps
9 37 (11.78%) Analytics
10 36 (11.46%) ITIL
11 32 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
12 31 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (9.87%) Migration
12 31 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 31 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (9.24%) Containerisation
14 29 (9.24%) Enterprise Architecture
15 28 (8.92%) Validation
16 27 (8.60%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.52%) Python
2 52 (16.56%) PowerShell
3 30 (9.55%) SQL
4 17 (5.41%) Bash
5 14 (4.46%) Java
6 9 (2.87%) Bicep
7 8 (2.55%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.91%) Go
8 6 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.59%) C#
9 5 (1.59%) X++
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) R
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 95 (30.25%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.51%) Azure Certification
4 28 (8.92%) CISSP
5 27 (8.60%) Degree
6 18 (5.73%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (4.46%) CISM
9 10 (3.18%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.87%) CCNP
10 9 (2.87%) PMP
11 7 (2.23%) CCIE
11 7 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.59%) CSPO
13 5 (1.59%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.27%) CCNA
15 3 (0.96%) MCSA
15 3 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.32%) NIST
3 18 (5.73%) GDPR
4 12 (3.82%) QA
5 10 (3.18%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.27%) GRC
6 4 (1.27%) NCSC
7 3 (0.96%) SLA
8 2 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.64%) PMO
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (21.34%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.69%) Docker
4 15 (4.78%) Hyper-V
5 14 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.91%) vSphere
9 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 50 (15.92%) Terraform
2 31 (9.87%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (5.41%) Ansible
5 10 (3.18%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.59%) SCCM
7 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.27%) Puppet
7 4 (1.27%) SCOM
7 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.27%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.64%) CASB
8 2 (0.64%) Grafana
8 2 (0.64%) Nagios
8 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.64%) vMotion
9 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.32%) Nmap
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 107 (34.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.24%) ServiceNow
2 29 (9.24%) VMware
3 22 (7.01%) Oracle
4 19 (6.05%) Google
5 16 (5.10%) Cisco
6 15 (4.78%) CyberArk
7 14 (4.46%) SAP
8 12 (3.82%) Databricks
9 10 (3.18%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (3.18%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.55%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.55%) Juniper
11 7 (2.23%) Okta
12 6 (1.91%) Aruba
12 6 (1.91%) Citrix
12 6 (1.91%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.91%) Splunk
13 5 (1.59%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.59%) Remedy