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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 2 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure 42 85 38
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 14.48% 27.69% 6.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.89% 59.03% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 66 33
10th Percentile £325 £284 £233
25th Percentile £413 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £428 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% -18.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £650
90th Percentile £595 £625 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £517 £425 £519
% change year-on-year +21.65% -18.07% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £12.00 -

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 108 144 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.24% 46.91% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 108
10th Percentile £260 £308 £199
25th Percentile £404 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £560 £650
90th Percentile £619 £654 £730
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile - £22.63 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -2.44% -

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 15 November 2025.

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 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) dbt
4 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.90%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (9.52%) ChatGPT
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.76%) Fivetran
8 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.76%) PaaS
9 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) MPLS
3 1 (2.38%) NAS
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Big Data
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.14%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) JIRA
2 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Storybook
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) MSTest
5 1 (2.38%) NUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Electronics
3 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.14%) Marketing
3 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Data Scientist
5 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Integration Test Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) PySpark
2 4 (9.52%) CSS
2 4 (9.52%) HTML
2 4 (9.52%) Hugging Face
2 4 (9.52%) NumPy
2 4 (9.52%) Pandas
2 4 (9.52%) PyTorch
2 4 (9.52%) React
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
2 4 (9.52%) scikit-learn
2 4 (9.52%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) Prophet
3 3 (7.14%) Spring
3 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.14%) Vitest
4 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) PKI
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) DevOps
2 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) Agile
4 8 (19.05%) AI
4 8 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (19.05%) Migration
4 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 6 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.90%) Scrum
8 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.52%) Data Migration
8 4 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 4 (9.52%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.52%) Statistical Analysis
8 4 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
1 13 (30.95%) SQL
2 8 (19.05%) C#
3 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) VB
5 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (9.52%) SCCM
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) PaperCut
2 3 (7.14%) Podman
2 3 (7.14%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Citrix
2 5 (11.90%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Autodesk
3 3 (7.14%) Sage
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) Zscaler
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) Dell
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) Isilon
5 1 (2.38%) NetApp
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Veeam