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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 152 35 42
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 19.77% 15.42% 12.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 79.58% 46.05% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 25 30
10th Percentile £413 £314 £368
25th Percentile £462 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £375 £498
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -24.62% -5.24%
75th Percentile £610 £463 £550
90th Percentile £639 £573 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £375 £490
% change year-on-year +43.33% -23.47% -9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - -

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 191 76 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.84% 33.48% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 45 85
10th Percentile £397 £303 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £525
90th Percentile £640 £620 £603
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £15.85
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -2.21% -9.43%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £21.50
90th Percentile - - £22.85
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £15.85
% change year-on-year +29.63% -14.83% -16.58%

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 18 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 (1.32%) IIS
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.08%) AWS
2 33 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 13 (8.55%) GCP
5 12 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (7.24%) Power Platform
7 10 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (5.92%) GitHub
8 9 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.29%) dbt
10 5 (3.29%) Google App Engine
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.63%) IaaS
11 4 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.97%) PaaS
12 3 (1.97%) SaaS
13 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.32%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.16%) Firewall
2 15 (9.87%) DNS
3 14 (9.21%) VPN
4 13 (8.55%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (7.89%) TCP/IP
6 11 (7.24%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (6.58%) WAN
8 9 (5.92%) LAN
8 9 (5.92%) Network Security
8 9 (5.92%) VSAN
9 8 (5.26%) BGP
9 8 (5.26%) IPsec
9 8 (5.26%) OSPF
10 7 (4.61%) BIG-IP
10 7 (4.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (4.61%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.95%) MPLS
11 6 (3.95%) NGFW
12 5 (3.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) Power BI
1 11 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.63%) MySQL
4 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.66%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (7.24%) Git
2 6 (3.95%) GitLab
3 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.63%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.97%) JIRA
5 3 (1.97%) Selenium
5 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.97%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.97%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.32%) MSTest
6 2 (1.32%) NUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.66%) JUnit
7 1 (0.66%) MSI
7 1 (0.66%) Storybook
General
1 14 (9.21%) Finance
2 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
2 13 (8.55%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.29%) Retail
5 4 (2.63%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.32%) Military
7 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (21.71%) Senior
3 29 (19.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (17.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (14.47%) Architect
6 22 (14.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.53%) Developer
8 13 (8.55%) Technical Architect
9 11 (7.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Network Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Citrix Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) DBA
13 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.95%) Lead
13 6 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.87%) .NET
2 14 (9.21%) React
3 10 (6.58%) REST
4 7 (4.61%) .NET Framework
4 7 (4.61%) Entity Framework
5 6 (3.95%) CSS
6 5 (3.29%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.29%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.29%) PySpark
6 5 (3.29%) RESTful
6 5 (3.29%) SOAP
7 4 (2.63%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.63%) Loki
7 4 (2.63%) OAuth
8 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.97%) Spring
9 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.32%) LINQ
9 2 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 15 (9.87%) PKI
4 12 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 12 (7.89%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
6 8 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.95%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.63%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.97%) ARM Cortex
10 3 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.66%) Clustering
12 1 (0.66%) CMDB
12 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.05%) Linux
2 22 (14.47%) Windows
3 7 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.95%) Debian
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.79%) DevOps
2 57 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 36 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (22.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (21.71%) Agile
6 27 (17.76%) ITIL
7 23 (15.13%) Migration
8 20 (13.16%) Zero Trust
9 18 (11.84%) Cloud Security
9 18 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (11.18%) DevSecOps
11 16 (10.53%) Microservices
11 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (9.87%) Analytics
12 15 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (9.87%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.55%) Identity Access Management
14 12 (7.89%) High Availability
14 12 (7.89%) Incident Response
14 12 (7.89%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.05%) SQL
2 23 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 21 (13.82%) Python
4 16 (10.53%) Bicep
5 14 (9.21%) Bash
6 13 (8.55%) C#
7 12 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.24%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.61%) Go
10 6 (3.95%) Java
10 6 (3.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (65.13%) Security Cleared
2 84 (55.26%) SC Cleared
3 43 (28.29%) DV Cleared
4 15 (9.87%) CCNP
4 15 (9.87%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.58%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.92%) Degree
7 9 (5.92%) MCSE
8 6 (3.95%) ISTQB
8 6 (3.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (3.29%) CCSE
9 5 (3.29%) CCSM
10 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.63%) MCSA
10 4 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.97%) CCIE
12 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.16%) NCSC
2 9 (5.92%) NIST
3 5 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.29%) GDPR
3 5 (3.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.29%) QA
3 5 (3.29%) SLA
4 4 (2.63%) GRC
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.66%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 24 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (13.16%) VMware NSX
3 19 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.92%) Docker
5 7 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (21.71%) Terraform
2 13 (8.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.26%) Ansible
5 6 (3.95%) Rancher
6 5 (3.29%) Grafana
6 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.63%) Istio
8 3 (1.97%) SCCM
8 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.32%) SCOM
10 1 (0.66%) CASB
10 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.66%) Packer
10 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 44 (28.95%) VMware
3 23 (15.13%) Cisco
4 18 (11.84%) Palo Alto
5 12 (7.89%) Citrix
6 9 (5.92%) Databricks
7 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.61%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.61%) F5
9 6 (3.95%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.29%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.32%) Cognos
12 2 (1.32%) Google
12 2 (1.32%) HP
12 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.66%) Dell
13 1 (0.66%) Juniper
13 1 (0.66%) Oracle
13 1 (0.66%) Red Hat