Azure Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 208 190 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 17.87% 18.74% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 59.43% 57.75% 45.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 159 168
10th Percentile £425 £500 £363
25th Percentile £501 £525 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £590 £565
% change year-on-year +1.69% +4.47% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £56.50 £60.51 -
25th Percentile £56.58 £72.52 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% - -
75th Percentile £59.95 - -
90th Percentile £60.61 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £85.00
% change year-on-year -26.38% -6.84% -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 350 329 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.07% 32.45% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 255 331
10th Percentile £375 £418 £184
25th Percentile £486 £502 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +9.76% -1.59%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £619
90th Percentile £688 £725 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.58 £58.94 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £77.35 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +218.95% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £79.19 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.61 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £39.15 £21.05
% change year-on-year +48.91% +85.99% +41.80%

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 7 May 2024.

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 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Jadu
4 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (8.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (3.37%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.92%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.48%) Maximo
5 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.88%) Azure DevOps
2 47 (22.60%) Azure Monitor
3 40 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 31 (14.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (12.98%) AWS
6 26 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (11.06%) Azure Functions
7 23 (11.06%) Serverless
8 18 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (7.69%) Azure Storage
10 14 (6.73%) OCI
11 13 (6.25%) Power Platform
12 12 (5.77%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (3.85%) GCP
13 8 (3.85%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.37%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.88%) Azure API Management
15 6 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (2.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.83%) Firewall
2 32 (15.38%) DNS
3 30 (14.42%) DHCP
4 14 (6.73%) SAN
5 2 (0.96%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.48%) Network Security
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) SSL
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.10%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.25%) Power BI
3 10 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.92%) GIS
5 4 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.92%) Redis
5 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.96%) MySQL
7 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.96%) Tableau
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (12.50%) Git
2 20 (9.62%) JIRA
2 20 (9.62%) Selenium
3 14 (6.73%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.25%) GitLab
5 12 (5.77%) REST Assured
5 12 (5.77%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.85%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.88%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.44%) JMeter
8 3 (1.44%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.96%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.48%) MSTest
10 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 72 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.73%) Finance
4 11 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.33%) Law
6 8 (3.85%) Police
7 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Marketing
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) French Language
11 1 (0.48%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (22.60%) Developer
2 26 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
3 24 (11.54%) Active Directory Specialist
3 24 (11.54%) Azure Specialist
3 24 (11.54%) Support Specialist
4 23 (11.06%) Senior
5 20 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (9.13%) Analyst
6 19 (9.13%) Azure Developer
6 19 (9.13%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 12 (5.77%) Architect
10 11 (5.29%) Consultant
11 10 (4.81%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Administrator
12 9 (4.33%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.33%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.33%) Test Analyst
13 8 (3.85%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.31%) ARM Templates
2 22 (10.58%) React
3 16 (7.69%) REST
4 13 (6.25%) Java EE
5 9 (4.33%) Itk
5 9 (4.33%) Node.js
6 8 (3.85%) .NET
6 8 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.85%) XML
7 6 (2.88%) JSON
8 5 (2.40%) Django
8 5 (2.40%) OAuth
8 5 (2.40%) OpenID
9 4 (1.92%) Celery
9 4 (1.92%) CSS
9 4 (1.92%) GeoPandas
9 4 (1.92%) OpenLayers
9 4 (1.92%) PostGIS
9 4 (1.92%) SOAP
9 4 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.65%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.17%) PKI
3 16 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.37%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.92%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.48%) BYOD
9 1 (0.48%) CSOC
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.48%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 50 (24.04%) Windows
2 46 (22.12%) Linux
3 40 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 32 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 32 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (6.73%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (6.73%) Windows XP
6 7 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.44%) Unix
8 1 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (61.06%) DevOps
2 65 (31.25%) Agile
3 56 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 47 (22.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (14.42%) ITIL
7 29 (13.94%) Test Automation
8 25 (12.02%) Analytics
9 24 (11.54%) Release Management
10 22 (10.58%) Full Stack Development
11 21 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (9.62%) Break/Fix
12 20 (9.62%) Containerisation
12 20 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (9.62%) Identity Management
12 20 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (9.62%) SDLC
13 18 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (8.65%) Service Management
14 17 (8.17%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 36 (17.31%) Python
3 31 (14.90%) C#
4 23 (11.06%) VBScript
5 22 (10.58%) SQL
6 17 (8.17%) Bicep
6 17 (8.17%) Java
7 16 (7.69%) VB
8 9 (4.33%) C
9 4 (1.92%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.44%) PHP
10 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.96%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.40%) DV Cleared
3 56 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 41 (19.71%) Degree
5 16 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.73%) CCNA
6 14 (6.73%) CCNP
6 14 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) CBAP
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) CEH
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) CSPO
8 1 (0.48%) IIBA
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) QA
2 4 (1.92%) GDPR
3 3 (1.44%) PMO
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.58%) Docker
4 16 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.73%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.73%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 41 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 31 (14.90%) SCCM
3 30 (14.42%) SCOM
3 30 (14.42%) WSUS
4 26 (12.50%) Terraform
5 17 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (7.21%) Ansible
8 14 (6.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (6.73%) NetBackup
8 14 (6.73%) vCenter Server
9 12 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (5.77%) Podman
10 8 (3.85%) Istio
11 7 (3.37%) Rancher
12 2 (0.96%) Grafana
13 1 (0.48%) Graylog
13 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.83%) Oracle
3 24 (11.54%) VMware
4 16 (7.69%) Cisco
4 16 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 14 (6.73%) 3PAR
5 14 (6.73%) Dell
5 14 (6.73%) EMC
5 14 (6.73%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (6.73%) HP
5 14 (6.73%) Juniper
5 14 (6.73%) Symantec
5 14 (6.73%) Veeam
6 8 (3.85%) Google
7 5 (2.40%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.92%) Databricks
8 4 (1.92%) Okta
9 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.96%) SAP