Azure Developer Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in Reading is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 17 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.85% 1.59% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 1.71% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
10th Percentile £584 £519 £525
25th Percentile £613 £613 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +7.62%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile - £688 -
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +7.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in Reading

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in Reading

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in Reading

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (82.35%) Python
3 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 13 (76.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (76.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 13 (76.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (58.82%) Serverless
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) Java
5 9 (52.94%) Selenium
5 9 (52.94%) React
6 8 (47.06%) Microservices
6 8 (47.06%) Azure Functions
7 7 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
7 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
7 7 (41.18%) Git
7 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
8 6 (35.29%) ADO
8 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (35.29%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (35.29%) SDLC
8 6 (35.29%) Product Backlog
8 6 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
8 6 (35.29%) Azure API Management
9 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
9 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
9 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
10 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills

Azure Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 13 (76.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (58.82%) Serverless
4 8 (47.06%) Azure Functions
5 7 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (35.29%) Azure API Management
6 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
9 2 (11.76%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) React
2 6 (35.29%) ADO
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Prisma
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
1 6 (35.29%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
1 13 (76.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Product Backlog
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) API Development
8 2 (11.76%) Change Management
8 2 (11.76%) Release Management
8 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.88%) API Design
9 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
9 1 (5.88%) Cost Management
9 1 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
9 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
9 1 (5.88%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Spotify
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAI