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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 133 28 40
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 17.66% 17.50% 10.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 69.63% 62.22% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 24 26
10th Percentile £401 £312 £225
25th Percentile £462 £347 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £419 £478
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -12.25% -4.50%
75th Percentile £608 £576 £588
90th Percentile £639 £600 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £421 £475
% change year-on-year +24.85% -11.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
75th Percentile - - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £23.22

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 45 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.37% 28.13% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 35 84
10th Percentile £393 £303 £213
25th Percentile £456 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £462 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% +2.67% -11.33%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £520
90th Percentile £638 £608 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £501 £450
% change year-on-year +2.40% +11.22% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year - -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.50 £19.53
% change year-on-year - -25.76% +7.03%

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 21 May 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 (1.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.10%) AWS
2 34 (25.56%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.28%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.27%) GCP
6 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.77%) GitHub
6 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.76%) dbt
7 5 (3.76%) Google App Engine
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.01%) IaaS
9 3 (2.26%) PaaS
9 3 (2.26%) SaaS
10 2 (1.50%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.50%) Figma
11 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Firewall
2 8 (6.02%) VSAN
3 7 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (3.76%) Network Security
4 5 (3.76%) WAN
4 5 (3.76%) Wireless
5 4 (3.01%) BGP
5 4 (3.01%) IPsec
5 4 (3.01%) LAN
5 4 (3.01%) OSPF
6 3 (2.26%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.26%) DNS
6 3 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (2.26%) ICMP
6 3 (2.26%) NGFW
6 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.28%) Power BI
3 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.01%) MySQL
6 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.75%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) GitLab
3 5 (3.76%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.01%) Jaeger
4 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.01%) JIRA
5 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.26%) Selenium
5 3 (2.26%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.26%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.50%) MSTest
6 2 (1.50%) NUnit
6 2 (1.50%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) JUnit
7 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) Storybook
General
1 16 (12.03%) Finance
2 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.01%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.01%) Retail
7 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (21.05%) Senior
3 23 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (15.04%) Developer
6 19 (14.29%) Architect
7 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (10.53%) Technical Architect
9 12 (9.02%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
11 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Citrix Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.29%) .NET
2 13 (9.77%) React
3 9 (6.77%) REST
4 7 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 6 (4.51%) CSS
6 5 (3.76%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.76%) RESTful
6 5 (3.76%) SOAP
7 4 (3.01%) Loki
7 4 (3.01%) OAuth
7 4 (3.01%) PySpark
8 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.26%) Spring
9 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.50%) JSON
9 2 (1.50%) LINQ
9 2 (1.50%) Node.js
9 2 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.04%) Public Cloud
2 12 (9.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.52%) PKI
4 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.51%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.75%) Clustering
11 1 (0.75%) CMDB
11 1 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.05%) Linux
2 14 (10.53%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Debian
4 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) DevOps
2 47 (35.34%) CI/CD
3 31 (23.31%) Agile
4 30 (22.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (18.05%) Migration
6 23 (17.29%) ITIL
7 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.03%) Microservices
10 15 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (10.53%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.02%) Incident Response
12 12 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
13 11 (8.27%) Analytics
13 11 (8.27%) High Availability
14 10 (7.52%) Containerisation
14 10 (7.52%) ETL
15 9 (6.77%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.82%) SQL
2 19 (14.29%) Python
3 14 (10.53%) C#
3 14 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 12 (9.02%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.77%) Bash
7 7 (5.26%) Bicep
7 7 (5.26%) Go
8 6 (4.51%) Java
8 6 (4.51%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 79 (59.40%) Security Cleared
2 72 (54.14%) SC Cleared
3 28 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) CCNP
4 10 (7.52%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.76%) MCSE
7 4 (3.01%) CCSE
7 4 (3.01%) CCSM
7 4 (3.01%) Degree
8 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.75%) RHCA
10 1 (0.75%) RHCE
10 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) NCSC
2 9 (6.77%) NIST
3 5 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 5 (3.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.01%) GRC
4 4 (3.01%) SLA
5 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.26%) QA
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.75%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 20 (15.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.77%) VMware NSX
3 12 (9.02%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.77%) Docker
5 7 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.76%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (16.54%) Terraform
2 12 (9.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.51%) Rancher
5 5 (3.76%) Grafana
5 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.01%) Istio
7 3 (2.26%) Ansible
7 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.50%) SCOM
9 1 (0.75%) CASB
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.75%) Packer
9 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 45 (33.83%) Microsoft
2 33 (24.81%) VMware
3 15 (11.28%) Cisco
4 12 (9.02%) Palo Alto
5 10 (7.52%) Citrix
5 10 (7.52%) Databricks
6 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.51%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.26%) F5
10 2 (1.50%) Cognos
10 2 (1.50%) HP
10 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.75%) Arista
11 1 (0.75%) Dell
11 1 (0.75%) Juniper
11 1 (0.75%) Meraki
11 1 (0.75%) Oracle
11 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.75%) Zscaler