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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 325 243 258
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.82% 20.23% 14.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.79% 53.76% 54.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 156 201
10th Percentile £363 £352 £450
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -17.31% +0.83%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £659
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 1 4
10th Percentile £31.25 - £37.91
25th Percentile £63.06 £30.25 £53.14
Median hourly rate £85.00 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +169.84% -48.86% -22.21%
75th Percentile £104.00 £32.75 £63.62
90th Percentile £110.75 - £67.26
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £32.14 £36.75
% change year-on-year +133.39% -12.56% -47.50%

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 526 452 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.23% 37.64% 27.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 272 330
10th Percentile £349 £328 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -12.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £638
90th Percentile £664 £661 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 16 15
10th Percentile £26.63 - £19.88
25th Percentile £35.22 £14.75 £34.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -55.60% +91.87%
75th Percentile £102.50 £32.12 £60.83
90th Percentile £110.75 £40.13 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £69.11 £18.82 £32.50
% change year-on-year +267.20% -42.09% +27.58%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -1 175 £600 +10.50% 69
Wokingham -1 116 £460 -6.50% 8
Windsor -10 8 £463 -7.50% 14
Slough +8 5 £460 -23.33% 12
Maidenhead -2 3 £475 +137.50% 7
Bracknell -9 1 £450 +5.88% 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 23 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.38%) Confluence
3 7 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.31%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.31%) Predix
6 1 (0.31%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) CPLEX
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Primavera
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (40.92%) AWS
2 81 (24.92%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (22.15%) GCP
4 59 (18.15%) Entra ID
5 31 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (6.46%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (4.31%) Azure AKS
8 14 (4.31%) GitHub
8 14 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.31%) OneDrive
9 13 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.69%) SaaS
11 11 (3.38%) OCI
11 11 (3.38%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.77%) IaaS
12 9 (2.77%) PaaS
13 8 (2.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.15%) DNS
2 37 (11.38%) Firewall
3 36 (11.08%) DHCP
4 31 (9.54%) TCP/IP
5 23 (7.08%) LAN
6 22 (6.77%) WAN
7 21 (6.46%) VPN
8 19 (5.85%) Network Security
9 14 (4.31%) BGP
9 14 (4.31%) SD-WAN
10 10 (3.08%) MPLS
11 9 (2.77%) SSL
12 8 (2.46%) DNSSEC
13 7 (2.15%) FTP
13 7 (2.15%) OSPF
14 6 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (1.23%) VLAN
15 4 (1.23%) Wireless
16 3 (0.92%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (4.31%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.69%) Power BI
3 8 (2.46%) Big Data
4 7 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.23%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.92%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.92%) Tableau
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.62%) Metadata
8 2 (0.62%) Parquet
8 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 21 (6.46%) Git
2 16 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.62%) JIRA
4 11 (3.38%) GitLab
5 3 (0.92%) JMeter
5 3 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.92%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.62%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 117 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.69%) Aerospace
3 47 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.62%) Finance
5 20 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.77%) Billing
10 6 (1.85%) Retail
11 4 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Publishing
12 3 (0.92%) Military
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.62%) Police
13 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Advertising
14 1 (0.31%) Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (21.23%) Architect
2 37 (11.38%) Lead
3 32 (9.85%) Senior
4 26 (8.00%) Developer
5 23 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (6.46%) Analyst
6 21 (6.46%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (3.38%) Consultant
9 10 (3.08%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.08%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.08%) IT Support
10 9 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) Network Architect
10 9 (2.77%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.77%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.46%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.15%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.08%) LDAP
2 22 (6.77%) OAuth
2 22 (6.77%) REST
3 19 (5.85%) SAML
4 16 (4.92%) .NET
5 14 (4.31%) OpenID
6 12 (3.69%) ARM Templates
6 12 (3.69%) RESTful
7 8 (2.46%) ADO
7 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (2.46%) OpenAPI
7 8 (2.46%) Swagger
8 7 (2.15%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.15%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.15%) YAML
9 6 (1.85%) Entity Framework
9 6 (1.85%) JWT
9 6 (1.85%) Pandas
9 6 (1.85%) PySpark
9 6 (1.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.08%) Data Centre
4 20 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.15%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.85%) PKI
10 5 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.23%) IoT
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.92%) CMDB
12 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 64 (19.69%) Windows
2 27 (8.31%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.54%) Linux
4 12 (3.69%) Mac OS
5 11 (3.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Unix
7 1 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (43.69%) DevOps
2 82 (25.23%) CI/CD
3 75 (23.08%) Agile
4 70 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (17.23%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (15.69%) Analytics
9 50 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 40 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
11 39 (12.00%) Migration
12 38 (11.69%) ITIL
13 37 (11.38%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (10.15%) Containerisation
16 32 (9.85%) SIEM
17 30 (9.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 30 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
17 30 (9.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 88 (27.08%) Python
2 63 (19.38%) PowerShell
3 35 (10.77%) SQL
4 25 (7.69%) Bash
5 16 (4.92%) Bicep
6 15 (4.62%) Java
7 9 (2.77%) C#
8 6 (1.85%) Go
9 5 (1.54%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.54%) X++
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Magik
10 1 (0.31%) R
10 1 (0.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 133 (40.92%) Security Cleared
2 109 (33.54%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.31%) Azure Certification
4 31 (9.54%) Degree
5 29 (8.92%) CISSP
6 22 (6.77%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.69%) CISM
9 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.08%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.77%) PMP
11 8 (2.46%) CCNP
12 7 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.15%) CCIE
12 7 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.54%) CSPO
13 5 (1.54%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.08%) NIST
3 16 (4.92%) GDPR
4 14 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.31%) QA
5 6 (1.85%) NCSC
6 5 (1.54%) GRC
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (22.46%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (8.00%) Docker
4 21 (6.46%) Hyper-V
5 14 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.85%) vSphere
9 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 68 (20.92%) Terraform
2 48 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.46%) Ansible
4 30 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (2.46%) Grafana
7 6 (1.85%) SCCM
8 5 (1.54%) SCOM
9 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.23%) Puppet
9 4 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.62%) CASB
10 2 (0.62%) Istio
10 2 (0.62%) Nagios
10 2 (0.62%) vMotion
11 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.31%) Nmap
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 126 (38.77%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.46%) VMware
3 27 (8.31%) ServiceNow
4 26 (8.00%) Google
5 18 (5.54%) CyberArk
6 16 (4.92%) Oracle
7 15 (4.62%) Cisco
7 15 (4.62%) Databricks
7 15 (4.62%) SAP
8 10 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 10 (3.08%) Splunk
9 8 (2.46%) Infoblox
9 8 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (2.15%) Juniper
10 7 (2.15%) Okta
10 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.85%) Citrix
11 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.85%) Ping Identity