Azure Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 266 280 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.93% 16.13% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.95% 54.26% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 224 246
10th Percentile £413 £463 £396
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +7.50% +6.64%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £658
South East median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £66.81 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £74.77 £82.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% -6.84% -
75th Percentile £61.60 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -48.67% +40.19% +87.72%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 512 516 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 26.81% 29.72% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 374 514
10th Percentile £328 £388 £190
25th Percentile £455 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £617 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £651
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 12
10th Percentile £20.49 £17.50 £16.73
25th Percentile £41.25 £20.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +7.00% +46.68%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £79.19 £79.11
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.05
% change year-on-year -1.84% +12.35% -2.21%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Berkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -1 214 £605 +0.83% 45
Bracknell +8 20 £500 - 2
Wokingham -4 13 £600 +11.63% 1
Newbury +2 4 £438 +25.00% 3
Maidenhead -4 3 £550 +37.50% 4
Slough -6 1 £401 -25.49% 6
Windsor -9 1 £700 - 10
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 20 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Jadu
4 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (6.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (3.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (3.01%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (3.01%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.38%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (27.44%) Azure DevOps
2 52 (19.55%) Azure Monitor
3 49 (18.42%) Entra ID
4 42 (15.79%) AWS
5 37 (13.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (11.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (10.53%) Azure Functions
7 28 (10.53%) Serverless
8 20 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (6.39%) Azure Storage
9 17 (6.39%) Power Platform
10 15 (5.64%) PaaS
11 14 (5.26%) OCI
12 13 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (4.51%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (4.51%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.14%) IaaS
15 10 (3.76%) Azure API Management
16 8 (3.01%) GCP
16 8 (3.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.91%) Firewall
2 36 (13.53%) DNS
3 34 (12.78%) DHCP
4 14 (5.26%) SAN
5 9 (3.38%) SSL
6 5 (1.88%) VPN
7 4 (1.50%) Network Security
8 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.38%) WAN
9 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.77%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.26%) Power BI
3 10 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.88%) Redis
6 4 (1.50%) GIS
7 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.13%) Big Data
7 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.75%) MySQL
8 2 (0.75%) Tableau
9 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (11.28%) Git
2 27 (10.15%) Selenium
3 25 (9.40%) JIRA
4 15 (5.64%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.89%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.89%) GitLab
5 13 (4.89%) SonarQube
6 12 (4.51%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.14%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.88%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.50%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.50%) Postman
11 3 (1.13%) JMeter
11 3 (1.13%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Maven
12 1 (0.38%) NUnit
12 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 81 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.77%) Finance
4 16 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.38%) Law
6 8 (3.01%) Police
7 7 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) French Language
12 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.38%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (20.30%) Developer
2 31 (11.65%) Architect
2 31 (11.65%) Senior
3 28 (10.53%) Active Directory Support
4 25 (9.40%) Active Directory Specialist
4 25 (9.40%) Azure Specialist
4 25 (9.40%) Support Specialist
5 23 (8.65%) Analyst
5 23 (8.65%) Full Stack Developer
5 23 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (8.27%) Azure Developer
7 19 (7.14%) Lead
8 15 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.26%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.89%) Administrator
10 13 (4.89%) Consultant
10 13 (4.89%) Systems Administrator
11 11 (4.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 11 (4.14%) Test Analyst
12 10 (3.76%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.91%) ARM Templates
2 26 (9.77%) React
3 17 (6.39%) REST
4 16 (6.02%) .NET
5 13 (4.89%) Itk
5 13 (4.89%) Java EE
6 11 (4.14%) Web Services
7 9 (3.38%) Node.js
8 8 (3.01%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.01%) XML
9 7 (2.63%) YAML
10 6 (2.26%) Django
10 6 (2.26%) JSON
11 5 (1.88%) OAuth
11 5 (1.88%) OpenID
12 4 (1.50%) Celery
12 4 (1.50%) CSS
12 4 (1.50%) GeoPandas
12 4 (1.50%) PostGIS
12 4 (1.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.40%) PKI
2 22 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.14%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.63%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.50%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) CSOC
10 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.18%) Windows
2 55 (20.68%) Linux
3 49 (18.42%) Windows Server
4 37 (13.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 37 (13.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (5.64%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (5.26%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.13%) Unix
9 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (59.77%) DevOps
2 74 (27.82%) Agile
3 65 (24.44%) CI/CD
4 48 (18.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (13.91%) Test Automation
7 31 (11.65%) ITIL
8 28 (10.53%) Analytics
9 27 (10.15%) Microservices
10 26 (9.77%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (9.77%) Release Management
11 24 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (8.65%) SDLC
13 22 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (7.89%) Change Management
14 21 (7.89%) Identity Management
15 20 (7.52%) Break/Fix
15 20 (7.52%) Containerisation
15 20 (7.52%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (7.52%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 48 (18.05%) Python
3 41 (15.41%) C#
4 24 (9.02%) Java
4 24 (9.02%) SQL
4 24 (9.02%) VBScript
5 18 (6.77%) Bicep
6 17 (6.39%) VB
7 16 (6.02%) C
8 8 (3.01%) C++
9 6 (2.26%) PHP
10 4 (1.50%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.13%) Ruby
11 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 96 (36.09%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 62 (23.31%) DV Cleared
4 55 (20.68%) Degree
5 17 (6.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (5.26%) CCNA
6 14 (5.26%) CCNP
6 14 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.75%) CBAP
9 1 (0.38%) CEH
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.14%) QA
2 4 (1.50%) GDPR
2 4 (1.50%) PMO
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 29 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (9.77%) Docker
4 22 (8.27%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (6.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 46 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.78%) WSUS
3 32 (12.03%) SCCM
3 32 (12.03%) SCOM
4 27 (10.15%) Terraform
5 19 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (6.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (6.02%) Ansible
7 16 (6.02%) vCenter Server
8 14 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (5.26%) NetBackup
9 12 (4.51%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (4.51%) Podman
10 11 (4.14%) Istio
11 7 (2.63%) Rancher
12 5 (1.88%) Grafana
13 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.38%) Graylog
14 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.91%) Oracle
3 33 (12.41%) VMware
4 16 (6.02%) Cisco
4 16 (6.02%) Palo Alto
5 14 (5.26%) 3PAR
5 14 (5.26%) Dell
5 14 (5.26%) EMC
5 14 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (5.26%) HP
5 14 (5.26%) Juniper
5 14 (5.26%) Symantec
5 14 (5.26%) Veeam
6 8 (3.01%) Google
7 5 (1.88%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.88%) Databricks
7 5 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.50%) Okta
9 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow