Azure Jobs in Reading

Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 80 271 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.49% 16.27% 23.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.94% 48.83% 57.54%
Number of salaries quoted 70 185 214
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -11.61% +6.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,750 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +4.00%

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 178 555 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 36.70% 33.31% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 112 374 382
10th Percentile £35,125 £28,950 £42,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £41,563 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £59,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -15.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%

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

Azure
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Azure in Reading

Azure
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Reading over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Reading

Azure
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 16 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.25%) Sitefinity
4 1 (1.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (22.50%) AWS
3 18 (22.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
5 13 (16.25%) SaaS
6 9 (11.25%) PaaS
7 8 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (10.00%) GitHub
7 8 (10.00%) IaaS
8 7 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (7.50%) Azure Functions
9 6 (7.50%) Serverless
9 6 (7.50%) SonarCloud
10 5 (6.25%) Azure AI
10 5 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (5.00%) GCP
11 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DHCP
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
1 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) Broadband
3 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.25%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) NGFW
3 1 (1.25%) SSL
3 1 (1.25%) VLAN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
3 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.50%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Power BI
7 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.50%) MSBuild
3 6 (7.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (7.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (3.75%) Selenium
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.25%) Bugzilla
7 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.25%) gulp
7 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.25%) Yeoman
7 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Retail
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Automotive
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 10 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Lead
6 8 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 6 (7.50%) Administrator
7 6 (7.50%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) IT Support
7 6 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.25%) IT Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) IT Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Senior IT Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) .NET
2 15 (18.75%) CSS
2 15 (18.75%) HTML
3 13 (16.25%) React
4 11 (13.75%) ASP.NET
5 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.25%) REST
7 7 (8.75%) Bootstrap
8 6 (7.50%) .NET Framework
8 6 (7.50%) gRPC
8 6 (7.50%) JSON
8 6 (7.50%) XML
9 5 (6.25%) Node.js
10 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 4 (5.00%) HTML5
10 4 (5.00%) jQuery
11 3 (3.75%) CSS3
11 3 (3.75%) Entity Framework
11 3 (3.75%) Vue
12 2 (2.50%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Clustering
3 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Replication
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) IoT
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.50%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Apple iOS
3 8 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (7.50%) Linux
6 5 (6.25%) VMS
6 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.75%) Android
8 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) DevOps
2 22 (27.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (26.25%) Agile
4 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (16.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (16.25%) Microservices
7 11 (13.75%) Machine Learning
7 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.50%) MVC
9 9 (11.25%) Design Patterns
10 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.75%) API Integration
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.75%) Scrum
11 7 (8.75%) SDLC
11 7 (8.75%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) JavaScript
2 21 (26.25%) C#
3 19 (23.75%) SQL
4 15 (18.75%) Python
5 14 (17.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.00%) Bash
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.75%) Bicep
7 3 (3.75%) Java
8 2 (2.50%) PHP
8 2 (2.50%) VBScript
8 2 (2.50%) X++
9 1 (1.25%) R
9 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) VCAP
5 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) GDPR
2 5 (6.25%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (17.50%) Docker
3 9 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.25%) NFS
6 1 (1.25%) vCloud
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.50%) Terraform
4 5 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.25%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) VMware
3 4 (5.00%) Cisco
3 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) Apple
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) HP
5 1 (1.25%) IBM