Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Milton Keynes is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.31% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 617 191 417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 94.55% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 142 316
10th Percentile £351 £260 £238
25th Percentile £417 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £592
90th Percentile £640 £650 £694
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 30
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.30 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -17.02% +97.73%
75th Percentile £37.82 £53.75 £29.25
90th Percentile £39.63 £63.50 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.34 £17.25 £23.88
% change year-on-year +0.49% -27.75% +81.42%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, Azure Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
Azure Infrastructure Engineer jobs