Azure Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 231 207 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 19.58% 19.77% 13.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.76% 61.24% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 174 155
10th Percentile £425 £483 £398
25th Percentile £506 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.67% +9.49%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £600 £563
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £56.58 - -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% - -
75th Percentile £59.95 - -
90th Percentile £60.61 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £85.00
% change year-on-year -26.38% -6.84% -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 374 338 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.69% 32.28% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 262 317
10th Percentile £375 £400 £187
25th Percentile £475 £501 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +13.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £616
90th Percentile £688 £725 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £62.20 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +226.56% -
75th Percentile £60.60 - £33.00
90th Percentile £61.17 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Reading over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 23 (9.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Jadu
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (7.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (3.46%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.73%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.43%) Maximo
5 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.54%) Azure DevOps
2 56 (24.24%) Azure Monitor
3 51 (22.08%) Entra ID
4 35 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 31 (13.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 29 (12.55%) AWS
7 28 (12.12%) Azure Functions
7 28 (12.12%) Serverless
8 22 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (8.66%) Azure Storage
10 19 (8.23%) Power Platform
11 14 (6.06%) OCI
12 10 (4.33%) GCP
13 9 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (3.46%) Azure API Management
14 8 (3.46%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.03%) Azure AKS
16 6 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (2.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.32%) Firewall
2 36 (15.58%) DNS
3 34 (14.72%) DHCP
4 14 (6.06%) SAN
5 4 (1.73%) Network Security
5 4 (1.73%) VPN
6 3 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.30%) WAN
7 2 (0.87%) BGP
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.87%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.87%) IPsec
7 2 (0.87%) MPLS
7 2 (0.87%) OSPF
7 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.87%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.39%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.06%) Power BI
3 9 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.73%) GIS
6 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.73%) Redis
6 4 (1.73%) SSDT
7 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau
8 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.87%) MySQL
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (13.42%) Git
2 30 (12.99%) Selenium
3 21 (9.09%) JIRA
4 17 (7.36%) Cucumber
5 14 (6.06%) Jenkins
6 13 (5.63%) GitLab
7 12 (5.19%) REST Assured
7 12 (5.19%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.60%) JMeter
8 6 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.30%) Maven
10 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.43%) MSTest
11 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.63%) Finance
4 12 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.90%) Law
6 8 (3.46%) Police
7 7 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) French Language
13 1 (0.43%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (21.65%) Developer
2 34 (14.72%) Active Directory Support
3 27 (11.69%) Senior
4 24 (10.39%) Active Directory Specialist
4 24 (10.39%) Azure Specialist
4 24 (10.39%) Full Stack Developer
4 24 (10.39%) Support Specialist
5 23 (9.96%) Azure Developer
6 22 (9.52%) Analyst
7 21 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.49%) Consultant
9 15 (6.49%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.06%) Support Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Active Directory Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Test Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) Architect
12 12 (5.19%) Lead
13 11 (4.76%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 10 (4.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.45%) ARM Templates
2 26 (11.26%) React
3 14 (6.06%) REST
4 13 (5.63%) Java EE
5 9 (3.90%) Itk
5 9 (3.90%) Node.js
6 8 (3.46%) YAML
7 7 (3.03%) .NET
8 6 (2.60%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.60%) Django
8 6 (2.60%) XML
9 4 (1.73%) Celery
9 4 (1.73%) GeoPandas
9 4 (1.73%) JSON
9 4 (1.73%) OpenLayers
9 4 (1.73%) PostGIS
10 3 (1.30%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.30%) CSS
10 3 (1.30%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) PKI
2 20 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.66%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.49%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.46%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.46%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.73%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.43%) CSOC
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.38%) Windows
2 51 (22.08%) Linux
3 45 (19.48%) Windows Server
4 36 (15.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 36 (15.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (6.06%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (6.06%) Windows XP
6 8 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.30%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (60.61%) DevOps
2 79 (34.20%) Agile
3 63 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 52 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (17.32%) Test Automation
7 36 (15.58%) ITIL
8 29 (12.55%) Release Management
9 28 (12.12%) Analytics
10 27 (11.69%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (10.39%) Containerisation
11 24 (10.39%) Identity Management
12 23 (9.96%) SDLC
13 22 (9.52%) Service Management
14 21 (9.09%) Log Analytics
14 21 (9.09%) Microservices
14 21 (9.09%) RBAC
15 20 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (8.66%) Privileged Identity Management
15 20 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (22.08%) PowerShell
2 49 (21.21%) Python
3 33 (14.29%) C#
4 28 (12.12%) VBScript
5 27 (11.69%) Java
6 21 (9.09%) Bicep
6 21 (9.09%) SQL
7 20 (8.66%) VB
8 10 (4.33%) C
9 7 (3.03%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 85 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.14%) DV Cleared
2 65 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 45 (19.48%) Degree
4 20 (8.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 17 (7.36%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (6.93%) CCNA
6 16 (6.93%) CCNP
7 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.87%) CISSP
7 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CCSP
8 1 (0.43%) CEH
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) PMO
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) COBIT
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (32.47%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.52%) Docker
4 20 (8.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (8.66%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.06%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 46 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.72%) SCCM
2 34 (14.72%) SCOM
2 34 (14.72%) WSUS
3 30 (12.99%) Terraform
4 20 (8.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (6.49%) Ansible
6 14 (6.06%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (6.06%) NetBackup
6 14 (6.06%) vCenter Server
7 12 (5.19%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (5.19%) Podman
8 8 (3.46%) Istio
9 7 (3.03%) Rancher
10 2 (0.87%) Grafana
11 1 (0.43%) Graylog
11 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (29.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.72%) Oracle
3 25 (10.82%) VMware
4 18 (7.79%) Cisco
4 18 (7.79%) Palo Alto
5 16 (6.93%) Juniper
6 14 (6.06%) 3PAR
6 14 (6.06%) Dell
6 14 (6.06%) EMC
6 14 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (6.06%) HP
6 14 (6.06%) Symantec
6 14 (6.06%) Veeam
7 8 (3.46%) Google
8 5 (2.16%) Ab Initio
8 5 (2.16%) Databricks
9 4 (1.73%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.73%) Okta
10 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow