Azure Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 138 23 9
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 41.19% 20.18% 13.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 82.14% 79.31% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 10 6
10th Percentile £219 £350 £550
25th Percentile £306 £394 £655
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £731
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -21.37% +284.87%
75th Percentile £500 - £844
90th Percentile £540 - £906
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 168 29 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 50.15% 25.44% 46.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 15 14
10th Percentile £219 £313 £450
25th Percentile £313 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +0.42% +152.63%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £692
90th Percentile £625 - £840
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £570 £570
% change year-on-year -13.68% - +5.36%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Azure job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Wokingham over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Wokingham

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 6 (4.35%) GeoServer
1 6 (4.35%) Smallworld
2 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (58.70%) AWS
2 57 (41.30%) GCP
3 15 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.97%) Azure AKS
6 10 (7.25%) Azure Storage
6 10 (7.25%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.25%) IaaS
7 5 (3.62%) PaaS
8 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.45%) GitHub
10 2 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) DNS
2 18 (13.04%) DHCP
3 13 (9.42%) TCP/IP
3 13 (9.42%) VLAN
4 7 (5.07%) Firewall
5 5 (3.62%) FTP
5 5 (3.62%) Wireless
6 4 (2.90%) NAS
6 4 (2.90%) SAN
7 3 (2.17%) Network Security
8 2 (1.45%) BGP
8 2 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.45%) LAN
8 2 (1.45%) OSPF
8 2 (1.45%) VPN
8 2 (1.45%) WAN
8 2 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (4.35%) GIS
1 6 (4.35%) QGIS
2 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.17%) Metadata
4 2 (1.45%) Big Data
4 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.52%) Git
3 5 (3.62%) Burp Suite
3 5 (3.62%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.45%) Postman
4 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.72%) JIRA
5 1 (0.72%) NUnit
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 62 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (21.74%) Architect
2 20 (14.49%) Lead
3 18 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Infrastructure Support
5 11 (7.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Azure Architect
8 8 (5.80%) Analyst
8 8 (5.80%) Site Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 6 (4.35%) Tester
10 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Penetration Tester
10 5 (3.62%) Test Manager
10 5 (3.62%) Wintel Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.14%) LDAP
2 8 (5.80%) ADO
3 5 (3.62%) .NET
4 4 (2.90%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.17%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.17%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.45%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.45%) Pandas
6 2 (1.45%) React
6 2 (1.45%) RESTful
6 2 (1.45%) SOAP
6 2 (1.45%) Swagger
6 2 (1.45%) WSDL
6 2 (1.45%) XSLT
6 2 (1.45%) YAML
7 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.72%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.72%) NumPy
7 1 (0.72%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.17%) Replication
8 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.94%) Linux
1 22 (15.94%) Windows
2 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.51%) DevOps
2 48 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (28.99%) CI/CD
4 39 (28.26%) Service Management
5 38 (27.54%) ITIL
6 34 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (20.29%) ITSM
9 27 (19.57%) Change Management
9 27 (19.57%) Performance Metrics
10 23 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (12.32%) Agile
11 17 (12.32%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (11.59%) DevSecOps
13 15 (10.87%) Containerisation
13 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (10.14%) SIEM
15 13 (9.42%) AI
15 13 (9.42%) Machine Learning
16 12 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.46%) Python
2 14 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.97%) SQL
4 6 (4.35%) Bash
5 5 (3.62%) C#
6 4 (2.90%) Bicep
6 4 (2.90%) Go
6 4 (2.90%) Java
7 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (55.80%) Security Cleared
2 74 (53.62%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) Azure Certification
4 14 (10.14%) CISM
4 14 (10.14%) CISSP
5 13 (9.42%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (8.70%) Degree
7 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (7.97%) Server+ Certification
8 5 (3.62%) CHECK Team Member
8 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.62%) CREST Certified
8 5 (3.62%) Cyber Scheme
8 5 (3.62%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 5 (3.62%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.62%) Postgraduate
8 5 (3.62%) RHCE
9 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.67%) GDPR
1 23 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (10.14%) NIST
3 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.62%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.90%) PMO
5 4 (2.90%) QA
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.70%) Docker
4 11 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.35%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.49%) Terraform
3 12 (8.70%) Ansible
4 6 (4.35%) Argo
4 6 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.62%) Nmap
6 2 (1.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Google
2 22 (15.94%) VMware
3 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.14%) BeyondTrust
4 14 (10.14%) CyberArk
5 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
6 10 (7.25%) Pure Storage
6 10 (7.25%) Red Hat
6 10 (7.25%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.35%) ESRI
7 6 (4.35%) Intergraph
7 6 (4.35%) OpenAI
7 6 (4.35%) Virgin Media
8 5 (3.62%) Citrix
8 5 (3.62%) Workday
9 4 (2.90%) EMC
9 4 (2.90%) NetApp
10 3 (2.17%) Palantir
11 2 (1.45%) Cisco
11 2 (1.45%) Juniper