Azure Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 268 269 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.74% 14.99% 12.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.15% 52.23% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 212 260
10th Percentile £413 £458 £397
25th Percentile £500 £513 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £591 £570
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +3.73% +10.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £630
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £56.10 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £61.50 £82.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% -6.84% +41.67%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £67.50 £57.83
% change year-on-year -42.96% +16.73% +102.89%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 524 515 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 26.86% 28.71% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 369 524
10th Percentile £325 £385 £190
25th Percentile £455 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 13
10th Percentile £20.49 £18.80 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £55.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +161.28% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £79.19 £77.82
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
% change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%

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 4 May 2024.

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
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 4 May 2024. 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 0 211 £600 -0.83% 43
Bracknell +9 24 £500 - 1
Wokingham -2 13 £600 +11.63% 1
Newbury 0 4 £438 +25.00% 3
Maidenhead -1 3 £550 +37.50% 3
Slough -3 1 £401 -23.71% 6
Windsor -10 1 £700 - 5
Crowthorne - 1 - -
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 20 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Jadu
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (6.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (3.36%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.99%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.37%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.49%) Azure DevOps
2 52 (19.40%) Azure Monitor
3 46 (17.16%) Entra ID
4 41 (15.30%) AWS
5 33 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 24 (8.96%) Azure Functions
7 24 (8.96%) Serverless
8 22 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (6.34%) Azure Storage
10 16 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (5.60%) PaaS
12 14 (5.22%) OCI
12 14 (5.22%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.48%) IaaS
14 12 (4.48%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.73%) Azure API Management
16 9 (3.36%) Azure Cognitive Search
17 8 (2.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.93%) Firewall
2 38 (14.18%) DNS
3 36 (13.43%) DHCP
4 14 (5.22%) SAN
5 9 (3.36%) SSL
6 6 (2.24%) VPN
7 4 (1.49%) Network Security
7 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
9 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.21%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.22%) Power BI
3 11 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.73%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.87%) Redis
6 4 (1.49%) GIS
6 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.12%) Big Data
7 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.75%) Tableau
9 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.82%) Git
2 25 (9.33%) JIRA
3 23 (8.58%) Selenium
4 15 (5.60%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.85%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.85%) GitLab
5 13 (4.85%) SonarQube
6 12 (4.48%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.10%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.87%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.49%) Postman
11 3 (1.12%) JMeter
11 3 (1.12%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.37%) Maven
12 1 (0.37%) NUnit
12 1 (0.37%) webpack
12 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 84 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.72%) Finance
4 15 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.36%) Law
6 8 (2.99%) Police
7 7 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) French Language
12 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.37%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (18.66%) Developer
2 31 (11.57%) Architect
3 28 (10.45%) Senior
4 27 (10.07%) Active Directory Support
5 26 (9.70%) Azure Specialist
6 25 (9.33%) Active Directory Specialist
6 25 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (9.33%) Support Specialist
7 23 (8.58%) Lead
8 21 (7.84%) Analyst
9 19 (7.09%) Azure Developer
9 19 (7.09%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.22%) Consultant
11 13 (4.85%) Administrator
11 13 (4.85%) Systems Administrator
12 11 (4.10%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 10 (3.73%) Lead Designer
13 10 (3.73%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.73%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.43%) ARM Templates
2 22 (8.21%) React
3 17 (6.34%) REST
4 16 (5.97%) .NET
5 13 (4.85%) Itk
5 13 (4.85%) Java EE
5 13 (4.85%) Node.js
6 12 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 11 (4.10%) Web Services
8 8 (2.99%) XML
9 7 (2.61%) CSS
9 7 (2.61%) YAML
10 6 (2.24%) HTML
10 6 (2.24%) JSON
11 5 (1.87%) Django
11 5 (1.87%) OAuth
11 5 (1.87%) OpenID
12 4 (1.49%) Celery
12 4 (1.49%) OpenLayers
12 4 (1.49%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.70%) PKI
2 20 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.61%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.49%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.37%) CSOC
10 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.37%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 63 (23.51%) Windows
2 55 (20.52%) Linux
3 50 (18.66%) Windows Server
4 36 (13.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 36 (13.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (5.60%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (5.22%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (58.21%) DevOps
2 75 (27.99%) Agile
3 64 (23.88%) CI/CD
4 48 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (13.43%) Test Automation
7 31 (11.57%) ITIL
8 30 (11.19%) Analytics
9 26 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (9.70%) Release Management
10 23 (8.58%) Full Stack Development
10 23 (8.58%) Microservices
11 22 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (7.84%) Identity Management
12 21 (7.84%) SDLC
13 20 (7.46%) Break/Fix
13 20 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (7.46%) Migration
13 20 (7.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (7.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.03%) PowerShell
2 43 (16.04%) Python
3 41 (15.30%) C#
4 26 (9.70%) SQL
5 24 (8.96%) VBScript
6 20 (7.46%) Java
7 17 (6.34%) Bicep
7 17 (6.34%) VB
8 15 (5.60%) C
9 9 (3.36%) PHP
10 8 (2.99%) C++
11 7 (2.61%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.12%) Ruby
12 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Bash
13 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 96 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 63 (23.51%) DV Cleared
4 56 (20.90%) Degree
5 17 (6.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (5.22%) CCNA
6 14 (5.22%) CCNP
6 14 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.75%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.75%) CBAP
9 2 (0.75%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) CSPO
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.48%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) GDPR
2 4 (1.49%) PMO
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 31 (11.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (9.70%) Docker
4 23 (8.58%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.34%) Hyper-V
5 17 (6.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 46 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.06%) WSUS
3 33 (12.31%) SCCM
4 32 (11.94%) SCOM
5 28 (10.45%) Terraform
6 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (6.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (6.34%) Ansible
8 17 (6.34%) vCenter Server
9 14 (5.22%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (5.22%) NetBackup
10 12 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (4.48%) Podman
11 11 (4.10%) Istio
12 7 (2.61%) Rancher
13 6 (2.24%) Grafana
14 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.75%) Graylog
15 2 (0.75%) Nagios
15 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.81%) Oracle
3 35 (13.06%) VMware
4 16 (5.97%) Cisco
4 16 (5.97%) Palo Alto
5 14 (5.22%) 3PAR
5 14 (5.22%) Dell
5 14 (5.22%) EMC
5 14 (5.22%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (5.22%) HP
5 14 (5.22%) Juniper
5 14 (5.22%) Symantec
5 14 (5.22%) Veeam
6 8 (2.99%) Google
7 5 (1.87%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.87%) Databricks
7 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.49%) Okta
9 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow