Azure Contracts in Slough

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough 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 17 14 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 5.63% 1.32% 10.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.36% 16.67% 54.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile £314 - £370
25th Percentile £466 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £401 £525
Median % change year-on-year +49.81% -23.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £656 £401 £625
90th Percentile £668 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £594 £588
% change year-on-year -8.25% +1.11% +4.44%

All Cloud Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11 6 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 15.49% 7.89% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 30
10th Percentile £206 £381 £348
25th Percentile £213 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £625
90th Percentile £655 £556 £635
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.20
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.64%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - £22.80
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 Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Slough

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Slough

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Slough

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Slough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) PgMP
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk