Azure Certification Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Certification
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 52 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +38 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 8 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.084% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.40% 0.19% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile - - £502
25th Percentile £625 £605 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £610 £543
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +12.34% +5.95%
75th Percentile £684 £615 £688
90th Percentile £688 - £725
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +30.00% -7.92% +5.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Reading

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Reading

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure API Management
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) NGFW
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SSDT
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (12.50%) HBase
4 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
4 1 (12.50%) Impala
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
2 3 (37.50%) YAML
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) ETL
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (62.50%) B2B
4 5 (62.50%) B2C
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Management
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) RBAC
4 5 (62.50%) Release Management
5 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
7 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (25.00%) Microservices
8 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 1 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
8 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Flume
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) UiPath
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) StreamSets