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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure 167 34 58
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 21.72% 14.47% 19.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 78.77% 43.04% 53.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 25 40
10th Percentile £417 £294 £329
25th Percentile £463 £325 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £490
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -23.47% -10.91%
75th Percentile £599 £488 £530
90th Percentile £626 £565 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £394 £486
% change year-on-year +39.68% -18.98% -13.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - -

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 212 79 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.57% 33.62% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 49 77
10th Percentile £407 £200 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £490
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £590 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +23.53% -11.46% -10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.78
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -27.06% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.53
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +29.63% -36.47% +11.84%

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 August 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 (1.20%) IIS
1 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.33%) AWS
2 30 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (10.18%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.98%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (5.39%) GitHub
6 9 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.79%) GCP
8 6 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.99%) dbt
9 5 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.80%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.80%) IaaS
10 3 (1.80%) SaaS
11 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.17%) Firewall
2 20 (11.98%) DNS
3 16 (9.58%) VPN
4 14 (8.38%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (7.19%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (6.59%) Network Security
8 10 (5.99%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (5.39%) LAN
9 9 (5.39%) WAN
10 7 (4.19%) BGP
10 7 (4.19%) BIG-IP
10 7 (4.19%) DHCP
10 7 (4.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (4.19%) IPsec
10 7 (4.19%) OSPF
10 7 (4.19%) VSAN
11 6 (3.59%) NGFW
11 6 (3.59%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) Power BI
2 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.80%) MySQL
6 2 (1.20%) Metadata
6 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.20%) PowerPivot
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.80%) Jaeger
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.80%) JIRA
3 3 (1.80%) Selenium
3 3 (1.80%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.80%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.20%) MSTest
4 2 (1.20%) NUnit
4 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) MSI
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 17 (10.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.78%) Finance
2 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.99%) Retail
6 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Automotive
9 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (20.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (19.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (19.76%) Senior
4 25 (14.97%) Architect
5 24 (14.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (13.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) Technical Architect
9 11 (6.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.99%) Developer
11 9 (5.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Network Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) Citrix Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (3.59%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (21.56%) Terraform
2 19 (11.38%) .NET
3 11 (6.59%) ARM Templates
4 10 (5.99%) React
5 9 (5.39%) REST
6 6 (3.59%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.99%) Entity Framework
7 5 (2.99%) PySpark
8 4 (2.40%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (1.80%) CSS
9 3 (1.80%) Loki
9 3 (1.80%) Material-UI
9 3 (1.80%) OAuth
9 3 (1.80%) RESTful
9 3 (1.80%) SOAP
10 2 (1.20%) Spring
11 1 (0.60%) JSON
11 1 (0.60%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (9.58%) Public Cloud
3 14 (8.38%) PKI
4 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
4 13 (7.78%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.59%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.19%) ARM Cortex
6 7 (4.19%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.59%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.76%) Linux
2 29 (17.37%) Windows
3 15 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.59%) Debian
5 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.53%) CI/CD
1 56 (33.53%) DevOps
2 40 (23.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (19.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (19.76%) ITIL
4 31 (18.56%) Agile
5 23 (13.77%) Analytics
5 23 (13.77%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (11.38%) Migration
7 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.78%) Cloud Security
9 17 (10.18%) Zero Trust
10 16 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (9.58%) Validation
11 15 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (8.98%) DevSecOps
11 15 (8.98%) Test Automation
12 14 (8.38%) Log Analytics
13 13 (7.78%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.96%) SQL
2 27 (16.17%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.98%) Bicep
4 16 (9.58%) Bash
4 16 (9.58%) Python
5 11 (6.59%) C#
6 8 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.99%) Go
7 5 (2.99%) Java
8 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (66.47%) Security Cleared
2 92 (55.09%) SC Cleared
3 46 (27.54%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.59%) CCNP
4 11 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (6.59%) Degree
5 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.59%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.59%) MCSE
8 5 (2.99%) CCSE
8 5 (2.99%) CCSM
9 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.40%) MCSA
9 4 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) CCIE
11 1 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) NCSC
2 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.59%) GDPR
4 5 (2.99%) QA
4 5 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (2.40%) NIST
5 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.80%) GRC
6 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.60%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 26 (15.57%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.78%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.79%) Docker
5 7 (4.19%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.79%) Ansible
4 7 (4.19%) SCCM
5 5 (2.99%) SCOM
6 4 (2.40%) Grafana
6 4 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.40%) Rancher
7 3 (1.80%) Istio
8 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (39.52%) Microsoft
2 39 (23.35%) VMware
3 20 (11.98%) Cisco
4 15 (8.98%) Palo Alto
5 11 (6.59%) Databricks
6 9 (5.39%) Citrix
7 8 (4.79%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (4.19%) F5
8 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.59%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.99%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.20%) Google
13 1 (0.60%) Dell
13 1 (0.60%) HP
13 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.60%) Oracle
13 1 (0.60%) Red Hat