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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 160 34 56
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 20.57% 15.25% 17.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 78.82% 46.58% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 25 38
10th Percentile £413 £294 £326
25th Percentile £462 £325 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £375 £478
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -21.47% -15.43%
75th Percentile £603 £463 £517
90th Percentile £638 £565 £599
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £375 £471
% change year-on-year +43.33% -20.34% -18.13%
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 203 73 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 26.09% 32.74% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 44 73
10th Percentile £398 £290 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £416 £480
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -13.28% -10.90%
75th Percentile £594 £478 £550
90th Percentile £638 £621 £618
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -11.83%
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 6 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 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (40.63%) AWS
2 33 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (11.88%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.88%) GCP
7 10 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (5.63%) GitHub
8 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (3.13%) dbt
9 5 (3.13%) Google App Engine
9 5 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.50%) IaaS
10 4 (2.50%) SaaS
11 3 (1.88%) PaaS
12 2 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.75%) Firewall
2 19 (11.88%) DNS
3 16 (10.00%) VPN
4 13 (8.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (8.13%) TCP/IP
5 12 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (6.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (6.25%) Network Security
7 10 (6.25%) WAN
8 9 (5.63%) LAN
8 9 (5.63%) VSAN
9 8 (5.00%) BGP
9 8 (5.00%) IPsec
9 8 (5.00%) OSPF
10 7 (4.38%) BIG-IP
10 7 (4.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (4.38%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.75%) DHCP
11 6 (3.75%) MPLS
11 6 (3.75%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) Power BI
2 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.25%) Metadata
5 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.25%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Git
2 6 (3.75%) GitLab
3 4 (2.50%) Jaeger
4 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.88%) JIRA
4 3 (1.88%) Selenium
4 3 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.88%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.88%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.88%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.25%) MSTest
5 2 (1.25%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) MSI
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 17 (10.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.50%) Finance
3 11 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.13%) Retail
7 4 (2.50%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.25%) Military
9 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (20.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (20.00%) Senior
4 31 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (13.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 20 (12.50%) Architect
8 12 (7.50%) Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Technical Architect
11 9 (5.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.00%) Network Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Citrix Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Linux Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) DBA
15 5 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.38%) .NET
2 10 (6.25%) React
2 10 (6.25%) REST
3 9 (5.63%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 5 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.13%) PySpark
4 5 (3.13%) SOAP
5 4 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.50%) Loki
5 4 (2.50%) OAuth
6 3 (1.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.88%) CSS
6 3 (1.88%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.88%) RESTful
7 2 (1.25%) Spring
8 1 (0.63%) JSON
8 1 (0.63%) NHibernate
8 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (10.63%) Public Cloud
3 15 (9.38%) PKI
4 13 (8.13%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 12 (7.50%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.38%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.75%) ARM Cortex
7 6 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.75%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.25%) Linux
2 24 (15.00%) Windows
3 10 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.75%) Debian
5 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.25%) DevOps
2 57 (35.63%) CI/CD
3 37 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (21.25%) Agile
4 34 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (16.88%) ITIL
6 21 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (13.13%) Migration
7 20 (12.50%) Zero Trust
8 19 (11.88%) Cloud Security
8 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (10.63%) Analytics
9 17 (10.63%) DevSecOps
10 16 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.38%) Test Automation
11 15 (9.38%) Validation
12 14 (8.75%) RBAC
13 13 (8.13%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (8.13%) Incident Response
13 13 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.13%) SQL
2 26 (16.25%) PowerShell
3 19 (11.88%) Bicep
3 19 (11.88%) Python
4 17 (10.63%) Bash
5 11 (6.88%) C#
6 10 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.75%) Go
9 5 (3.13%) Java
9 5 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 87 (54.38%) SC Cleared
3 43 (26.88%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.50%) CCNP
4 12 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (6.25%) Degree
6 9 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.75%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.75%) MCSE
8 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.13%) CCSE
8 5 (3.13%) CCSM
9 4 (2.50%) MCSA
9 4 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.88%) CCIE
11 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.63%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) NCSC
2 7 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) NIST
4 5 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.13%) QA
4 5 (3.13%) SLA
5 4 (2.50%) GRC
5 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 23 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (13.13%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 8 (5.00%) Docker
5 7 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (22.50%) Terraform
2 13 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.63%) Ansible
5 6 (3.75%) SCCM
6 5 (3.13%) Grafana
6 5 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.13%) Rancher
7 4 (2.50%) Istio
8 2 (1.25%) SCOM
8 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) CASB
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.63%) Packer
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (38.13%) Microsoft
2 40 (25.00%) VMware
3 23 (14.38%) Cisco
4 18 (11.25%) Palo Alto
5 10 (6.25%) Citrix
6 8 (5.00%) Databricks
6 8 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.38%) CheckPoint
7 7 (4.38%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (4.38%) F5
8 6 (3.75%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.25%) Google
10 2 (1.25%) HP
11 1 (0.63%) Arista
11 1 (0.63%) Aruba
11 1 (0.63%) Dell
11 1 (0.63%) Juniper
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle
11 1 (0.63%) Red Hat