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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 320 244 270
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 17.64% 20.54% 15.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.78% 51.91% 54.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 149 202
10th Percentile £363 £345 £463
25th Percentile £425 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -17.36% +0.83%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £690 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 0 2
10th Percentile £31.25 - £31.88
25th Percentile £65.00 - £38.08
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £48.94
75th Percentile £104.00 - £59.58
90th Percentile £110.75 - £65.64
South East median hourly rate £73.22 £32.77 £53.00
% change year-on-year +123.42% -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 518 470 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.56% 39.56% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 278 334
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £430 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -11.09% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £666 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £499 £513
% change year-on-year +0.25% -2.68% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 16 13
10th Percentile £22.40 - £19.59
25th Percentile £31.44 £14.75 £27.75
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -67.49% +28.99%
75th Percentile £101.94 £32.12 £61.06
90th Percentile £110.75 £44.08 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £61.74 £18.82 £40.50
% change year-on-year +228.06% -53.53% +43.82%

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 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 11 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 11 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 -1 201 £613 +11.36% 72
Wokingham -2 87 £475 +3.12% 3
Windsor -6 8 £463 -7.50% 7
Slough +7 6 £480 -10.28% 20
Maidenhead -3 2 £475 +137.50% 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 20 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.50%) Confluence
3 7 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.56%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.63%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.31%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.31%) Predix
Applications
1 5 (1.56%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 143 (44.69%) AWS
2 81 (25.31%) GCP
3 74 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (14.38%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.31%) GitHub
7 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.44%) OneDrive
11 11 (3.44%) SaaS
12 10 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.81%) IaaS
14 8 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (2.50%) Route 53
15 7 (2.19%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.44%) DNS
2 32 (10.00%) DHCP
3 29 (9.06%) Firewall
3 29 (9.06%) TCP/IP
4 17 (5.31%) LAN
5 16 (5.00%) WAN
6 13 (4.06%) Network Security
7 11 (3.44%) VPN
8 10 (3.13%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.81%) BGP
10 8 (2.50%) DNSSEC
10 8 (2.50%) MPLS
11 5 (1.56%) FTP
11 5 (1.56%) SSL
11 5 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.94%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.94%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.94%) Wireless
13 2 (0.63%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.06%) Power BI
3 7 (2.19%) Big Data
4 6 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.25%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.94%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.94%) Tableau
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.63%) Metadata
8 2 (0.63%) Parquet
8 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 17 (5.31%) Git
1 17 (5.31%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.75%) GitLab
3 10 (3.13%) JIRA
4 4 (1.25%) JMeter
5 3 (0.94%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.94%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.31%) MSI
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 124 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.44%) Aerospace
3 43 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.88%) Finance
5 14 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.81%) Billing
7 9 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.19%) Retail
9 4 (1.25%) Legal
10 3 (0.94%) Military
10 3 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (23.44%) Architect
2 43 (13.44%) Lead
3 33 (10.31%) Senior
4 29 (9.06%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (6.56%) Developer
6 19 (5.94%) Consultant
7 15 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.38%) Analyst
8 14 (4.38%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.13%) IT Support
9 10 (3.13%) Network Architect
10 9 (2.81%) CyberArk Consultant
10 9 (2.81%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.81%) Project Manager
10 9 (2.81%) Technical Leader
11 8 (2.50%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.50%) Terraform
2 27 (8.44%) LDAP
3 24 (7.50%) REST
4 20 (6.25%) OAuth
5 17 (5.31%) SAML
6 15 (4.69%) .NET
7 13 (4.06%) OpenID
8 12 (3.75%) ARM Templates
8 12 (3.75%) RESTful
9 11 (3.44%) PySpark
10 8 (2.50%) OpenAPI
10 8 (2.50%) Swagger
11 7 (2.19%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.88%) JWT
12 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (1.88%) SOAP
13 5 (1.56%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.56%) FastAPI
13 5 (1.56%) NETCONF
13 5 (1.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (9.69%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.94%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.50%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.56%) IoT
9 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.25%) CMDB
10 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.25%) PKI
11 3 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 55 (17.19%) Windows
2 23 (7.19%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.56%) Linux
4 11 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.44%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (43.44%) DevOps
2 93 (29.06%) CI/CD
3 91 (28.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (25.63%) Agile
5 75 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (17.81%) Analytics
8 54 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
9 51 (15.94%) Roadmaps
10 50 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
11 45 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (14.06%) Migration
12 41 (12.81%) SIEM
13 39 (12.19%) ITIL
14 36 (11.25%) Containerisation
15 35 (10.94%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (10.94%) Identity Access Management
16 34 (10.63%) DevSecOps
17 32 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 31 (9.69%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 94 (29.38%) Python
2 62 (19.38%) PowerShell
3 36 (11.25%) SQL
4 28 (8.75%) Bash
5 15 (4.69%) Bicep
5 15 (4.69%) Java
6 7 (2.19%) C#
6 7 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.88%) Go
8 5 (1.56%) X++
9 2 (0.63%) Magik
10 1 (0.31%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) R
10 1 (0.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 132 (41.25%) Security Cleared
2 112 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.75%) Azure Certification
4 33 (10.31%) CISSP
5 31 (9.69%) Degree
6 27 (8.44%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (4.38%) PMI Certification
8 14 (4.38%) PMP
9 12 (3.75%) CISM
9 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (2.19%) CCIE
13 6 (1.88%) CCNP
13 6 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.56%) CSPO
14 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.56%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.19%) NIST
3 18 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.75%) GDPR
4 12 (3.75%) QA
5 6 (1.88%) NCSC
6 5 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.56%) GRC
7 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) PMO
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (9.06%) Docker
3 27 (8.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.88%) vSphere
8 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 54 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.81%) Ansible
3 23 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.13%) Grafana
4 10 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.88%) SCCM
6 5 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.56%) SCOM
7 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.94%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) CASB
9 2 (0.63%) vMotion
10 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.31%) QRadar
10 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 139 (43.44%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.94%) VMware
3 28 (8.75%) Google
4 27 (8.44%) CyberArk
5 24 (7.50%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.94%) Databricks
7 15 (4.69%) SAP
8 12 (3.75%) Cisco
9 11 (3.44%) Oracle
10 10 (3.13%) Salesforce
10 10 (3.13%) Splunk
11 8 (2.50%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.50%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.19%) Okta
13 6 (1.88%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.88%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.88%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.56%) Citrix
14 5 (1.56%) ForgeRock