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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 65 61 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 14.01% 27.98% 7.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.10% 62.24% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 25
10th Percentile £404 £248 £225
25th Percentile £462 £350 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £585
90th Percentile £640 £673 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £456
% change year-on-year +23.53% -6.85% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -48.31% -
75th Percentile - - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +200.00% -48.31% -

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 141 98 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.39% 44.95% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 78 94
10th Percentile £375 £249 £189
25th Percentile £413 £353 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £550
90th Percentile £639 £662 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £480 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -4.62% +11.72% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%

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 26 February 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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) GCP
3 10 (15.38%) GitHub
3 10 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.85%) Entra ID
5 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.69%) dbt
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.08%) Google App Engine
8 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.54%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.54%) Figma
9 1 (1.54%) IaaS
9 1 (1.54%) PaaS
9 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) MPLS
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.08%) VPN
2 2 (3.08%) VSAN
2 2 (3.08%) WAN
2 2 (3.08%) Wireless
3 1 (1.54%) BGP
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.54%) IPsec
3 1 (1.54%) LAN
3 1 (1.54%) Multicast
3 1 (1.54%) OSPF
3 1 (1.54%) SNMP
3 1 (1.54%) VoIP
3 1 (1.54%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.23%) Power BI
4 5 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.15%) JUnit
1 4 (6.15%) Storybook
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
3 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Postman
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (16.92%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Electronics
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Senior
2 16 (24.62%) Architect
3 15 (23.08%) Developer
4 13 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Architect
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Lead
10 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) React
3 7 (10.77%) CSS
3 7 (10.77%) PySpark
4 5 (7.69%) HTML
4 5 (7.69%) RESTful
5 4 (6.15%) Spring
5 4 (6.15%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.15%) Vitest
6 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.62%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.62%) REST
6 3 (4.62%) SOAP
7 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.08%) Loki
7 2 (3.08%) Material-UI
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth
8 1 (1.54%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Public Cloud
2 7 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (9.23%) PKI
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) DevOps
2 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
3 16 (24.62%) Agile
4 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (18.46%) Migration
5 11 (16.92%) Microservices
6 9 (13.85%) AI
6 9 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.85%) Data Modelling
6 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.31%) DevSecOps
7 8 (12.31%) ETL
7 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (12.31%) Incident Response
7 8 (12.31%) ITIL
8 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.23%) Analytics
10 5 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) SQL
2 19 (29.23%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.23%) C#
5 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.69%) Bash
7 4 (6.15%) Go
7 4 (6.15%) Java
8 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.08%) Bicep
10 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.15%) CCNP
4 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) MCSE
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.54%) CCDA
6 1 (1.54%) CCDP
6 1 (1.54%) CCIE
6 1 (1.54%) CCIP
6 1 (1.54%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) NIST
2 6 (9.23%) NCSC
3 5 (7.69%) GDPR
4 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.62%) GRC
6 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.77%) Docker
3 6 (9.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Ansible
3 4 (6.15%) Rancher
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 3 (4.62%) PaperCut
4 3 (4.62%) Podman
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.62%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.62%) SCCM
5 2 (3.08%) Istio
6 1 (1.54%) CASB
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.92%) Databricks
3 8 (12.31%) VMware
4 6 (9.23%) Citrix
5 4 (6.15%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.62%) Autodesk
6 3 (4.62%) Cisco
6 3 (4.62%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.62%) SAP
7 2 (3.08%) Cognos
7 2 (3.08%) HP
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.54%) Aruba
8 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.54%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.54%) Juniper
8 1 (1.54%) Meraki
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle
8 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds