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

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 143 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 18.89% 17.14% 9.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 75.26% 50.85% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 23 21
10th Percentile £411 £310 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £360 £490
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -26.53% -10.91%
75th Percentile £603 £445 £588
90th Percentile £638 £548 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £375 £485
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.68% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £23.22
75th Percentile - - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - £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 190 59 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.10% 33.71% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 37 78
10th Percentile £400 £286 £225
25th Percentile £462 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -20.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £605 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £463 £469
% change year-on-year +13.51% -1.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -31.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.07
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -40.00% +18.42%

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 24 June 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 (1.40%) IIS
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (44.06%) AWS
2 33 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.39%) GCP
4 12 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.29%) GitHub
5 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (4.20%) dbt
7 5 (3.50%) Google App Engine
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.80%) IaaS
9 3 (2.10%) PaaS
9 3 (2.10%) SaaS
9 3 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.40%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.09%) Firewall
2 12 (8.39%) Cisco Firepower
3 11 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (6.99%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (6.29%) DNS
5 9 (6.29%) VSAN
5 9 (6.29%) WAN
6 8 (5.59%) LAN
7 7 (4.90%) BGP
7 7 (4.90%) IPsec
7 7 (4.90%) Network Security
7 7 (4.90%) OSPF
7 7 (4.90%) VPN
8 6 (4.20%) BIG-IP
8 6 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (4.20%) NGFW
8 6 (4.20%) SD-WAN
8 6 (4.20%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.50%) MPLS
9 5 (3.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Power BI
2 11 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Git
2 6 (4.20%) GitLab
3 5 (3.50%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.80%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.10%) JIRA
5 3 (2.10%) Selenium
5 3 (2.10%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.10%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.10%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.40%) MSTest
6 2 (1.40%) NUnit
6 2 (1.40%) Postman
6 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.70%) JUnit
7 1 (0.70%) MSI
7 1 (0.70%) Storybook
General
1 15 (10.49%) Finance
2 11 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 11 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.50%) Retail
5 4 (2.80%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (20.98%) Senior
3 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (16.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 19 (13.29%) Architect
7 18 (12.59%) Developer
8 12 (8.39%) Data Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) Technical Architect
9 8 (5.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Network Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Citrix Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) DBA
11 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) .NET
1 13 (9.09%) React
2 9 (6.29%) REST
3 7 (4.90%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.90%) Entity Framework
4 6 (4.20%) CSS
5 5 (3.50%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.50%) PySpark
5 5 (3.50%) RESTful
5 5 (3.50%) SOAP
6 4 (2.80%) Loki
6 4 (2.80%) OAuth
7 3 (2.10%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.10%) Spring
8 2 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.40%) JSON
8 2 (1.40%) LINQ
8 2 (1.40%) Node.js
8 2 (1.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Public Cloud
2 16 (11.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (10.49%) PKI
4 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.90%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.20%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.70%) CMDB
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.88%) Linux
2 17 (11.89%) Windows
3 6 (4.20%) Debian
4 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.86%) DevOps
2 51 (35.66%) CI/CD
3 32 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (20.28%) Agile
5 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (16.08%) ITIL
6 23 (16.08%) Migration
7 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (11.89%) Zero Trust
8 15 (10.49%) Cloud Security
8 15 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (10.49%) Microservices
8 15 (10.49%) Test Automation
9 14 (9.79%) DevSecOps
10 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
10 13 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (8.39%) High Availability
11 12 (8.39%) Incident Response
12 11 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.78%) SQL
2 21 (14.69%) Python
3 18 (12.59%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.39%) C#
4 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.29%) Bash
6 9 (6.29%) Bicep
7 7 (4.90%) Go
8 6 (4.20%) Java
8 6 (4.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (62.94%) Security Cleared
2 81 (56.64%) SC Cleared
3 36 (25.17%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.79%) CCNP
4 14 (9.79%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
6 9 (6.29%) MCSE
7 6 (4.20%) Degree
7 6 (4.20%) ISTQB
7 6 (4.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 5 (3.50%) CCSE
8 5 (3.50%) CCSM
9 4 (2.80%) MCSA
10 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.40%) CCIE
12 1 (0.70%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) NCSC
2 9 (6.29%) NIST
3 5 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 5 (3.50%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.50%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) SLA
4 4 (2.80%) GRC
5 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.70%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 24 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.29%) VMware NSX
3 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.59%) Docker
5 7 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (17.48%) Terraform
2 11 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.20%) Rancher
5 5 (3.50%) Grafana
5 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.80%) Ansible
6 4 (2.80%) Istio
7 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.40%) SCOM
9 1 (0.70%) CASB
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.70%) Packer
9 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 43 (30.07%) VMware
3 22 (15.38%) Cisco
4 17 (11.89%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.39%) Citrix
6 9 (6.29%) Databricks
7 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.90%) CheckPoint
9 6 (4.20%) F5
9 6 (4.20%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.80%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.40%) Cognos
11 2 (1.40%) HP
11 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.70%) Arista
12 1 (0.70%) Dell
12 1 (0.70%) Juniper
12 1 (0.70%) Meraki
12 1 (0.70%) Oracle
12 1 (0.70%) Zscaler
45 Azure jobs in Milton Keynes