Azure Contracts in Windsor

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Windsor

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Windsor 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 13 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure 22 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Windsor 33.85% 4.35% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.66% 7.41% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 0
10th Percentile £453 £521 -
25th Percentile £481 £542 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% - -
75th Percentile £506 £692 -
90th Percentile £588 £727 -
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -10.33% +1.69% +5.36%

All Cloud Skills
Windsor

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 Windsor.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 41 27 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Windsor 63.08% 58.70% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 2
10th Percentile £454 £503 -
25th Percentile - £544 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £508 £656 £475
90th Percentile £598 £750 -
Berkshire median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.73% - +10.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Windsor

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Windsor

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Windsor

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Windsor

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Windsor

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Windsor over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Windsor

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Windsor 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) IaaS
4 4 (18.18%) PaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Big Data
2 4 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.09%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Postman
3 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
1 2 (9.09%) JDBC
1 2 (9.09%) jQuery
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
1 2 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (9.09%) OAuth
1 2 (9.09%) OpenID
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
1 2 (9.09%) SAML
1 2 (9.09%) SOAP
1 2 (9.09%) Web Services
1 2 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Smart Meter
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Ubuntu
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) High Availability
3 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Server Building
5 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Information Security
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 2 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (9.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bicep
5 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) R
5 2 (9.09%) SOQL
6 1 (4.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) CISA
1 1 (4.55%) CISM
1 1 (4.55%) CISSP
1 1 (4.55%) GCIA
1 1 (4.55%) GCIH
1 1 (4.55%) GIAC
1 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk