Azure Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 290 283 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.81% 15.91% 12.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.21% 55.38% 42.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 227 239
10th Percentile £425 £454 £405
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +9.27%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £630
90th Percentile £675 £750 £658
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +7.14%
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 £50.00 £72.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -31.03% +43.56% -12.93%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 545 511 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.83% 28.72% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 365 487
10th Percentile £338 £363 £217
25th Percentile £457 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £614 £650 £600
90th Percentile £676 £723 £654
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £20.49 £17.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%
75th Percentile £61.39 £75.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 0 238 £605 -0.82% 42
Bracknell +9 16 £500 - 2
Wokingham -11 11 £538 -
Maidenhead -3 7 £575 +31.43% 2
Newbury +4 4 £438 +2.94% 6
Windsor -10 2 £606 - 4
Slough -7 1 £401 -25.49% 7
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 24 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Jadu
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 22 (7.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (4.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (4.14%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (2.76%) Teamcenter
5 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.34%) Maximo
7 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.17%) Azure DevOps
2 58 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 58 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 43 (14.83%) AWS
4 36 (12.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 35 (12.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 28 (9.66%) Azure Functions
6 28 (9.66%) Serverless
7 25 (8.62%) Azure Storage
7 25 (8.62%) Power Platform
8 23 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (6.21%) OCI
10 12 (4.14%) Azure API Management
10 12 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (3.79%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.79%) PaaS
12 10 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.45%) GCP
13 9 (3.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.14%) Firewall
2 37 (12.76%) DNS
3 35 (12.07%) DHCP
4 14 (4.83%) SAN
5 9 (3.10%) SSL
6 7 (2.41%) Network Security
6 7 (2.41%) VPN
7 3 (1.03%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.03%) WAN
8 2 (0.69%) BGP
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.69%) DMVPN
8 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.69%) IPsec
8 2 (0.69%) MPLS
8 2 (0.69%) OSPF
8 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.69%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 16 (5.52%) Power BI
3 12 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.38%) GIS
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.38%) Redis
8 4 (1.38%) SQLPlus
8 4 (1.38%) SSDT
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.03%) Tableau
10 2 (0.69%) Big Data
10 2 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.38%) Selenium
2 31 (10.69%) Git
3 24 (8.28%) JIRA
4 17 (5.86%) Cucumber
5 14 (4.83%) Jenkins
6 13 (4.48%) GitLab
7 12 (4.14%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.14%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.79%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (2.41%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.07%) JMeter
10 6 (2.07%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.38%) Postman
12 3 (1.03%) Maven
12 3 (1.03%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (6.55%) Finance
4 15 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.10%) Law
5 9 (3.10%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.76%) Police
7 6 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (19.66%) Developer
2 37 (12.76%) Active Directory Support
3 34 (11.72%) Architect
3 34 (11.72%) Senior
4 26 (8.97%) Analyst
5 25 (8.62%) Active Directory Specialist
5 25 (8.62%) Azure Specialist
5 25 (8.62%) Support Specialist
6 24 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
7 22 (7.59%) Azure Developer
8 20 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.52%) Active Directory Engineer
9 16 (5.52%) Consultant
9 16 (5.52%) Lead
9 16 (5.52%) Python Developer
9 16 (5.52%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.48%) Administrator
10 13 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
10 13 (4.48%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.10%) ARM Templates
2 26 (8.97%) React
3 20 (6.90%) .NET
4 17 (5.86%) REST
5 13 (4.48%) Itk
5 13 (4.48%) Java EE
6 12 (4.14%) XML
7 11 (3.79%) Web Services
7 11 (3.79%) YAML
8 9 (3.10%) Node.js
9 8 (2.76%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.07%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.07%) CSS
10 6 (2.07%) Django
10 6 (2.07%) HTML
10 6 (2.07%) JSON
11 4 (1.38%) Celery
11 4 (1.38%) Entity Framework
11 4 (1.38%) GeoPandas
11 4 (1.38%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.34%) PKI
2 22 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.24%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.76%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.03%) IoT
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.34%) CSOC
11 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.34%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.38%) Windows
2 58 (20.00%) Linux
3 51 (17.59%) Windows Server
4 41 (14.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 41 (14.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (5.17%) Windows 10
6 14 (4.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (4.83%) Windows XP
7 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.03%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (57.59%) DevOps
2 94 (32.41%) Agile
3 66 (22.76%) CI/CD
4 52 (17.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (15.17%) Test Automation
7 37 (12.76%) ITIL
8 32 (11.03%) Analytics
9 31 (10.69%) Release Management
10 28 (9.66%) Microservices
11 27 (9.31%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (8.62%) Identity Management
13 24 (8.28%) Containerisation
13 24 (8.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 24 (8.28%) Service Management
14 23 (7.93%) SDLC
15 22 (7.59%) Log Analytics
15 22 (7.59%) RBAC
16 21 (7.24%) Privileged Identity Management
16 21 (7.24%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.62%) PowerShell
2 53 (18.28%) Python
3 46 (15.86%) C#
4 30 (10.34%) SQL
5 29 (10.00%) Java
5 29 (10.00%) VBScript
6 22 (7.59%) Bicep
7 21 (7.24%) VB
8 16 (5.52%) C
9 10 (3.45%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.76%) C++
11 6 (2.07%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.38%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) Bash
15 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (37.59%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 72 (24.83%) DV Cleared
4 61 (21.03%) Degree
5 21 (7.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (5.86%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (5.52%) CCNA
7 16 (5.52%) CCNP
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CCSP
11 1 (0.34%) CEH
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.14%) QA
2 4 (1.38%) GDPR
2 4 (1.38%) PMO
3 2 (0.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.34%) COBIT
4 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (31.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (9.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (8.62%) Docker
4 24 (8.28%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (7.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (5.86%) Hyper-V
7 14 (4.83%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.69%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 54 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.41%) SCCM
2 36 (12.41%) SCOM
2 36 (12.41%) WSUS
3 31 (10.69%) Terraform
4 22 (7.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (5.17%) Ansible
7 14 (4.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (4.83%) NetBackup
7 14 (4.83%) vCenter Server
8 12 (4.14%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (4.14%) Podman
9 11 (3.79%) Istio
10 7 (2.41%) Rancher
11 5 (1.72%) Grafana
11 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.34%) Graylog
12 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 85 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.45%) Oracle
3 31 (10.69%) VMware
4 18 (6.21%) Cisco
4 18 (6.21%) Palo Alto
5 16 (5.52%) Juniper
6 14 (4.83%) 3PAR
6 14 (4.83%) Dell
6 14 (4.83%) EMC
6 14 (4.83%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (4.83%) HP
6 14 (4.83%) Symantec
6 14 (4.83%) Veeam
7 8 (2.76%) Google
8 7 (2.41%) Databricks
9 5 (1.72%) Ab Initio
9 5 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.38%) Okta
10 4 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow