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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 329 280 279
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 18.11% 22.84% 16.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.84% 53.13% 55.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 177 205
10th Percentile £357 £309 £418
25th Percentile £440 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £630 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £663 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -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 £61.19
% change year-on-year +128.87% -46.44% -7.99%

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 532 527 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.28% 42.99% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 319 325
10th Percentile £353 £265 £375
25th Percentile £450 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £613 £588 £638
90th Percentile £665 £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 74 17 15
10th Percentile £21.31 - £19.88
25th Percentile £32.43 £14.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -67.49% +65.84%
75th Percentile £100.63 £32.31 £62.89
90th Percentile £110.75 £43.39 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £18.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +185.60% -60.38% +75.93%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -3 206 £604 +15.00% 117
Wokingham -2 91 £475 +11.76% 16
Windsor -9 10 £463 -7.50% 13
Slough +1 6 £480 +3.78% 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 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.74%) Confluence
3 7 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.61%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.30%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.30%) Predix
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.91%) 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
1 140 (42.55%) AWS
2 83 (25.23%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (24.32%) GCP
4 52 (15.81%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.86%) GitHub
7 16 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (4.86%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.65%) Azure AKS
10 12 (3.65%) SaaS
11 11 (3.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (3.34%) OneDrive
12 9 (2.74%) Azure App Service
12 9 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (2.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (13.68%) DNS
2 32 (9.73%) DHCP
3 28 (8.51%) Firewall
3 28 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.56%) VPN
5 14 (4.26%) LAN
6 13 (3.95%) Network Security
6 13 (3.95%) WAN
7 9 (2.74%) BGP
8 8 (2.43%) DNSSEC
9 7 (2.13%) MPLS
9 7 (2.13%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.52%) FTP
10 5 (1.52%) SSL
10 5 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.91%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.91%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.91%) Wireless
12 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.56%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.65%) Power BI
4 8 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.13%) Big Data
6 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.22%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.91%) Parquet
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.61%) Metadata
10 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.61%) Tableau
11 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.86%) Git
3 12 (3.65%) GitLab
3 12 (3.65%) JIRA
4 4 (1.22%) JMeter
5 3 (0.91%) LoadRunner
5 3 (0.91%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.61%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 127 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.45%) Aerospace
3 41 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.29%) Finance
5 13 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.34%) Billing
7 11 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.04%) Retail
9 7 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Military
11 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Publishing
12 2 (0.61%) Automotive
12 2 (0.61%) Banking
12 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 74 (22.49%) Architect
2 44 (13.37%) Lead
3 29 (8.81%) Senior
4 28 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (6.99%) Developer
6 19 (5.78%) Consultant
7 15 (4.56%) Analyst
7 15 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 11 (3.34%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.04%) IT Support
10 10 (3.04%) Network Architect
11 9 (2.74%) CyberArk Consultant
11 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (2.74%) Product Owner
11 9 (2.74%) Technical Leader
12 8 (2.43%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.43%) SIEM Engineer
12 8 (2.43%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (20.97%) Terraform
2 26 (7.90%) LDAP
2 26 (7.90%) REST
3 22 (6.69%) OAuth
4 19 (5.78%) SAML
5 15 (4.56%) .NET
5 15 (4.56%) OpenID
6 13 (3.95%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.65%) RESTful
8 11 (3.34%) PySpark
9 8 (2.43%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.13%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.13%) .NET Framework
10 7 (2.13%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.13%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.13%) Swagger
11 6 (1.82%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.82%) JWT
11 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 30 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.60%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.78%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.86%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.82%) PKI
10 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.52%) IoT
10 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.52%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.22%) CMDB
11 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.91%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.84%) Windows
2 23 (6.99%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.69%) Linux
4 12 (3.65%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.65%) Mac OS
5 9 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.91%) 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
1 145 (44.07%) DevOps
2 97 (29.48%) CI/CD
3 96 (29.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (25.23%) Agile
5 72 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (16.72%) Roadmaps
8 54 (16.41%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (16.11%) Analytics
10 51 (15.50%) Technical Leadership
11 50 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (14.59%) Migration
13 41 (12.46%) Identity Access Management
13 41 (12.46%) SIEM
14 39 (11.85%) ITIL
15 37 (11.25%) Containerisation
16 36 (10.94%) Enterprise Architecture
17 33 (10.03%) DevSecOps
18 32 (9.73%) AI
18 32 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.88%) Python
2 67 (20.36%) PowerShell
3 37 (11.25%) SQL
4 28 (8.51%) Bash
5 16 (4.86%) Bicep
6 15 (4.56%) Java
7 8 (2.43%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.13%) C#
9 6 (1.82%) Go
10 5 (1.52%) X++
11 2 (0.61%) Magik
11 2 (0.61%) VBScript
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) R
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 143 (43.47%) Security Cleared
2 126 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (14.89%) Azure Certification
4 33 (10.03%) Degree
5 32 (9.73%) CISSP
6 27 (8.21%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.34%) CISM
10 11 (3.34%) PMI Certification
10 11 (3.34%) PMP
11 9 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (2.43%) DV Cleared
13 7 (2.13%) CCIE
14 6 (1.82%) CCNP
14 6 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (1.52%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.08%) NIST
3 18 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.65%) QA
5 10 (3.04%) GDPR
6 6 (1.82%) NCSC
7 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.52%) GRC
8 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.91%) 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 68 (20.67%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.12%) Docker
3 27 (8.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (6.08%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.34%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.82%) vSphere
8 4 (1.22%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.46%) Ansible
3 27 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.04%) Grafana
4 10 (3.04%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.13%) SCCM
5 7 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.52%) SCOM
7 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.91%) Istio
8 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) CASB
9 2 (0.61%) 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
1 150 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.03%) VMware
3 28 (8.51%) Google
4 26 (7.90%) CyberArk
5 24 (7.29%) ServiceNow
6 18 (5.47%) Databricks
7 15 (4.56%) SAP
8 12 (3.65%) Oracle
9 11 (3.34%) Cisco
10 10 (3.04%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.43%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.43%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.43%) SolarWinds
11 8 (2.43%) Splunk
12 7 (2.13%) Okta
13 6 (1.82%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.82%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (1.52%) Citrix
14 5 (1.52%) ForgeRock