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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 298 224 268
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 16.45% 19.24% 14.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.31% 56.57% 52.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 143 213
10th Percentile £350 £352 £413
25th Percentile £406 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -10.00% +1.69%
75th Percentile £599 £620 £638
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 10
10th Percentile £31.25 £38.70 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.34 £51.38 £56.65
Median hourly rate £97.23 £74.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +26.93% -26.38%
75th Percentile £104.00 £76.35 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £76.85 -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £52.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +55.45% +37.01% -48.67%

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 520 396 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.71% 34.02% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 246 356
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -4.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £617
90th Percentile £665 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 22
10th Percentile £27.86 £24.66 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.31 £29.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% -45.03% +150.21%
75th Percentile £103.44 £61.75 £61.58
90th Percentile £108.28 £77.19 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +66.67% +22.77% -3.27%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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
Wokingham -1 143 £425 -15.00% 10
Reading -3 134 £538 -6.52% 46
Windsor -12 4 £475 -5.00% 15
Maidenhead - 3 £475 - 3
Bracknell -4 2 £450 -25.00% 5
Slough +4 1 £600 - 6
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 21 (7.05%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.02%) Confluence
3 4 (1.34%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.34%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Primavera
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 110 (36.91%) AWS
2 90 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (19.13%) GCP
4 53 (17.79%) Entra ID
5 26 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (8.39%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (6.04%) OCI
9 16 (5.37%) SaaS
10 15 (5.03%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (4.70%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.36%) PaaS
13 12 (4.03%) IaaS
14 10 (3.36%) GitHub
15 9 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (2.68%) Azure Functions
16 8 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (2.68%) PowerApps
16 8 (2.68%) Serverless
17 7 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.75%) Firewall
2 27 (9.06%) DNS
3 25 (8.39%) DHCP
4 20 (6.71%) LAN
4 20 (6.71%) WAN
5 16 (5.37%) VPN
6 15 (5.03%) Network Security
7 14 (4.70%) BGP
7 14 (4.70%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.36%) TCP/IP
9 12 (4.03%) FTP
9 12 (4.03%) Wireless
10 10 (3.36%) OSPF
11 9 (3.02%) MPLS
12 7 (2.35%) SSL
12 7 (2.35%) VLAN
13 6 (2.01%) WLAN
14 4 (1.34%) IPsec
14 4 (1.34%) MQTT
15 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.38%) Power BI
2 10 (3.36%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (2.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 7 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) GIS
9 3 (1.01%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.01%) Parquet
10 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.67%) Metadata
10 2 (0.67%) QGIS
10 2 (0.67%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (7.38%) Git
2 15 (5.03%) JIRA
3 14 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.03%) Burp Suite
4 12 (4.03%) Metasploit
5 5 (1.68%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.67%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) MSI
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.38%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.38%) Aerospace
5 19 (6.38%) Finance
6 11 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.35%) Retail
10 5 (1.68%) Billing
11 3 (1.01%) Police
12 2 (0.67%) Legal
12 2 (0.67%) Military
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (16.11%) Architect
2 35 (11.74%) Analyst
3 29 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (9.06%) Senior
5 24 (8.05%) Lead
6 17 (5.70%) Developer
6 17 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.03%) Penetration Tester
9 10 (3.36%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.36%) Test Analyst
9 10 (3.36%) Tester
10 9 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.02%) Oracle Analyst
10 9 (3.02%) Platform Architect
10 9 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.02%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.37%) ADO
2 15 (5.03%) LDAP
2 15 (5.03%) REST
3 10 (3.36%) .NET
4 8 (2.68%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.68%) Middleware
4 8 (2.68%) OAuth
5 7 (2.35%) SAML
6 6 (2.01%) Kafka
6 6 (2.01%) SOAP
7 5 (1.68%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.68%) OpenID
7 5 (1.68%) Pandas
7 5 (1.68%) pytest
7 5 (1.68%) RESTful
7 5 (1.68%) YAML
8 4 (1.34%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.34%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.34%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.03%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.02%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.01%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.01%) PKI
9 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.68%) CMDB
10 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.34%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.12%) Windows
2 22 (7.38%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.36%) Linux
4 5 (1.68%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.01%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (49.66%) DevOps
2 80 (26.85%) CI/CD
3 61 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (16.78%) Agile
6 44 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (13.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (10.07%) ITIL
9 29 (9.73%) Analytics
9 29 (9.73%) Root Cause Analysis
10 28 (9.40%) Roadmaps
11 25 (8.39%) Containerisation
11 25 (8.39%) SIEM
12 24 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (7.72%) DevSecOps
14 21 (7.05%) ITSM
15 20 (6.71%) RBAC
16 19 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (6.38%) Change Management
16 19 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (22.15%) Python
2 40 (13.42%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.05%) SQL
4 15 (5.03%) Java
5 14 (4.70%) Bicep
6 12 (4.03%) Bash
6 12 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.69%) Go
8 8 (2.68%) C#
9 5 (1.68%) VBScript
10 4 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.01%) PHP
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) X++
13 1 (0.34%) C++
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 122 (40.94%) Security Cleared
2 98 (32.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.05%) CISSP
4 22 (7.38%) Degree
5 20 (6.71%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.37%) CISM
7 13 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.36%) CREST Certified
8 12 (4.03%) CHECK Team Member
8 12 (4.03%) Cyber Scheme
9 10 (3.36%) Postgraduate
10 9 (3.02%) CCNP
11 8 (2.68%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.35%) PMP
13 6 (2.01%) CCIE
14 5 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (1.68%) RHCE
14 5 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (1.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (11.07%) GDPR
3 22 (7.38%) NIST
4 19 (6.38%) QA
5 12 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.03%) PMO
6 9 (3.02%) NCSC
7 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.34%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.01%) GRC
9 3 (1.01%) SLA
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (20.81%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.71%) Docker
2 20 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.03%) Hyper-V
3 12 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) vSphere
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (15.44%) Terraform
2 40 (13.42%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (6.04%) Ansible
5 12 (4.03%) Nmap
6 5 (1.68%) Grafana
6 5 (1.68%) Nagios
6 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.34%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (1.01%) SCCM
8 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.67%) systemd
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.40%) Oracle
3 24 (8.05%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.72%) VMware
5 14 (4.70%) BeyondTrust
5 14 (4.70%) Cisco
5 14 (4.70%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.68%) Citrix
6 8 (2.68%) Juniper
6 8 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.68%) SAP
7 7 (2.35%) Databricks
7 7 (2.35%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.35%) Splunk
8 6 (2.01%) Google
9 5 (1.68%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.68%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.34%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.01%) LogRhythm