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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Azure 167 88 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 11.13% 16.45% 11.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.15% 47.57% 49.56%
Number of salaries quoted 83 69 115
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £57,525
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +9.52% -11.50%
75th Percentile £88,750 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £83,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £63,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% +15.00% -15.38%

All Cloud Computing 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 387 185 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.78% 34.58% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 273 112 206
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,500 £57,013
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +11.38% -12.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £86,000
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -12.00%

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 17 August 2026.

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 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.75%) AWS
2 26 (15.57%) Azure AI
3 19 (11.38%) GitHub
4 17 (10.18%) GCP
4 17 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.98%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.98%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.39%) PaaS
7 8 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (2.99%) Figma
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.40%) Apigee
9 4 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.40%) Datadog
9 4 (2.40%) Kong
9 4 (2.40%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.40%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.19%) Firewall
2 11 (6.59%) DNS
3 6 (3.59%) Internet
3 6 (3.59%) VPN
4 5 (2.99%) DHCP
4 5 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.40%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.40%) Wireless
6 3 (1.80%) LAN
6 3 (1.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) Power BI
2 12 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.19%) Tableau
3 6 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.20%) Metadata
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (10.18%) Git
2 6 (3.59%) GitLab
3 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 76 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.57%) Finance
3 8 (4.79%) Retail
3 8 (4.79%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.40%) Law
5 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (16.77%) Analyst
2 24 (14.37%) Junior
2 24 (14.37%) Junior Analyst
3 22 (13.17%) Developer
4 18 (10.78%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (8.98%) Lead
5 15 (8.98%) Security Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Architect
6 12 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Data Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Ethical Hacker
6 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.19%) Junior Data Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Junior Security Analyst
7 10 (5.99%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) React
1 18 (10.78%) REST
2 17 (10.18%) .NET
3 11 (6.59%) ASP.NET
4 9 (5.39%) .NET Core
4 9 (5.39%) Web Services
5 7 (4.19%) Node.js
6 6 (3.59%) CSS
6 6 (3.59%) HTML
7 5 (2.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (2.99%) Django
7 5 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (2.99%) ML.NET
7 5 (2.99%) Twisted
7 5 (2.99%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.40%) Blazor
8 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.40%) Vue
8 4 (2.40%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.19%) Cyberattack
1 12 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.19%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.19%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.60%) Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.77%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) Windows
3 4 (2.40%) Unix
3 4 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) Debian
4 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.55%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (19.16%) AI
2 32 (19.16%) DevOps
3 26 (15.57%) Mentoring
4 22 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (12.57%) CI/CD
6 20 (11.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.78%) Agile
8 18 (10.78%) Code Quality
8 18 (10.78%) Software Engineering
9 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (10.18%) Microservices
10 13 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (7.78%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.78%) Test Automation
11 12 (7.19%) Ethical Hacking
11 12 (7.19%) ETL
12 10 (5.99%) Clean Code
12 10 (5.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.94%) Python
2 28 (16.77%) SQL
3 23 (13.77%) C#
4 15 (8.98%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.99%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.79%) C
6 8 (4.79%) Rust
7 7 (4.19%) C++
8 5 (2.99%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.40%) Java
9 4 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.60%) R
10 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (32.93%) Azure Certification
2 19 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (7.19%) CEH
4 12 (7.19%) CompTIA CySA+
4 12 (7.19%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (7.19%) Degree
5 11 (6.59%) CCNA
6 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.19%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.59%) CISSP
8 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.59%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.80%) CCSP
9 3 (1.80%) CISM
9 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.98%) Docker
4 12 (7.19%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.79%) KVM
6 7 (4.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.60%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 12 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.39%) Terraform
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.40%) Ansible
4 4 (2.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 92 (55.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.96%) ForeScout
3 16 (9.58%) VMware
4 10 (5.99%) Cisco
5 9 (5.39%) Databricks
5 9 (5.39%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.40%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.40%) F5
6 4 (2.40%) IBM
6 4 (2.40%) Juniper
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle
6 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.80%) Darktrace
7 3 (1.80%) OpenAI