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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 80 162 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.24% 11.98% 21.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.45% 47.23% 59.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 100 197
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £45,000 £46,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £59,063 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% -5.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,813 £70,625 £74,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £112,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%

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 176 343 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 33.52% 25.37% 36.77%
Number of salaries quoted 104 172 297
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £59,563 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% -4.70% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £79,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £53,750 £57,525 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.56% +0.04% -11.54%

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Reading

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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 13 (16.25%) CMS
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 15 (18.75%) AWS
4 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 12 (15.00%) SaaS
6 11 (13.75%) iPaaS
6 11 (13.75%) PaaS
7 10 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (11.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (8.75%) SonarCloud
11 6 (7.50%) IaaS
12 5 (6.25%) GCP
13 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
14 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (2.50%) Amazon Glacier
15 2 (2.50%) AWS KMS
15 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
15 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) DNS
2 7 (8.75%) Firewall
3 5 (6.25%) DHCP
3 5 (6.25%) SAN
4 2 (2.50%) FTP
4 2 (2.50%) HTTP
4 2 (2.50%) SMTP
4 2 (2.50%) SSH
4 2 (2.50%) VPN
5 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (21.25%) Power BI
3 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.50%) Data Hub
5 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) Big Data
6 1 (1.25%) DTS
6 1 (1.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 7 (8.75%) MSBuild
2 7 (8.75%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (8.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (8.75%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.50%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 32 (40.00%) Finance
2 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (13.75%) Legal
5 11 (13.75%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (12.50%) Marketing
7 9 (11.25%) Games
8 8 (10.00%) Law
9 7 (8.75%) Retail
10 4 (5.00%) Humanities
11 2 (2.50%) Banking
12 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Architect
2 15 (18.75%) Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Lead
4 9 (11.25%) Technical Architect
5 8 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Applications Architect
6 7 (8.75%) IT Architect
7 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (5.00%) Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior
10 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Integration Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Service Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Support Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Data Manager
11 2 (2.50%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) .NET
2 8 (10.00%) CSS
2 8 (10.00%) HTML
3 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET
3 7 (8.75%) Bootstrap
3 7 (8.75%) gRPC
3 7 (8.75%) JSON
3 7 (8.75%) REST
3 7 (8.75%) XML
4 5 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.25%) SAML
5 4 (5.00%) React
6 3 (3.75%) Web Services
7 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (2.50%) Node.js
7 2 (2.50%) Vue
8 1 (1.25%) Kafka
8 1 (1.25%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (11.25%) PKI
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Replication
4 2 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) AS400
5 1 (1.25%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Windows
2 11 (13.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) DevOps
2 25 (31.25%) Data Governance
3 22 (27.50%) Migration
4 21 (26.25%) Data Management
5 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (23.75%) Agile
7 17 (21.25%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.75%) Data Lineage
9 11 (13.75%) Data Security
9 11 (13.75%) Regulatory Compliance
9 11 (13.75%) Risk Management
10 10 (12.50%) Coaching
10 10 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
10 10 (12.50%) ERP
10 10 (12.50%) Marketing Automation
10 10 (12.50%) Practice Management
10 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (11.25%) Data Privacy
11 9 (11.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.00%) C#
2 17 (21.25%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.25%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) X++
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.75%) Java
6 3 (3.75%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.50%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.50%) Groovy
7 2 (2.50%) Perl
7 2 (2.50%) SOQL
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.25%) CCNA
6 5 (6.25%) CCNP
6 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.25%) GIAC
9 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 12 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 11 (13.75%) GDPR
4 8 (10.00%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 10 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 9 (11.25%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.50%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Argo
4 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) VMware
3 7 (8.75%) Databricks
4 5 (6.25%) Veeam
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Meraki
6 1 (1.25%) Talend