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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure 160 87 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 10.30% 15.76% 11.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.30% 47.54% 47.38%
Number of salaries quoted 86 67 107
10th Percentile £44,375 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +10.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £82,750
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £62,750 £55,763
% change year-on-year -16.33% +12.53% -10.78%

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 397 183 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.56% 33.15% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 294 110 192
10th Percentile £41,250 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,563 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,250 £58,263
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +10.28% -10.37%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £86,000
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -8.33%

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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Reading

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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 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.88%) AWS
2 24 (15.00%) Azure AI
3 19 (11.88%) GitHub
4 16 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (9.38%) GCP
6 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.88%) PaaS
8 10 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.63%) Azure Databricks
9 9 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.50%) Datadog
10 4 (2.50%) Figma
10 4 (2.50%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.50%) Serverless
11 3 (1.88%) Apigee
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.13%) DNS
1 13 (8.13%) Firewall
2 8 (5.00%) VPN
3 7 (4.38%) DHCP
3 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.38%) VLAN
4 6 (3.75%) Internet
4 6 (3.75%) Wireless
5 5 (3.13%) LAN
5 5 (3.13%) WAN
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.25%) Network Security
7 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) Power BI
2 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.25%) Tableau
3 6 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Git
2 5 (3.13%) GitLab
2 5 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
General
1 66 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.13%) Finance
3 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.38%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.75%) Retail
6 4 (2.50%) Law
6 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 24 (15.00%) Analyst
2 20 (12.50%) Developer
2 20 (12.50%) Junior
2 20 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
2 20 (12.50%) Lead
3 17 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 14 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (8.13%) Security Analyst
7 12 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Architect
9 10 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Ethical Hacker
9 10 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Junior Security Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Network Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Senior
11 8 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) React
2 16 (10.00%) REST
3 15 (9.38%) .NET
4 9 (5.63%) ASP.NET
4 9 (5.63%) Node.js
4 9 (5.63%) Terraform
5 8 (5.00%) Web Services
6 7 (4.38%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.75%) CSS
7 6 (3.75%) HTML
8 5 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (3.13%) ML.NET
9 4 (2.50%) Django
9 4 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.50%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (2.50%) JMS
9 4 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.50%) Spring
9 4 (2.50%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Cyberattack
1 10 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Clustering
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.88%) Linux
2 12 (7.50%) Windows
3 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) Debian
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.38%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (19.38%) AI
2 31 (19.38%) DevOps
3 23 (14.38%) Mentoring
4 21 (13.13%) CI/CD
5 20 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (11.25%) Microservices
8 17 (10.63%) Agile
8 17 (10.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (10.00%) Code Quality
9 16 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 13 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (7.50%) ETL
12 11 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (6.88%) Containerisation
13 10 (6.25%) Clean Code
13 10 (6.25%) Ethical Hacking
13 10 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.50%) Python
2 26 (16.25%) SQL
3 20 (12.50%) C#
4 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.75%) C
7 6 (3.75%) Rust
8 5 (3.13%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.13%) C++
9 4 (2.50%) Java
9 4 (2.50%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (31.88%) Azure Certification
2 19 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (6.88%) CCNA
4 11 (6.88%) Degree
5 10 (6.25%) CEH
5 10 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.75%) CISSP
8 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.88%) CCSP
9 3 (1.88%) CISM
9 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (4.38%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.75%) Docker
4 11 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.38%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.75%) KVM
7 1 (0.63%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 12 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.50%) Ansible
3 4 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 88 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.25%) ForeScout
3 16 (10.00%) VMware
4 9 (5.63%) Cisco
4 9 (5.63%) Databricks
4 9 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.50%) IBM
5 4 (2.50%) Oracle
6 3 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.88%) Darktrace
6 3 (1.88%) F5
6 3 (1.88%) Juniper
6 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.88%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.88%) Red Hat