Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Milton Keynes is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £608 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £615 - -

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 748 219 326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.02% 94.81% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 146 236
10th Percentile £363 £286 £255
25th Percentile £450 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £429 £474
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -9.62% -1.29%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £638
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.96% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 16
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.54 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.12 £17.46
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.87 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -15.91% +58.94%
75th Percentile £39.63 £19.25 £25.31
90th Percentile - £53.75 £42.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £15.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.13% -32.22% +37.20%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Platform Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Platform Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 19 July 2026, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Azure Platform 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike