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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 79 270 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.74% 15.75% 24.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.89% 49.72% 56.93%
Number of salaries quoted 71 182 209
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -12.59% +8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £64,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.86% -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 180 543 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 35.86% 31.68% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 118 364 384
10th Percentile £34,700 £28,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,175 £100,875
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +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 26 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 12 (15.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.80%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) CMS
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.27%) Sitefinity
4 1 (1.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (24.05%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (20.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (18.99%) AWS
5 10 (12.66%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (11.39%) SonarCloud
7 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (10.13%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (10.13%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (10.13%) SaaS
8 7 (8.86%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.86%) GitHub
9 5 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (6.33%) IaaS
9 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.06%) Azure AI
10 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.06%) PaaS
10 4 (5.06%) Serverless
11 3 (3.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DHCP
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) Broadband
3 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.27%) LAN
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
3 1 (1.27%) VLAN
3 1 (1.27%) WAN
3 1 (1.27%) Wireless
3 1 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.39%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.53%) MySQL
5 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (26.58%) Git
2 11 (13.92%) Visual Studio
3 9 (11.39%) MSBuild
3 9 (11.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (11.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (3.80%) JIRA
5 2 (2.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.27%) Bugzilla
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) gulp
6 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.27%) Yeoman
6 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Retail
3 8 (10.13%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Automotive
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) Architect
3 11 (13.92%) Technical Architect
4 9 (11.39%) Azure Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Lead
4 9 (11.39%) Senior
5 8 (10.13%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (7.59%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) IT Support
7 6 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Team Leader
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Administrator
9 4 (5.06%) React Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.38%) .NET
2 16 (20.25%) CSS
2 16 (20.25%) HTML
3 12 (15.19%) ASP.NET
3 12 (15.19%) REST
4 11 (13.92%) React
5 10 (12.66%) Bootstrap
6 9 (11.39%) gRPC
6 9 (11.39%) JSON
6 9 (11.39%) XML
7 7 (8.86%) .NET Framework
8 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.06%) Node.js
10 3 (3.80%) HTML5
11 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (2.53%) CSS3
11 2 (2.53%) GraphQL
11 2 (2.53%) jQuery
12 1 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.80%) Clustering
2 3 (3.80%) IoT
2 3 (3.80%) Replication
3 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.27%) NHS
4 1 (1.27%) PKI
4 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.06%) Linux
5 4 (5.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.53%) Android
6 2 (2.53%) VMS
7 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (49.37%) DevOps
2 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
4 17 (21.52%) Agile
5 14 (17.72%) Microservices
6 12 (15.19%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (13.92%) MVC
8 10 (12.66%) API Integration
8 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (12.66%) Machine Learning
8 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (11.39%) Code Quality
9 9 (11.39%) Data Encryption
9 9 (11.39%) Design Patterns
9 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven
9 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.39%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (11.39%) Performance Testing
10 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) C#
2 20 (25.32%) JavaScript
3 18 (22.78%) SQL
4 12 (15.19%) Python
5 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.33%) X++
7 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
9 1 (1.27%) Java
9 1 (1.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.27%) CCNA
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) GDPR
2 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Docker
2 11 (13.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.59%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.27%) NFS
7 1 (1.27%) vCloud
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.80%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.53%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Argo
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (43.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) VMware
3 3 (3.80%) Apple
3 3 (3.80%) Cisco
3 3 (3.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 1 (1.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) HP
5 1 (1.27%) Veeam