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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 131 28 38
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 17.51% 17.61% 9.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 68.59% 62.22% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 25 24
10th Percentile £401 £314 £225
25th Percentile £462 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £421 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.85% -9.08% -8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £586
90th Percentile £640 £618 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £522 £421 £469
% change year-on-year +24.14% -10.29% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £23.22
75th Percentile - - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 - £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 45 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.53% 28.30% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 36 81
10th Percentile £390 £303 £213
25th Percentile £456 £347 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £508
90th Percentile £638 £621 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +132.26% -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.50 £19.53
% change year-on-year +148.28% -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 16 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 (1.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.69%) AWS
2 33 (25.19%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.40%) GCP
6 9 (6.87%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.87%) GitHub
6 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.82%) dbt
7 5 (3.82%) Google App Engine
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.05%) IaaS
9 3 (2.29%) PaaS
9 3 (2.29%) SaaS
10 2 (1.53%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.53%) Figma
11 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) Firewall
2 8 (6.11%) VSAN
3 7 (5.34%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (5.34%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (4.58%) Network Security
5 5 (3.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (3.82%) WAN
5 5 (3.82%) Wireless
6 4 (3.05%) BGP
6 4 (3.05%) IPsec
6 4 (3.05%) LAN
6 4 (3.05%) OSPF
7 3 (2.29%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (2.29%) DNS
7 3 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (2.29%) ICMP
7 3 (2.29%) NGFW
7 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.21%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.45%) Power BI
3 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.05%) MySQL
6 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.53%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.76%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) GitLab
3 5 (3.82%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.05%) Jaeger
4 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.05%) JIRA
5 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.29%) Selenium
5 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.29%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.53%) MSTest
6 2 (1.53%) NUnit
6 2 (1.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.76%) JUnit
7 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 16 (12.21%) Finance
2 13 (9.92%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.63%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.05%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (22.14%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (21.37%) Senior
3 23 (17.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (16.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 20 (15.27%) Developer
7 19 (14.50%) Architect
8 15 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (10.69%) Technical Architect
10 12 (9.16%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Network Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Architect
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Technical Architect
12 6 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.82%) Citrix Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) .NET
2 13 (9.92%) React
3 9 (6.87%) REST
4 7 (5.34%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.34%) Entity Framework
5 6 (4.58%) CSS
6 5 (3.82%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.82%) RESTful
6 5 (3.82%) SOAP
7 4 (3.05%) Loki
7 4 (3.05%) OAuth
7 4 (3.05%) PySpark
8 3 (2.29%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.29%) Spring
9 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.53%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.53%) JSON
9 2 (1.53%) LINQ
9 2 (1.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Public Cloud
2 12 (9.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.63%) PKI
4 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.76%) Clustering
10 1 (0.76%) CMDB
10 1 (0.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Linux
2 14 (10.69%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Debian
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) DevOps
2 46 (35.11%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.43%) Agile
4 29 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (18.32%) Migration
6 22 (16.79%) ITIL
7 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.21%) Microservices
10 15 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (10.69%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.16%) Incident Response
12 12 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (9.16%) Test Automation
13 11 (8.40%) Analytics
13 11 (8.40%) High Availability
14 10 (7.63%) Cloud Security
14 10 (7.63%) ETL
15 9 (6.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.24%) SQL
2 19 (14.50%) Python
3 14 (10.69%) C#
3 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
4 12 (9.16%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.63%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.87%) Bash
7 7 (5.34%) Bicep
7 7 (5.34%) Go
8 6 (4.58%) Java
8 6 (4.58%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 80 (61.07%) Security Cleared
2 73 (55.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (21.37%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.63%) CCNP
4 10 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.82%) MCSE
7 4 (3.05%) CCSE
7 4 (3.05%) CCSM
8 3 (2.29%) Degree
8 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.76%) CCIE
10 1 (0.76%) RHCA
10 1 (0.76%) RHCE
10 1 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) NCSC
2 10 (7.63%) NIST
3 6 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.58%) GDPR
4 5 (3.82%) GRC
4 5 (3.82%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.05%) SLA
6 3 (2.29%) QA
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.76%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 18 (13.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.92%) VMware NSX
3 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.87%) Docker
5 7 (5.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (16.79%) Terraform
2 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.58%) Rancher
5 5 (3.82%) Grafana
5 5 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.05%) Istio
7 3 (2.29%) Ansible
7 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.53%) SCOM
9 1 (0.76%) CASB
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.76%) Packer
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 46 (35.11%) Microsoft
2 31 (23.66%) VMware
3 15 (11.45%) Cisco
4 12 (9.16%) Palo Alto
5 10 (7.63%) Citrix
5 10 (7.63%) Databricks
6 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.58%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.82%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.29%) F5
10 2 (1.53%) Cognos
10 2 (1.53%) HP
10 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.76%) Aruba
11 1 (0.76%) Dell
11 1 (0.76%) Juniper
11 1 (0.76%) Meraki
11 1 (0.76%) Oracle
11 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds