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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 107 225 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 19.14% 19.28% 19.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.53% 61.31% 60.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 189 173
10th Percentile £376 £425 £483
25th Percentile £465 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% -
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 186 367 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.27% 31.45% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 272 263
10th Percentile £350 £375 £409
25th Percentile £469 £479 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £674
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £31.70 £56.50 £62.20
25th Percentile £35.75 £56.65 £75.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% -26.38% +226.56%
75th Percentile £62.35 £60.60 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £61.17 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £23.30
% change year-on-year -45.03% +150.21% +3.56%

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 24 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 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.93%) CMS
1 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (22.43%) AWS
3 12 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (9.35%) Azure API Management
4 10 (9.35%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.41%) GCP
6 8 (7.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (7.48%) SaaS
7 7 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (6.54%) Serverless
8 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (3.74%) Figma
9 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.74%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (2.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) Firewall
2 2 (1.87%) BGP
2 2 (1.87%) MPLS
2 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.87%) VLAN
3 1 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.93%) Junos
3 1 (0.93%) LAN
3 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.93%) SMS
3 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.74%) Big Data
4 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.80%) SSDT
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.93%) HBase
6 1 (0.93%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.93%) Impala
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Selenium
2 14 (13.08%) JIRA
3 13 (12.15%) Git
3 13 (12.15%) Jenkins
4 12 (11.21%) Cucumber
5 11 (10.28%) GitLab
6 10 (9.35%) REST Assured
7 6 (5.61%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.74%) Vite
9 3 (2.80%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.87%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.87%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.87%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.87%) Snyk
11 1 (0.93%) ERwin
11 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.95%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.67%) Finance
4 5 (4.67%) Law
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Police
6 3 (2.80%) Billing
6 3 (2.80%) Electronics
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Legal
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (26.17%) Developer
2 12 (11.21%) Software Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Azure Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) Architect
4 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) React Developer
5 9 (8.41%) Java Engineer
5 9 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (8.41%) Senior
6 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Analyst
8 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 6 (5.61%) Tester
9 5 (4.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.67%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) CSS
1 15 (14.02%) HTML
2 12 (11.21%) React
2 12 (11.21%) REST
3 10 (9.35%) .NET
3 10 (9.35%) Java EE
4 8 (7.48%) ARM Templates
4 8 (7.48%) OAuth
5 7 (6.54%) ADO
6 6 (5.61%) Node.js
7 5 (4.67%) Web Services
8 4 (3.74%) Framer.js
9 3 (2.80%) PySpark
9 3 (2.80%) YAML
10 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.87%) FHIR
10 2 (1.87%) JSON
10 2 (1.87%) Next.js
10 2 (1.87%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (4.67%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
2 5 (4.67%) Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) DevOps
2 29 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (27.10%) Test Automation
3 25 (23.36%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.43%) Agile
5 19 (17.76%) Containerisation
6 16 (14.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (14.02%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.28%) Configuration Management
9 11 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (9.35%) Software Architecture
11 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
11 9 (8.41%) ETL
12 8 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.48%) Microservices
12 8 (7.48%) Migration
13 7 (6.54%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.17%) Python
2 20 (18.69%) Java
3 16 (14.95%) SQL
4 12 (11.21%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.35%) C#
7 8 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.74%) Bash
9 2 (1.87%) Bicep
9 2 (1.87%) C
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.93%) Perl
10 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) Degree
4 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.67%) CISSP
6 4 (3.74%) CISM
7 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.80%) OSCP
8 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.87%) GPEN
8 2 (1.87%) GWAPT
8 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.87%) OSCE
9 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) ISEB
9 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.87%) NIST
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) HL7
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (13.08%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.93%) XenApp
4 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.82%) Terraform
2 17 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.21%) Ansible
4 6 (5.61%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (5.61%) Podman
5 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) Databricks
3 7 (6.54%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.61%) Virgin Media
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) UiPath
8 2 (1.87%) Citrix
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.87%) Spotify
8 2 (1.87%) VMware
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco
9 1 (0.93%) Cramer
9 1 (0.93%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.93%) F5
9 1 (0.93%) Infor
9 1 (0.93%) Juniper
9 1 (0.93%) Okta
9 1 (0.93%) StreamSets