Azure Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 238 273 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.29% 13.76% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.10% 49.55% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 216 201
10th Percentile £364 £413 £456
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £594 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +1.11% +4.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £663 £688 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.74% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £38.70 £56.50 £56.10
25th Percentile £51.38 £56.65 £61.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +26.93% -26.38% -6.84%
75th Percentile £76.35 £61.60 -
90th Percentile £76.85 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.75 £38.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +37.01% -42.96% +26.17%

All Cloud 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 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 130 £575 -4.17% 144
Wokingham +6 51 £500 -23.08% 8
Windsor +8 20 £500 -28.57% 7
Bracknell 0 6 £588 +17.50% 7
Slough -3 4 £600 +49.81% 87
Maidenhead +3 1 £500 -9.09% 20
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.94%) Apache
3 5 (2.10%) IIS
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 58 (24.37%) AWS
3 33 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (12.61%) Entra ID
5 25 (10.50%) GCP
6 23 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (9.24%) Azure AKS
8 20 (8.40%) Power Platform
9 18 (7.56%) SaaS
9 18 (7.56%) Serverless
10 16 (6.72%) Azure API Management
10 16 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (6.72%) PaaS
11 14 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (5.46%) Azure Functions
12 13 (5.46%) IaaS
13 11 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (4.20%) GitHub
15 8 (3.36%) Azure Storage
16 7 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.04%) DNS
2 9 (3.78%) Network Security
3 8 (3.36%) SMTP
3 8 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.94%) Firewall
5 6 (2.52%) BGP
5 6 (2.52%) DHCP
5 6 (2.52%) MPLS
5 6 (2.52%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.10%) VLAN
7 4 (1.68%) SSL
8 3 (1.26%) FTP
8 3 (1.26%) NGFW
8 3 (1.26%) Telnet
9 2 (0.84%) 5G
9 2 (0.84%) HTTP
9 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.84%) LAN
9 2 (0.84%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.82%) Big Data
2 18 (7.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.04%) Power BI
4 11 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.10%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.68%) Redis
8 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.26%) MySQL
9 3 (1.26%) SSDT
10 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.84%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.84%) Tableau
11 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.42%) HBase
Development Applications
1 27 (11.34%) Git
2 25 (10.50%) Selenium
3 22 (9.24%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.82%) JIRA
5 15 (6.30%) Cucumber
6 14 (5.88%) GitLab
7 13 (5.46%) REST Assured
8 9 (3.78%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.10%) Postman
9 5 (2.10%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.10%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.68%) Vite
11 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.84%) Snyk
12 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.42%) ERwin
12 1 (0.42%) NUnit
12 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 23 (9.66%) Finance
5 10 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.36%) Law
7 7 (2.94%) Electronics
7 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.94%) Marketing
8 4 (1.68%) Billing
8 4 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Police
9 3 (1.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.27%) Developer
2 38 (15.97%) Architect
3 29 (12.18%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (8.82%) Azure Developer
5 20 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.56%) Senior
7 17 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.72%) React Developer
9 15 (6.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (5.46%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Consultant
12 12 (5.04%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Tester
13 9 (3.78%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.78%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.78%) Lead
14 8 (3.36%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.36%) Automation Tester
14 8 (3.36%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.50%) .NET
2 20 (8.40%) CSS
2 20 (8.40%) HTML
2 20 (8.40%) React
2 20 (8.40%) REST
3 17 (7.14%) ADO
4 15 (6.30%) ARM Templates
5 13 (5.46%) Java EE
6 12 (5.04%) PySpark
7 10 (4.20%) OAuth
8 9 (3.78%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.36%) SAML
10 7 (2.94%) JSON
10 7 (2.94%) Node.js
10 7 (2.94%) RESTful
11 6 (2.52%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.52%) Web Services
12 5 (2.10%) YAML
13 4 (1.68%) Kafka
13 4 (1.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.78%) PKI
6 8 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.10%) Clustering
8 5 (2.10%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.26%) CSOC
10 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.84%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.84%) IoT
11 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.34%) Windows
2 18 (7.56%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.88%) Linux
4 5 (2.10%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) AIX
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (45.80%) DevOps
2 57 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (19.75%) Agile
4 46 (19.33%) CI/CD
5 44 (18.49%) Test Automation
6 32 (13.45%) Containerisation
7 30 (12.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 26 (10.92%) Configuration Management
9 24 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (9.66%) Software Engineering
11 22 (9.24%) Analytics
11 22 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.82%) Decision-Making
12 21 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (7.98%) Microservices
13 19 (7.98%) Migration
14 18 (7.56%) Machine Learning
15 17 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (7.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.41%) Python
2 50 (21.01%) SQL
3 36 (15.13%) PowerShell
4 28 (11.76%) Java
5 26 (10.92%) C#
6 17 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.04%) Bicep
8 10 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.78%) Bash
10 5 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.26%) R
13 2 (0.84%) C
13 2 (0.84%) C++
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) VB
14 1 (0.42%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.42%) Perl
14 1 (0.42%) VBScript
14 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 43 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 14 (5.88%) Degree
4 13 (5.46%) CISSP
5 10 (4.20%) CISM
6 5 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.10%) GIAC
7 4 (1.68%) CCNP
7 4 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.26%) OSCP
9 2 (0.84%) CCSP
9 2 (0.84%) CEH
9 2 (0.84%) CISA
9 2 (0.84%) GPEN
9 2 (0.84%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.84%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.20%) GDPR
2 8 (3.36%) NIST
3 7 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.68%) PMO
5 4 (1.68%) QA
6 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.84%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 28 (11.76%) Docker
3 8 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.52%) XenApp
4 6 (2.52%) XenDesktop
5 5 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.10%) vSphere
6 3 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.26%) NFS
6 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 32 (13.45%) Terraform
3 28 (11.76%) Ansible
4 14 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.78%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (3.78%) Podman
6 7 (2.94%) Puppet
7 6 (2.52%) WSUS
8 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.26%) SCCM
11 2 (0.84%) Grafana
11 2 (0.84%) QRadar
12 1 (0.42%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.42%) CASB
12 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 71 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.66%) Databricks
3 14 (5.88%) VMware
4 12 (5.04%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.36%) SAP
5 8 (3.36%) Virgin Media
6 7 (2.94%) Citrix
7 5 (2.10%) Dell
7 5 (2.10%) Google
7 5 (2.10%) HP
7 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.68%) Cisco
8 4 (1.68%) Oracle
8 4 (1.68%) Splunk
9 3 (1.26%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.26%) UiPath
10 2 (0.84%) IBM
10 2 (0.84%) Juniper
10 2 (0.84%) Spotify