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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 333 230 244
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 17.62% 19.49% 14.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.71% 52.15% 53.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 145 191
10th Percentile £379 £361 £450
25th Percentile £423 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £605
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -17.27% +0.83%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £638
90th Percentile £693 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 1 3
10th Percentile £31.25 - £34.52
25th Percentile £63.50 £30.25 £44.68
Median hourly rate £85.00 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +169.84% -48.86% -18.51%
75th Percentile £104.00 £32.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £110.75 - £68.07
South East median hourly rate £71.22 £32.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +121.61% -1.12% -53.57%

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 531 441 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.10% 37.37% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 264 315
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -10.48% +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £664 £667
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 16 14
10th Percentile £26.30 - £19.74
25th Percentile £33.36 £14.75 £31.13
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -55.60% +21.43%
75th Percentile £103.13 £32.12 £60.44
90th Percentile £110.75 £40.13 £61.44
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £30.00
% change year-on-year +245.38% -37.27% +9.09%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 188 £608 +10.45% 55
Wokingham -2 108 £463 -6.00% 4
Windsor -9 8 £463 -7.50% 11
Slough +8 7 £500 -16.67% 7
Maidenhead -2 3 £475 +137.50% 10
Bracknell -7 1 £450 +5.88% 6
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 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.70%) Confluence
3 7 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.30%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.30%) Predix
7 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.30%) Primavera
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (42.34%) AWS
2 82 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (23.12%) GCP
4 56 (16.82%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (6.01%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (5.11%) GitHub
8 17 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (3.90%) Azure AKS
11 12 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (3.60%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.60%) SaaS
12 11 (3.30%) OneDrive
13 10 (3.00%) IaaS
14 9 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.70%) OCI
15 8 (2.40%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 47 (14.11%) DNS
2 37 (11.11%) Firewall
3 35 (10.51%) DHCP
4 30 (9.01%) TCP/IP
5 22 (6.61%) LAN
6 21 (6.31%) WAN
7 18 (5.41%) VPN
8 16 (4.80%) Network Security
9 13 (3.90%) BGP
9 13 (3.90%) SD-WAN
10 10 (3.00%) MPLS
11 9 (2.70%) SSL
12 8 (2.40%) DNSSEC
13 7 (2.10%) FTP
14 6 (1.80%) OSPF
14 6 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.90%) NetScaler
15 3 (0.90%) VLAN
15 3 (0.90%) VXLAN
15 3 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.80%) NoSQL
2 15 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.30%) Power BI
4 8 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.40%) Big Data
5 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.20%) Spark SQL
7 4 (1.20%) Tableau
8 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.90%) Parquet
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.60%) Metadata
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (6.61%) Git
2 18 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.90%) GitLab
3 13 (3.90%) JIRA
4 3 (0.90%) JMeter
4 3 (0.90%) LoadRunner
4 3 (0.90%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 121 (36.34%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.92%) Aerospace
3 48 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.41%) Finance
5 18 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.30%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.70%) Billing
8 9 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.10%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Legal
10 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.60%) Police
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (21.32%) Architect
2 40 (12.01%) Lead
3 33 (9.91%) Senior
4 26 (7.81%) Developer
5 23 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.41%) Analyst
8 13 (3.90%) Consultant
8 13 (3.90%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.00%) IT Support
9 10 (3.00%) Network Architect
10 9 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.70%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.70%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.40%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.10%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.10%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.32%) Terraform
2 25 (7.51%) LDAP
2 25 (7.51%) REST
3 23 (6.91%) OAuth
4 19 (5.71%) SAML
5 16 (4.80%) .NET
6 14 (4.20%) OpenID
7 12 (3.60%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.60%) RESTful
8 11 (3.30%) PySpark
9 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (2.40%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.40%) OpenAPI
9 8 (2.40%) Swagger
10 7 (2.10%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.10%) JWT
10 7 (2.10%) SOAP
10 7 (2.10%) YAML
11 6 (1.80%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.01%) Cloud Native
1 30 (9.01%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (6.91%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.80%) PKI
10 5 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.50%) IoT
10 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.20%) CMDB
12 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.62%) Windows
2 26 (7.81%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.71%) Linux
4 12 (3.60%) Mac OS
5 11 (3.30%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (44.44%) DevOps
2 90 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 78 (23.42%) Agile
4 76 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (17.42%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (16.82%) Analytics
9 50 (15.02%) Roadmaps
10 43 (12.91%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (12.31%) Migration
12 40 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (11.71%) ITIL
14 38 (11.41%) SIEM
15 37 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
16 35 (10.51%) Containerisation
17 32 (9.61%) Enterprise Architecture
18 31 (9.31%) AI
18 31 (9.31%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 31 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (29.13%) Python
2 63 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 40 (12.01%) SQL
4 27 (8.11%) Bash
5 16 (4.80%) Bicep
6 15 (4.50%) Java
7 9 (2.70%) C#
8 7 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.80%) Go
9 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.50%) X++
11 1 (0.30%) Groovy
11 1 (0.30%) Magik
11 1 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 132 (39.64%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.13%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.91%) Azure Certification
4 31 (9.31%) CISSP
5 29 (8.71%) Degree
6 23 (6.91%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.01%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.60%) CISM
8 12 (3.60%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.30%) PMP
10 10 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.10%) CCIE
12 7 (2.10%) CCNP
12 7 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.50%) CSPO
13 5 (1.50%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.21%) NIST
3 17 (5.11%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.80%) GDPR
5 13 (3.90%) QA
6 6 (1.80%) NCSC
7 5 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.50%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) PMO
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.11%) Docker
2 27 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.31%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.80%) vSphere
7 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 49 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.11%) Ansible
3 26 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (2.40%) Grafana
6 6 (1.80%) SCCM
7 5 (1.50%) SCOM
7 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.20%) Puppet
8 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.60%) CASB
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
9 2 (0.60%) vMotion
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) Nagios
10 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 134 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.21%) VMware
3 28 (8.41%) Google
3 28 (8.41%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.21%) CyberArk
5 18 (5.41%) Databricks
6 15 (4.50%) SAP
7 14 (4.20%) Cisco
7 14 (4.20%) Oracle
8 10 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.00%) Splunk
9 9 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.40%) Infoblox
11 7 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.10%) Okta
11 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.80%) Citrix
12 6 (1.80%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.80%) Juniper
12 6 (1.80%) Ping Identity