Azure Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 213 105 237
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 19.10% 17.98% 21.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 70.30% 40.23% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 72 175
10th Percentile £425 £360 £468
25th Percentile £521 £448 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £605
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.22% +0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £650
90th Percentile £751 £661 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 0 1
10th Percentile £43.18 - -
25th Percentile £71.11 - £69.06
Median hourly rate £86.08 - £69.38
75th Percentile £104.00 - £69.69
90th Percentile £110.75 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.00 - £48.94
% change year-on-year - - -22.32%

All Cloud Computing 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 303 261 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.17% 44.69% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 167 261
10th Percentile £424 £313 £375
25th Percentile £500 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £605
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -11.57% +0.83%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £663 £670
Berkshire median daily rate £521 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +4.25% -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 9 7
10th Percentile £35.22 - £24.05
25th Percentile £71.11 £14.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £86.08 £15.50 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +455.35% -74.42% +249.48%
75th Percentile £103.63 £16.25 £62.89
90th Percentile £110.75 £31.70 £66.71
Berkshire median hourly rate £82.21 £18.19 £50.27
% change year-on-year +352.05% -63.83% -10.47%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Azure job vacancy trend in Reading

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Reading over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Reading

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Reading over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Reading

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.35%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.94%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (39.91%) AWS
2 60 (28.17%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (23.00%) GCP
4 25 (11.74%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (7.04%) OpenShift
7 14 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.63%) SaaS
9 11 (5.16%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (4.23%) GitHub
11 9 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.29%) OCI
12 7 (3.29%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.41%) Azure Databricks
15 2 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.39%) DNS
2 15 (7.04%) DHCP
3 14 (6.57%) Firewall
3 14 (6.57%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.23%) VPN
5 6 (2.82%) LAN
5 6 (2.82%) WAN
6 5 (2.35%) BGP
6 5 (2.35%) MPLS
6 5 (2.35%) Network Security
7 3 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.47%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.63%) Power BI
2 11 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.29%) Big Data
4 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.88%) Spark SQL
5 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.69%) GitLab
1 10 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.76%) JIRA
3 7 (3.29%) Git
4 3 (1.41%) JMeter
5 2 (0.94%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.94%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 89 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.64%) Aerospace
3 22 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.04%) Finance
5 10 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.76%) Retail
7 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.88%) Billing
9 4 (1.88%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Military
11 2 (0.94%) Automotive
11 2 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 57 (26.76%) Architect
2 43 (20.19%) Lead
3 28 (13.15%) Senior
4 24 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.51%) Consultant
6 12 (5.63%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.23%) Analyst
7 9 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (4.23%) CyberArk Consultant
7 9 (4.23%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.23%) SIEM Engineer
8 8 (3.76%) Network Architect
8 8 (3.76%) Product Owner
8 8 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (3.76%) Technical Leader
8 8 (3.76%) Test Leader
9 7 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (2.82%) CyberArk Architect
10 6 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.78%) Terraform
2 19 (8.92%) LDAP
3 11 (5.16%) REST
4 10 (4.69%) PySpark
5 9 (4.23%) ARM Templates
5 9 (4.23%) OAuth
5 9 (4.23%) SAML
6 8 (3.76%) OpenID
7 5 (2.35%) .NET
7 5 (2.35%) ADO
7 5 (2.35%) NETCONF
7 5 (2.35%) SailPoint
7 5 (2.35%) Streamlit
7 5 (2.35%) YANG
8 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.41%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.41%) Middleware
9 3 (1.41%) React
10 2 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.94%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (12.21%) Product Ownership
3 24 (11.27%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.04%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.16%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.41%) IoT
10 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.94%) Clustering
11 2 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.27%) Windows
2 16 (7.51%) Linux
3 8 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.29%) macOS
5 5 (2.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (46.01%) DevOps
2 87 (40.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (27.23%) Agile
4 56 (26.29%) CI/CD
5 44 (20.66%) Roadmaps
6 42 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (19.25%) Migration
8 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (17.84%) Technical Leadership
10 34 (15.96%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (15.49%) SIEM
12 31 (14.55%) Analytics
13 30 (14.08%) Enterprise Architecture
13 30 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (13.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 26 (12.21%) ITIL
16 24 (11.27%) DevSecOps
16 24 (11.27%) Privileged Access Management
16 24 (11.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.82%) Python
2 34 (15.96%) PowerShell
3 23 (10.80%) SQL
4 20 (9.39%) Bash
5 12 (5.63%) Bicep
6 9 (4.23%) Java
6 9 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.94%) C#
9 2 (0.94%) Magik
10 1 (0.47%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 109 (51.17%) Security Cleared
2 97 (45.54%) SC Cleared
3 41 (19.25%) Azure Certification
4 31 (14.55%) Degree
5 21 (9.86%) CISSP
6 19 (8.92%) AWS Certification
7 16 (7.51%) DV Cleared
8 15 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (3.76%) PMI Certification
11 8 (3.76%) PMP
12 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (2.35%) CCIE
13 5 (2.35%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.88%) CEH
14 4 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.88%) CSPO
14 4 (1.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.23%) NIST
3 7 (3.29%) QA
4 6 (2.82%) NCSC
5 5 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.88%) GDPR
6 4 (1.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.92%) Docker
3 8 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 8 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (16.43%) Ansible
2 32 (15.02%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (2.35%) Grafana
6 4 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.41%) Istio
7 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.94%) CASB
8 2 (0.94%) SCCM
9 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.47%) QRadar
9 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 95 (44.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.39%) CyberArk
3 17 (7.98%) SAP
4 15 (7.04%) Google
5 14 (6.57%) Databricks
6 12 (5.63%) Oracle
7 11 (5.16%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.23%) VMware
9 5 (2.35%) Okta
9 5 (2.35%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.88%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.88%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.41%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.94%) Apple
12 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.94%) Foundry
12 2 (0.94%) Splunk
13 1 (0.47%) Aruba
13 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto