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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 333 266 282
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 18.20% 21.97% 16.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.13% 51.95% 56.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 169 210
10th Percentile £363 £313 £424
25th Percentile £447 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £665 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.24% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 0 2
10th Percentile £31.25 - £31.88
25th Percentile £66.55 - £38.08
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £48.94
75th Percentile £103.88 - £59.58
90th Percentile £110.75 - £65.64
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £32.77 £53.00
% change year-on-year +128.87% -38.17% -24.29%

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 536 512 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.29% 42.28% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 311 328
10th Percentile £352 £270 £375
25th Percentile £450 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £614 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £664 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 17 12
10th Percentile £21.04 - £19.45
25th Percentile £31.50 £14.75 £26.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -67.56% +29.27%
75th Percentile £100.85 £32.31 £61.98
90th Percentile £110.75 £43.39 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £18.82 £42.50
% change year-on-year +185.60% -55.72% +57.41%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -3 211 £613 +16.67% 105
Wokingham -2 90 £475 +11.76% 15
Windsor -8 10 £463 -7.50% 11
Slough +3 6 £480 +6.67% 43
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 20 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.40%) Confluence
3 7 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.60%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.30%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.30%) Predix
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (42.34%) AWS
2 81 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (24.02%) GCP
4 53 (15.92%) Entra ID
5 31 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.41%) GitHub
7 18 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.80%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.60%) SaaS
11 11 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (3.30%) OneDrive
12 10 (3.00%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (2.40%) IaaS
13 8 (2.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 45 (13.51%) DNS
2 32 (9.61%) DHCP
3 28 (8.41%) Firewall
3 28 (8.41%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.50%) LAN
4 15 (4.50%) VPN
5 14 (4.20%) WAN
6 13 (3.90%) Network Security
7 9 (2.70%) BGP
8 8 (2.40%) DNSSEC
8 8 (2.40%) MPLS
8 8 (2.40%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.50%) FTP
9 5 (1.50%) SSL
9 5 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.90%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.90%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.90%) Wireless
11 2 (0.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (4.20%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.60%) Power BI
3 7 (2.10%) Big Data
4 6 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.20%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.60%) Metadata
8 2 (0.60%) Parquet
8 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.60%) Tableau
9 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.50%) Git
3 12 (3.60%) GitLab
4 11 (3.30%) JIRA
5 4 (1.20%) JMeter
6 3 (0.90%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.90%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.30%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.30%) MSI
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 127 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.22%) Aerospace
3 40 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.21%) Finance
5 13 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.30%) Billing
7 11 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.00%) Retail
9 7 (2.10%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Police
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (22.82%) Architect
2 44 (13.21%) Lead
3 34 (10.21%) Senior
4 30 (9.01%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (6.31%) Developer
6 19 (5.71%) Consultant
7 16 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (4.50%) Analyst
9 14 (4.20%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.30%) Network Architect
11 10 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.00%) IT Support
12 9 (2.70%) CyberArk Consultant
12 9 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
12 9 (2.70%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.70%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.70%) Technical Leader
13 8 (2.40%) SIEM Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.32%) Terraform
2 26 (7.81%) LDAP
3 25 (7.51%) REST
4 21 (6.31%) OAuth
5 18 (5.41%) SAML
6 15 (4.50%) .NET
7 14 (4.20%) OpenID
8 12 (3.60%) ARM Templates
9 11 (3.30%) PySpark
9 11 (3.30%) RESTful
10 8 (2.40%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.10%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.10%) Swagger
12 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
12 6 (1.80%) JWT
12 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (1.80%) SOAP
13 5 (1.50%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.50%) ADO
13 5 (1.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 30 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 20 (6.01%) Data Centre
5 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.80%) PKI
10 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.50%) IoT
10 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.50%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.20%) CMDB
11 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.90%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.92%) Windows
2 23 (6.91%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.61%) Linux
4 12 (3.60%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.60%) Mac OS
5 9 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (43.24%) DevOps
2 96 (28.83%) CI/CD
2 96 (28.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (25.53%) Agile
4 73 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (16.52%) Analytics
6 55 (16.52%) Roadmaps
7 54 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (15.62%) Technical Leadership
9 50 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (14.71%) Migration
11 41 (12.31%) SIEM
12 40 (12.01%) Identity Access Management
13 39 (11.71%) ITIL
14 37 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 36 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
16 33 (9.91%) DevSecOps
17 32 (9.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 32 (9.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.53%) Python
2 67 (20.12%) PowerShell
3 35 (10.51%) SQL
4 28 (8.41%) Bash
5 15 (4.50%) Bicep
5 15 (4.50%) Java
6 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (2.10%) C#
8 6 (1.80%) Go
9 5 (1.50%) X++
10 2 (0.60%) Magik
11 1 (0.30%) Groovy
11 1 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 142 (42.64%) Security Cleared
2 125 (37.54%) SC Cleared
3 48 (14.41%) Azure Certification
4 33 (9.91%) Degree
5 32 (9.61%) CISSP
6 27 (8.11%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.01%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.60%) PMI Certification
9 12 (3.60%) PMP
10 11 (3.30%) CISM
11 9 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (2.40%) DV Cleared
13 7 (2.10%) CCIE
14 6 (1.80%) CCNP
14 6 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (1.50%) CSPO
15 5 (1.50%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.01%) NIST
3 18 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.30%) QA
5 10 (3.00%) GDPR
6 6 (1.80%) NCSC
7 5 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.50%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.90%) SLA
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 69 (20.72%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.01%) Docker
3 27 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (6.31%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.80%) vSphere
9 4 (1.20%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (16.52%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.31%) Ansible
3 29 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.00%) Grafana
4 10 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.10%) SCCM
5 7 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.50%) SCOM
7 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.90%) Istio
8 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) CASB
9 2 (0.60%) vMotion
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 153 (45.95%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.21%) VMware
3 28 (8.41%) Google
4 26 (7.81%) CyberArk
5 24 (7.21%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.71%) Databricks
7 15 (4.50%) SAP
8 12 (3.60%) Cisco
8 12 (3.60%) Oracle
9 10 (3.00%) Salesforce
9 10 (3.00%) Splunk
10 8 (2.40%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.40%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.40%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.10%) Okta
12 6 (1.80%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.80%) Ping Identity
13 5 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.50%) Citrix
13 5 (1.50%) ForgeRock