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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 309 235 278
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.37% 20.65% 14.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.70% 55.69% 52.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 153 211
10th Percentile £355 £350 £450
25th Percentile £406 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.65% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 11
10th Percentile £31.25 £38.70 £56.50
25th Percentile £35.22 £51.38 £56.65
Median hourly rate £87.16 £74.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +26.93% -26.38%
75th Percentile £106.00 £76.35 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £76.85 -
South East median hourly rate £85.00 £53.39 £53.00
% change year-on-year +59.22% +0.73% -26.90%

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 545 422 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.87% 37.08% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 258 347
10th Percentile £316 £324 £338
25th Percentile £406 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £650 £666 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 27
10th Percentile £25.65 £14.75 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £32.18 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +156.37% -44.80% +151.84%
75th Percentile £103.88 £50.25 £61.55
90th Percentile £110.75 £76.68 £61.76
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
% change year-on-year +218.81% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -2 154 £566 -1.57% 35
Wokingham -2 132 £430 -14.00% 5
Windsor -13 5 £456 -8.75% 2
Maidenhead -2 3 £475 +137.50% 1
Slough +7 2 £530 -11.67% 3
Bracknell -2 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 24 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.59%) Confluence
3 7 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.97%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.32%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.94%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Primavera
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (37.86%) AWS
2 78 (25.24%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (19.09%) GCP
4 58 (18.77%) Entra ID
5 34 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (7.44%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (5.50%) OCI
8 15 (4.85%) SaaS
9 13 (4.21%) OneDrive
10 11 (3.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.91%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.59%) GitHub
12 8 (2.59%) IaaS
12 8 (2.59%) PaaS
12 8 (2.59%) Route 53
13 7 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (12.94%) DNS
2 35 (11.33%) Firewall
3 34 (11.00%) DHCP
4 25 (8.09%) LAN
5 24 (7.77%) TCP/IP
5 24 (7.77%) WAN
6 17 (5.50%) SD-WAN
7 16 (5.18%) Network Security
8 14 (4.53%) BGP
8 14 (4.53%) VPN
9 12 (3.88%) MPLS
10 11 (3.56%) FTP
11 9 (2.91%) SSL
12 8 (2.59%) DNSSEC
13 7 (2.27%) OSPF
13 7 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.27%) Wireless
14 4 (1.29%) VLAN
15 3 (0.97%) IPsec
15 3 (0.97%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.53%) Power BI
2 12 (3.88%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.94%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.29%) Big Data
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.97%) Parquet
6 3 (0.97%) Tableau
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.65%) GIS
7 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.18%) Git
2 12 (3.88%) JIRA
3 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.29%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.29%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.97%) HP UFT
5 3 (0.97%) JMeter
5 3 (0.97%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.97%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.65%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.65%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 114 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (10.68%) Aerospace
4 25 (8.09%) Finance
5 19 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.24%) Billing
8 9 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.94%) Retail
10 4 (1.29%) Legal
11 3 (0.97%) Police
12 2 (0.65%) Military
12 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Publishing
13 1 (0.32%) Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (19.42%) Architect
2 32 (10.36%) Analyst
3 26 (8.41%) Lead
4 25 (8.09%) Senior
5 24 (7.77%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (7.44%) Developer
7 16 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.24%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.24%) IT Support
9 10 (3.24%) Network Architect
9 10 (3.24%) Test Analyst
10 9 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (2.91%) Oracle Analyst
10 9 (2.91%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (2.59%) Platform Architect
11 8 (2.59%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.15%) LDAP
2 14 (4.53%) OAuth
2 14 (4.53%) REST
3 13 (4.21%) SAML
4 12 (3.88%) .NET
5 11 (3.56%) ADO
6 10 (3.24%) OpenID
7 9 (2.91%) RESTful
8 8 (2.59%) ARM Templates
9 7 (2.27%) NETCONF
9 7 (2.27%) OpenAPI
9 7 (2.27%) Pandas
9 7 (2.27%) pytest
9 7 (2.27%) Swagger
9 7 (2.27%) YANG
10 6 (1.94%) Django
10 6 (1.94%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.94%) Flask
10 6 (1.94%) Kafka
10 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.44%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.59%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.94%) PKI
10 5 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.62%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.39%) Windows
2 25 (8.09%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.88%) Mac OS
4 11 (3.56%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.27%) Linux
6 4 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Unix
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (43.37%) DevOps
2 77 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (22.33%) CI/CD
4 57 (18.45%) Agile
5 55 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (17.15%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (14.89%) Roadmaps
8 33 (10.68%) ITIL
8 33 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
9 29 (9.39%) Analytics
10 28 (9.06%) Enterprise Architecture
10 28 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (8.09%) High Availability
12 24 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (7.77%) ITSM
12 24 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (7.77%) TOGAF
13 23 (7.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 23 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.24%) Python
2 48 (15.53%) PowerShell
3 26 (8.41%) SQL
4 18 (5.83%) Java
5 13 (4.21%) Bash
6 11 (3.56%) Bicep
6 11 (3.56%) Go
7 5 (1.62%) C#
7 5 (1.62%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.62%) X++
8 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.97%) VBScript
9 1 (0.32%) Groovy
9 1 (0.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 126 (40.78%) Security Cleared
2 101 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.71%) Azure Certification
3 30 (9.71%) CISSP
4 25 (8.09%) Degree
5 17 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.18%) CISM
7 15 (4.85%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.91%) CCIE
8 9 (2.91%) CCNP
8 9 (2.91%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.59%) PMP
10 7 (2.27%) JNCIE
11 6 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.62%) CREST Certified
12 5 (1.62%) CSPO
13 4 (1.29%) CHECK Team Member
13 4 (1.29%) Cyber Scheme
13 4 (1.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.44%) NIST
3 22 (7.12%) GDPR
4 12 (3.88%) QA
5 8 (2.59%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.59%) NCSC
6 4 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.97%) GRC
7 3 (0.97%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.97%) PMO
8 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (21.36%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.50%) Docker
4 15 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.94%) vSphere
9 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (14.89%) Terraform
2 32 (10.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (9.06%) Kubernetes
4 17 (5.50%) Ansible
5 10 (3.24%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.94%) SCCM
7 4 (1.29%) Nmap
7 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.97%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) SCOM
8 3 (0.97%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.65%) Nagios
9 2 (0.65%) vMotion
10 1 (0.32%) CASB
10 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.32%) Grafana
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 94 (30.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.74%) VMware
3 26 (8.41%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.77%) Oracle
5 16 (5.18%) Cisco
6 13 (4.21%) CyberArk
6 13 (4.21%) Google
7 12 (3.88%) BeyondTrust
8 11 (3.56%) SAP
9 9 (2.91%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.59%) Citrix
10 8 (2.59%) Databricks
10 8 (2.59%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.59%) Juniper
11 7 (2.27%) Okta
12 6 (1.94%) Aruba
12 6 (1.94%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.94%) Remedy
13 5 (1.62%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.62%) Virgin Media