Azure Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure 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 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 130 217 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 21.78% 18.20% 16.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 64.68% 58.81% 54.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 183 144
10th Percentile £371 £425 £500
25th Percentile £450 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £688
90th Percentile £675 £685 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £594 £588
% change year-on-year -8.25% +1.11% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £60.51
25th Percentile - £56.58 £72.52
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 -
90th Percentile - £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £74.00 £58.30 £79.19
% change year-on-year +26.93% -26.38% -6.84%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Reading

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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 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.54%) Azure DevOps
2 31 (23.85%) AWS
3 20 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 15 (11.54%) Serverless
6 14 (10.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (10.77%) GCP
7 13 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (9.23%) Azure AKS
8 12 (9.23%) Azure Functions
9 11 (8.46%) Azure API Management
10 10 (7.69%) SaaS
11 8 (6.15%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (3.08%) Figma
14 4 (3.08%) Tricentis Tosca
15 3 (2.31%) Azure Pipelines
15 3 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) BGP
1 5 (3.85%) MPLS
1 5 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 5 (3.85%) VLAN
2 4 (3.08%) Network Security
3 3 (2.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.31%) NGFW
3 3 (2.31%) SSL
4 1 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.77%) Junos
4 1 (0.77%) LAN
4 1 (0.77%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.62%) Big Data
2 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.62%) Power BI
3 5 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.08%) Redis
5 3 (2.31%) SSDT
6 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.77%) HBase
7 1 (0.77%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.77%) Impala
7 1 (0.77%) Metadata
7 1 (0.77%) MySQL
7 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.92%) Selenium
2 19 (14.62%) Git
3 15 (11.54%) JIRA
4 13 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 12 (9.23%) Cucumber
6 11 (8.46%) GitLab
7 10 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.62%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.85%) Robot Framework
9 5 (3.85%) SpecFlow
10 4 (3.08%) Vite
11 2 (1.54%) Burp Suite
11 2 (1.54%) Metasploit
11 2 (1.54%) Snyk
12 1 (0.77%) ERwin
12 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (18.46%) Telecoms
4 12 (9.23%) Finance
5 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.38%) Electronics
6 7 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.38%) Marketing
7 5 (3.85%) Law
8 4 (3.08%) Police
9 2 (1.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.54%) Legal
9 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Developer
2 17 (13.08%) Azure Developer
3 16 (12.31%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (10.00%) Architect
6 12 (9.23%) React Developer
6 12 (9.23%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Senior
7 11 (8.46%) Tester
8 9 (6.92%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Automation Tester
10 6 (4.62%) Analyst
10 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.85%) Lead
11 5 (3.85%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) CSS
1 16 (12.31%) HTML
1 16 (12.31%) React
2 12 (9.23%) .NET
2 12 (9.23%) ADO
3 10 (7.69%) Java EE
3 10 (7.69%) REST
4 8 (6.15%) ARM Templates
5 7 (5.38%) OAuth
6 6 (4.62%) Node.js
7 5 (3.85%) PySpark
7 5 (3.85%) RESTful
7 5 (3.85%) YAML
8 4 (3.08%) Framer.js
8 4 (3.08%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.08%) Prisma
8 4 (3.08%) SAML
8 4 (3.08%) Web Services
9 3 (2.31%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.62%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) IoT
7 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.77%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.77%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.62%) Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Unix
5 2 (1.54%) AIX
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (54.62%) DevOps
2 34 (26.15%) Agile
2 34 (26.15%) Test Automation
3 31 (23.85%) CI/CD
3 31 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 19 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (13.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 17 (13.08%) Microservices
8 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 14 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (10.00%) Configuration Management
10 13 (10.00%) ETL
10 13 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (10.00%) SDLC
11 12 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.46%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (7.69%) Software Architecture
13 10 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (30.77%) Python
2 22 (16.92%) Java
3 21 (16.15%) SQL
4 12 (9.23%) C#
4 12 (9.23%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.92%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.08%) Bash
7 3 (2.31%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) C
8 2 (1.54%) C++
8 2 (1.54%) R
8 2 (1.54%) Ruby
9 1 (0.77%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.77%) Perl
9 1 (0.77%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.15%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.15%) CISSP
3 8 (6.15%) Degree
4 7 (5.38%) CISM
5 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.31%) OSCP
6 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.54%) GPEN
6 2 (1.54%) GWAPT
6 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.54%) OSCE
7 1 (0.77%) CCSP
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.77%) ISEB
7 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.77%) MCSE
7 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.08%) GDPR
1 4 (3.08%) NIST
1 4 (3.08%) PMO
1 4 (3.08%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.77%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (16.92%) Docker
2 15 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) XenApp
5 1 (0.77%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.08%) Ansible
2 17 (13.08%) Terraform
3 6 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (4.62%) Podman
4 5 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.08%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.08%) Puppet
6 3 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.54%) SCCM
8 1 (0.77%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) Databricks
3 9 (6.92%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.15%) SAP
5 6 (4.62%) Virgin Media
5 6 (4.62%) VMware
6 3 (2.31%) Oracle
6 3 (2.31%) UiPath
7 2 (1.54%) Citrix
7 2 (1.54%) Google
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.54%) Spotify
8 1 (0.77%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.77%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.77%) F5
8 1 (0.77%) Infor
8 1 (0.77%) Okta
8 1 (0.77%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.77%) StreamSets