Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.97% 0.22% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.44% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +38.89% -5.26% -25.20%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Reading

Microsoft Purview 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 287 329 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 39.81% 36.51% 34.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 206 255
10th Percentile £271 £378 £421
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £670 £663 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 0
10th Percentile £44.80 £27.35 -
25th Percentile £78.00 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £84.00 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.65% - -
75th Percentile £96.25 £64.73 -
90th Percentile £103.30 £72.20 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £62.13
% change year-on-year +90.59% -31.59% +85.45%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Microsoft Purview job vacancy trend in Reading

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Microsoft Purview.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in Reading over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in Reading

Microsoft Purview
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 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) E-Discovery Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) E-Discovery
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (42.86%) Information Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable