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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure 74 46 33
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 13.31% 23.59% 7.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.01% 60.53% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 40 25
10th Percentile £402 £243 £225
25th Percentile £461 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £421 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.19% -1.06% -12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £585
90th Percentile £640 £707 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £421 £438
% change year-on-year +24.85% -3.89% -12.50%
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 151 76 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.16% 38.97% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 60 95
10th Percentile £377 £273 £200
25th Percentile £413 £358 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £550
90th Percentile £640 £678 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £486 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.48% +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% -18.61%
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% -18.61%

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 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 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (17.57%) GCP
3 12 (16.22%) GitHub
4 10 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.76%) dbt
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.05%) Google App Engine
10 2 (2.70%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (2.70%) Figma
10 2 (2.70%) IaaS
11 1 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) Network Security
3 5 (6.76%) WAN
3 5 (6.76%) Wireless
4 4 (5.41%) BGP
4 4 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (5.41%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (5.41%) DNS
4 4 (5.41%) IPsec
4 4 (5.41%) LAN
4 4 (5.41%) OSPF
5 3 (4.05%) BIG-IP
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (4.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (4.05%) ICMP
5 3 (4.05%) NGFW
5 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.05%) VSAN
6 2 (2.70%) MPLS
6 2 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) Power BI
4 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.76%) MySQL
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.41%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.41%) JUnit
2 4 (5.41%) Storybook
3 3 (4.05%) GitLab
3 3 (4.05%) Jaeger
4 2 (2.70%) Postman
5 1 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (18.92%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.86%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.05%) Electronics
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing
5 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Developer
1 19 (25.68%) Senior
2 16 (21.62%) Architect
3 12 (16.22%) Data Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Technical Architect
5 9 (12.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Architect
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Technical Architect
10 4 (5.41%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) .NET
2 12 (16.22%) React
3 10 (13.51%) CSS
4 8 (10.81%) RESTful
5 6 (8.11%) .NET Framework
5 6 (8.11%) Entity Framework
6 5 (6.76%) HTML
6 5 (6.76%) Material-UI
6 5 (6.76%) PySpark
7 4 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.41%) REST
7 4 (5.41%) SOAP
7 4 (5.41%) Spring
7 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.41%) Vitest
8 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.05%) Loki
8 3 (4.05%) OAuth
9 2 (2.70%) JSON
9 2 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.11%) PKI
3 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Replication
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) DevOps
2 20 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 19 (25.68%) Agile
4 15 (20.27%) Migration
5 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (18.92%) Microservices
6 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (14.86%) ITIL
7 10 (13.51%) AI
7 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 10 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.51%) Incident Response
8 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.81%) Analytics
9 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.81%) DevSecOps
9 8 (10.81%) ETL
10 7 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (9.46%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.49%) SQL
2 19 (25.68%) Python
3 13 (17.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.16%) C#
5 9 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.11%) Bash
6 6 (8.11%) Go
7 4 (5.41%) Java
7 4 (5.41%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.05%) Bicep
9 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 40 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 31 (41.89%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.27%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.76%) CCNP
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.05%) MCSE
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.35%) CCDA
7 1 (1.35%) CCDP
7 1 (1.35%) CCIE
7 1 (1.35%) CCIP
7 1 (1.35%) CCNA
7 1 (1.35%) CCSE
7 1 (1.35%) CCSM
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) NIST
2 6 (8.11%) GDPR
2 6 (8.11%) NCSC
3 5 (6.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.41%) GRC
5 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.35%) QA
6 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.16%) Docker
3 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.81%) Terraform
3 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 5 (6.76%) Rancher
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
4 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.05%) Istio
5 3 (4.05%) PaperCut
5 3 (4.05%) Podman
5 3 (4.05%) Proxmox
5 3 (4.05%) SCCM
5 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) CASB
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) VMware
3 9 (12.16%) Databricks
4 7 (9.46%) Cisco
4 7 (9.46%) Palo Alto
5 6 (8.11%) Citrix
6 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.41%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.05%) Autodesk
7 3 (4.05%) F5
7 3 (4.05%) SAP
8 2 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.70%) Cognos
8 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.70%) HP
8 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.35%) Arista
9 1 (1.35%) Aruba
9 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.35%) Splunk