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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure 84 46 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 13.44% 22.66% 7.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.50% 62.16% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 40 24
10th Percentile £402 £243 £225
25th Percentile £462 £350 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £421 £413
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% +1.94% -15.38%
75th Percentile £610 £599 £559
90th Percentile £640 £707 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £421 £425
% change year-on-year +30.80% -1.06% -15.00%
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 157 74 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.12% 36.45% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 57 91
10th Percentile £392 £269 £199
25th Percentile £422 £350 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +12.22% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £550
90th Percentile £640 £686 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £12.33 -
25th Percentile - £12.81 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £13.75 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +161.82% -29.60% -
75th Percentile - £14.81 £23.82
90th Percentile - £15.38 £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £13.75 £19.53
% change year-on-year +161.82% -29.60% -

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 29 March 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 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.29%) AWS
2 17 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.48%) GitHub
4 12 (14.29%) GCP
4 12 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 6 (7.14%) dbt
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.57%) Google App Engine
11 2 (2.38%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (2.38%) Figma
11 2 (2.38%) IaaS
12 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (1.19%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) Network Security
2 6 (7.14%) VSAN
3 5 (5.95%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (5.95%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (5.95%) WAN
3 5 (5.95%) Wireless
4 4 (4.76%) BGP
4 4 (4.76%) DNS
4 4 (4.76%) IPsec
4 4 (4.76%) LAN
4 4 (4.76%) OSPF
5 3 (3.57%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (3.57%) ICMP
5 3 (3.57%) NGFW
5 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.33%) Power BI
4 5 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.95%) MySQL
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.38%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
1 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.76%) JUnit
2 4 (4.76%) Storybook
3 3 (3.57%) GitLab
3 3 (3.57%) Jaeger
3 3 (3.57%) JIRA
4 2 (2.38%) Postman
5 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.19%) Selenium
5 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (17.86%) Finance
1 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Electronics
5 3 (3.57%) Marketing
5 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Senior
2 19 (22.62%) Developer
3 18 (21.43%) Architect
4 13 (15.48%) Data Engineer
4 13 (15.48%) Technical Architect
5 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Architect
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
11 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) .NET
2 12 (14.29%) React
3 9 (10.71%) CSS
4 8 (9.52%) RESTful
5 6 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 6 (7.14%) Entity Framework
5 6 (7.14%) PySpark
6 5 (5.95%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.76%) HTML
7 4 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (4.76%) Spring
7 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.76%) Vitest
8 3 (3.57%) Loki
8 3 (3.57%) OAuth
8 3 (3.57%) REST
8 3 (3.57%) SOAP
9 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.38%) Node.js
9 2 (2.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 10 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (10.71%) PKI
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.19%) Clustering
6 1 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Replication
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Debian
3 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) DevOps
2 23 (27.38%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) CI/CD
3 19 (22.62%) Migration
4 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (19.05%) Microservices
6 13 (15.48%) ITIL
7 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
7 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.90%) AI
8 10 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.90%) DevSecOps
8 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (11.90%) Incident Response
8 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.52%) Analytics
9 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.52%) ETL
10 7 (8.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) SQL
2 20 (23.81%) Python
3 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.90%) C#
4 10 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.14%) Bash
5 6 (7.14%) Go
6 5 (5.95%) Java
7 4 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 47 (55.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (22.62%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.33%) CCNP
4 7 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.76%) MCSE
7 3 (3.57%) Degree
8 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.38%) CCSE
8 2 (2.38%) CCSM
9 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.19%) CCDA
9 1 (1.19%) CCDP
9 1 (1.19%) CCIE
9 1 (1.19%) CCIP
9 1 (1.19%) CCNA
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) NIST
2 9 (10.71%) NCSC
3 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.95%) GDPR
4 4 (4.76%) GRC
4 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.38%) SLA
7 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Active Directory
1 11 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (9.52%) Docker
3 7 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 6 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (9.52%) Terraform
2 5 (5.95%) Ansible
2 5 (5.95%) Rancher
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
3 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.57%) Istio
4 3 (3.57%) PaperCut
4 3 (3.57%) Podman
4 3 (3.57%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.57%) SCCM
4 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.19%) CASB
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 31 (36.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.43%) VMware
3 10 (11.90%) Cisco
3 10 (11.90%) Databricks
3 10 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 8 (9.52%) Citrix
5 4 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.76%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.57%) Autodesk
6 3 (3.57%) F5
6 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.57%) SAP
7 2 (2.38%) Cognos
7 2 (2.38%) HP
7 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.19%) Arista
8 1 (1.19%) Dell
8 1 (1.19%) Juniper
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle