Azure Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 145 33 43
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 19.21% 15.57% 12.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 77.54% 48.53% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 25 30
10th Percentile £413 £314 £368
25th Percentile £462 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £375 £498
Median % change year-on-year +41.53% -24.62% -9.55%
75th Percentile £608 £438 £550
90th Percentile £640 £545 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £531 £375 £490
% change year-on-year +41.53% -23.47% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £24.43
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - £24.43

All Cloud Computing Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 187 68 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.77% 32.08% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 41 86
10th Percentile £400 £286 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -13.16% -11.83%
75th Percentile £599 £538 £544
90th Percentile £639 £613 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +20.69% -8.42% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -13.53% +2.43%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.19
90th Percentile - - £24.09
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £17.93
% change year-on-year +29.63% -24.69% -5.66%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Azure job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Milton Keynes

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.38%) IIS
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.83%) AWS
2 33 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.97%) Entra ID
3 13 (8.97%) GCP
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.59%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.21%) GitHub
6 9 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.83%) dbt
8 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.45%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.76%) IaaS
10 4 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.07%) PaaS
11 3 (2.07%) SaaS
12 2 (1.38%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.34%) Firewall
2 13 (8.97%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (8.28%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (7.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (6.90%) DNS
5 10 (6.90%) WAN
6 9 (6.21%) LAN
6 9 (6.21%) VPN
6 9 (6.21%) VSAN
7 8 (5.52%) BGP
7 8 (5.52%) IPsec
7 8 (5.52%) OSPF
8 7 (4.83%) BIG-IP
8 7 (4.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (4.83%) Network Security
8 7 (4.83%) SD-WAN
8 7 (4.83%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.14%) MPLS
9 6 (4.14%) NGFW
10 5 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.59%) Power BI
1 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.76%) MySQL
4 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.38%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Git
2 6 (4.14%) GitLab
3 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.76%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.07%) Selenium
5 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.07%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.07%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.38%) MSTest
6 2 (1.38%) NUnit
6 2 (1.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) JUnit
7 1 (0.69%) MSI
7 1 (0.69%) Storybook
General
1 13 (8.97%) Finance
1 13 (8.97%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.14%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.45%) Retail
5 4 (2.76%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 35 (24.14%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (21.38%) Senior
3 25 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (15.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) Architect
7 16 (11.03%) Developer
8 13 (8.97%) Technical Architect
9 11 (7.59%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Citrix Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) DBA
12 6 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) .NET
1 13 (8.97%) React
2 9 (6.21%) REST
3 7 (4.83%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.83%) Entity Framework
4 6 (4.14%) CSS
4 6 (4.14%) PySpark
5 5 (3.45%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.45%) RESTful
5 5 (3.45%) SOAP
6 4 (2.76%) Loki
6 4 (2.76%) OAuth
7 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.07%) Spring
8 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.38%) JSON
8 2 (1.38%) LINQ
8 2 (1.38%) Node.js
8 2 (1.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 18 (12.41%) Public Cloud
2 15 (10.34%) PKI
3 12 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.28%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.52%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.69%) CMDB
10 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.62%) Linux
2 17 (11.72%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Debian
4 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.00%) DevOps
2 53 (36.55%) CI/CD
3 32 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (21.38%) Agile
5 28 (19.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (16.55%) ITIL
6 24 (16.55%) Migration
7 19 (13.10%) Zero Trust
8 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (11.72%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.03%) DevSecOps
11 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.34%) Microservices
11 15 (10.34%) Test Automation
12 14 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (8.97%) Identity Access Management
14 12 (8.28%) Analytics
14 12 (8.28%) High Availability
14 12 (8.28%) Incident Response
14 12 (8.28%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.76%) SQL
2 23 (15.86%) Python
3 18 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.28%) C#
4 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.90%) Bicep
5 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.21%) Bash
7 7 (4.83%) Go
8 6 (4.14%) Java
8 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (64.14%) Security Cleared
2 83 (57.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (26.21%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.34%) CCNP
4 15 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 9 (6.21%) MCSE
8 7 (4.83%) Degree
9 6 (4.14%) ISTQB
9 6 (4.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (3.45%) CCSE
10 5 (3.45%) CCSM
11 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.76%) MCSA
11 4 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (2.07%) CCIE
13 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) NCSC
2 9 (6.21%) NIST
3 6 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.45%) GDPR
4 5 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (3.45%) SLA
5 4 (2.76%) GRC
6 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.69%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 24 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (13.79%) VMware NSX
3 14 (9.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.52%) Docker
5 7 (4.83%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.62%) Terraform
2 12 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.14%) Rancher
5 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) Grafana
5 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.76%) Istio
7 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.69%) CASB
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (35.17%) Microsoft
2 44 (30.34%) VMware
3 23 (15.86%) Cisco
4 18 (12.41%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.28%) Citrix
6 10 (6.90%) Databricks
7 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.83%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.83%) F5
9 6 (4.14%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.38%) Cognos
11 2 (1.38%) Google
11 2 (1.38%) HP
11 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.69%) Arista
12 1 (0.69%) Dell
12 1 (0.69%) Meraki
12 1 (0.69%) Oracle
12 1 (0.69%) Zscaler