Azure Engineer Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Reading is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 72 76
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 13 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.10% 1.65% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.72% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 23
10th Percentile £413 £468 £438
25th Percentile £485 £523 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +13.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £611 £627 £650
90th Percentile £638 £669 £724
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £556 £525
% change year-on-year +3.37% +5.95% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,096 988 1,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £177
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Reading

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Reading

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Reading

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Azure Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 4 (30.77%) Power BI
5 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
5 4 (30.77%) Degree
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) ETL
5 4 (30.77%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
5 4 (30.77%) Ab Initio
6 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
6 3 (23.08%) Service Management
6 3 (23.08%) Unix
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) XML
6 3 (23.08%) Python

Azure Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (23.08%) Smart Meter
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) BYOD
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) ETL Development
4 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
4 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) Release Management
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bicep
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) VB
4 2 (15.38%) VBScript
5 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (15.38%) SCOM
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Ab Initio
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) BMC
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow