Azure Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 4 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 34 34 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 19.65% 8.72% 13.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 59.65% 29.06% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 78
10th Percentile £325 £225 £272
25th Percentile £368 £244 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £599 £542 £611
90th Percentile £743 £625 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £482 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +7.00% -11.76% +3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.22 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £23.22 -

All Cloud 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 57 117 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.95% 30.00% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 82 142
10th Percentile £311 £213 £275
25th Percentile £371 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £611
90th Percentile £727 £643 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £516 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.72% -10.00% +5.26%
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 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.50 £19.53 -
% change year-on-year -20.65% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Milton Keynes

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (5.88%) Camunda
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) GCP
3 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.82%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.88%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.94%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) BGP
1 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
1 4 (11.76%) MPLS
1 4 (11.76%) NGFW
1 4 (11.76%) OSPF
1 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
1 4 (11.76%) VPN
1 4 (11.76%) WAN
2 3 (8.82%) VLAN
2 3 (8.82%) VSAN
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.71%) Data Lake
2 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.76%) Big Data
4 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.82%) MySQL
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.88%) MS Access
6 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.94%) Power BI
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) QARun
2 2 (5.88%) Terragrunt
2 2 (5.88%) WinRunner
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Principal Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Python Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Django
1 3 (8.82%) FastAPI
1 3 (8.82%) Flask
1 3 (8.82%) RESTful
2 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.88%) Middleware
2 2 (5.88%) OpenJDK
2 2 (5.88%) PySpark
2 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Public Cloud
2 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 14 (41.18%) Microservices
2 13 (38.24%) TOGAF
3 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (29.41%) Migration
5 9 (26.47%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (23.53%) IT Strategy
7 7 (20.59%) Data Migration
7 7 (20.59%) DevSecOps
7 7 (20.59%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (17.65%) Data Security
8 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (17.65%) ITIL
8 6 (17.65%) Requirements Management
9 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 5 (14.71%) RBAC
9 5 (14.71%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
1 10 (29.41%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) MCSE
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (14.71%) CCNP
4 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.94%) CRISC
7 1 (2.94%) SnowPro
7 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) NCSC
2 7 (20.59%) NIST
3 5 (14.71%) GDPR
3 5 (14.71%) HIPAA
4 3 (8.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (14.71%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (26.47%) VMware
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco
3 5 (14.71%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.88%) Citrix
5 2 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (2.94%) Commvault
6 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.94%) Imperva
6 1 (2.94%) Netskope
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle