Azure Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 64 167 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 12.88% 14.26% 21.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.54% 50.76% 60.22%
Number of salaries quoted 45 97 174
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,125 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +2.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £85,000 £88,125
Berkshire median annual salary £49,000 £60,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -18.33% +8.99% -15.31%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 147 329 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 29.58% 28.10% 35.42%
Number of salaries quoted 80 156 254
10th Percentile £28,900 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £39,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £84,625
Berkshire median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -15.38%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Reading

Azure
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Reading over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Reading

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 13 (20.31%) CMS
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 14 (21.88%) AWS
3 12 (18.75%) PaaS
4 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) iPaaS
4 11 (17.19%) SaaS
5 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (7.81%) IaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.69%) GCP
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
1 10 (15.63%) Firewall
2 7 (10.94%) DHCP
3 4 (6.25%) SAN
4 3 (4.69%) VPN
5 2 (3.13%) FTP
5 2 (3.13%) HTTP
5 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.13%) SMTP
5 2 (3.13%) SSH
5 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.13%) WAN
6 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Power BI
1 16 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.13%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) DTS
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Power Query
5 1 (1.56%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) MSBuild
3 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.13%) Vagrant
3 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (42.19%) Finance
2 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (17.19%) Legal
5 11 (17.19%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (15.63%) Marketing
7 9 (14.06%) Games
8 4 (6.25%) Humanities
8 4 (6.25%) Law
9 2 (3.13%) Banking
9 2 (3.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Architect
2 14 (21.88%) Lead
3 9 (14.06%) Developer
4 7 (10.94%) Applications Architect
4 7 (10.94%) IT Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Integration Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Coordinator
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) .NET
2 4 (6.25%) SAML
3 3 (4.69%) CSS
3 3 (4.69%) HTML
3 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.13%) Bootstrap
4 2 (3.13%) gRPC
4 2 (3.13%) JSON
4 2 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) XML
5 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (12.50%) PKI
3 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Replication
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) NHS
5 2 (3.13%) Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) AS400
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Windows
2 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.38%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) Data Governance
2 18 (28.13%) Agile
2 18 (28.13%) Migration
3 16 (25.00%) Data Management
3 16 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 15 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.88%) DevOps
5 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (17.19%) Coaching
6 11 (17.19%) Regulatory Compliance
6 11 (17.19%) Risk Management
7 10 (15.63%) Creative Thinking
7 10 (15.63%) ERP
7 10 (15.63%) Marketing Automation
7 10 (15.63%) Practice Management
8 9 (14.06%) Data Governance Strategy
8 9 (14.06%) Data Lineage
8 9 (14.06%) Data Privacy
8 9 (14.06%) Data Security
8 9 (14.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) C#
3 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) Python
5 4 (6.25%) Java
6 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 2 (3.13%) Bicep
7 2 (3.13%) Groovy
7 2 (3.13%) Perl
7 2 (3.13%) SOQL
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) CCNA
4 5 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.25%) CCNP
5 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.56%) GIAC
8 1 (1.56%) HND
8 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.56%) MCP
8 1 (1.56%) MCSA
8 1 (1.56%) MCSE
8 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (10.94%) SLA
4 3 (4.69%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) GRC
5 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.19%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.50%) Docker
3 8 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.13%) DFS Replication
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) VMware
3 7 (10.94%) Databricks
4 4 (6.25%) Veeam
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) Meraki
6 1 (1.56%) Talend