Azure Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Buckinghamshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 39 42 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.53% 8.82% 14.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 32.31% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 102
10th Percentile £316 £175 £320
25th Percentile £358 £225 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -11.76% +3.34%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £622
90th Percentile £723 £625 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.74% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.22 -
South East median hourly rate £52.75 £38.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +37.01% -42.96% +26.17%

All Cloud Skills
Buckinghamshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 78 130 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 33.05% 27.31% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 92 192
10th Percentile £311 £204 £233
25th Percentile £394 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £600
90th Percentile £710 £636 £675
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £19.53 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% - -
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.82 -
90th Percentile - £24.13 -
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Buckinghamshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Buckinghamshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Buckinghamshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Buckinghamshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +9 34 £463 +5.83% 80
Bletchley - 1 £350 - 3
Amersham - 1 £500 -
Buckingham - 1 £225 - 1
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (5.13%) Camunda
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) GCP
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.69%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) BGP
1 5 (12.82%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
1 5 (12.82%) MPLS
1 5 (12.82%) NGFW
1 5 (12.82%) OSPF
1 5 (12.82%) SD-WAN
1 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
1 5 (12.82%) VPN
1 5 (12.82%) WAN
2 4 (10.26%) VLAN
2 4 (10.26%) VSAN
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
3 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.26%) Big Data
5 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.69%) MySQL
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
6 2 (5.13%) MS Access
6 2 (5.13%) Power BI
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) QARun
2 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
2 2 (5.13%) WinRunner
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Architect
2 7 (17.95%) Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Technical Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Principal Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Test Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Django
1 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 3 (7.69%) Flask
1 3 (7.69%) RESTful
2 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.13%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) OpenJDK
2 2 (5.13%) PySpark
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Public Cloud
2 7 (17.95%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) PKI
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 15 (38.46%) Microservices
2 14 (35.90%) TOGAF
3 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.77%) DevOps
4 12 (30.77%) Migration
5 11 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (23.08%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.08%) IT Strategy
7 8 (20.51%) Data Migration
7 8 (20.51%) DevSecOps
7 8 (20.51%) ITIL
7 8 (20.51%) Technology Strategy
8 7 (17.95%) Data Security
8 7 (17.95%) Requirements Management
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (15.38%) Validation
9 6 (15.38%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 10 (25.64%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) MCSE
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (12.82%) CCNP
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) CRISC
7 1 (2.56%) SnowPro
7 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) NCSC
2 8 (20.51%) NIST
3 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 5 (12.82%) HIPAA
4 4 (10.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (15.38%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) VMware
3 6 (15.38%) Cisco
3 6 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.13%) Citrix
5 2 (5.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.56%) Commvault
6 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.56%) Imperva
6 1 (2.56%) Netskope
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Remedy