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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 33 40 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.69% 8.87% 12.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.25% 31.50% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 80
10th Percentile £314 £288 £322
25th Percentile £325 £383 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% -11.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £488 £587 £625
90th Percentile £583 £625 £764
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.22 -
South East median hourly rate £53.39 £51.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +3.66% -31.33% +57.89%

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 80 127 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 33.20% 28.16% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 86 184
10th Percentile £286 £225 £268
25th Percentile £325 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £523 £625
90th Percentile £604 £610 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile - - £16.70
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.85 £17.38
Median hourly rate £13.50 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +18.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £14.75 £23.82 £21.63
90th Percentile £15.35 £24.07 £22.90
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +7 30 £360 -26.53% 59
High Wycombe 0 1 £550 +223.53% 19
Newport Pagnell - 1 - - 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 (6.06%) Camunda
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) GCP
4 7 (21.21%) GitHub
5 5 (15.15%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.06%) PaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.06%) SaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DHCP
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) NAS
1 1 (3.03%) SAN
1 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.15%) Big Data
2 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) MS Access
4 2 (6.06%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.03%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (3.03%) OLAP
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.03%) UniData
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) QARun
3 2 (6.06%) Terragrunt
3 2 (6.06%) WinRunner
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Financial Institution
4 4 (12.12%) General Ledger
5 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) Test Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Integration Test Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (9.09%) Django
2 3 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 3 (9.09%) Flask
2 3 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) Keycloak
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) OpenJDK
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (51.52%) Migration
3 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 12 (36.36%) Data Migration
5 11 (33.33%) Microservices
6 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
7 8 (24.24%) Integration Testing
7 8 (24.24%) Logistics
7 8 (24.24%) Software Testing
7 8 (24.24%) System Integration Testing
7 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
7 8 (24.24%) Test Planning
7 8 (24.24%) Waterfall
8 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
8 7 (21.21%) TOGAF
9 6 (18.18%) Defect Management
9 6 (18.18%) SDLC
9 6 (18.18%) Validation
10 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (15.15%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Python
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) C#
2 6 (18.18%) VB
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) GDPR
1 5 (15.15%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.06%) NCSC
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Commvault
4 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) Isilon
4 1 (3.03%) NetApp
4 1 (3.03%) Netskope
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Veeam
4 1 (3.03%) VMware