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

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 2 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 44 79 37
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 11.70% 30.74% 7.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.67% 61.24% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 62 29
10th Percentile £413 £266 £225
25th Percentile £462 £354 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £625
90th Percentile £640 £648 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £522 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +22.82% -8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
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 - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - -
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 120 129 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.91% 50.19% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 93 83
10th Percentile £312 £270 £185
25th Percentile £412 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £573 £625
90th Percentile £601 £656 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £507 £450
% change year-on-year -6.27% +12.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £12.65 -
25th Percentile - £13.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £21.86
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -26.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile - £19.13 £23.82
90th Percentile - £20.55 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £21.86
% change year-on-year +125.00% -26.80% -8.93%

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 7 January 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 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) GitHub
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) dbt
3 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.55%) Fivetran
6 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.27%) Kontent
7 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.27%) prismic.io
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) MPLS
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) MySQL
3 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) JUnit
2 3 (6.82%) Storybook
3 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) MSTest
4 1 (2.27%) NUnit
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Electronics
3 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.82%) Marketing
3 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Senior
2 10 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Presales Consultant
10 1 (2.27%) Security Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Support Manager
10 1 (2.27%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) PySpark
3 4 (9.09%) CSS
3 4 (9.09%) HTML
3 4 (9.09%) React
3 4 (9.09%) RESTful
4 3 (6.82%) Spring
4 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.82%) Vitest
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.27%) CSS3
5 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.27%) HTML5
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) PKI
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 13 (29.55%) DevOps
3 11 (25.00%) Agile
4 8 (18.18%) AI
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
7 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (11.36%) ITIL
7 5 (11.36%) Microservices
7 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.09%) DevSecOps
8 4 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 4 (9.09%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.64%) C#
5 4 (9.09%) Java
5 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GDPR
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.27%) GRC
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.36%) Docker
3 4 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) SCCM
2 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.82%) PaperCut
2 3 (6.82%) Podman
2 3 (6.82%) Proxmox
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Databricks
3 4 (9.09%) Citrix
4 3 (6.82%) Autodesk
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 3 (6.82%) Zscaler
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) VMware
36 Azure jobs in Milton Keynes