Azure Engineer Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Reading is £613, 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 44 79 70
Rank change year-on-year +35 -9 0
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 16 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 1.01% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 1.08% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile - £413 £468
25th Percentile £563 £480 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.58% +13.10%
75th Percentile £666 £613 £627
90th Percentile £683 £638 £669
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +4.95%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Telecoms
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) Databricks
4 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (37.50%) Finance
6 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (37.50%) Programme Management
6 6 (37.50%) Electronics
6 6 (37.50%) Marketing
6 6 (37.50%) SAP
6 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
7 5 (31.25%) Python
7 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (31.25%) Virgin Media
8 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
8 4 (25.00%) SQL
8 4 (25.00%) ETL
9 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 3 (18.75%) Agile
9 3 (18.75%) Validation
9 3 (18.75%) YAML
9 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 3 (18.75%) Data Governance

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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (6.25%) Collibra
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SpecFlow
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 10 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (37.50%) Electronics
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 6 (37.50%) Marketing
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
3 6 (37.50%) Programme Management
4 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) CQRS
6 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Databricks
2 6 (37.50%) SAP
3 5 (31.25%) Virgin Media
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) UiPath
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