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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 104 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 15.41% 19.69% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.12% 56.72% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 35 24
10th Percentile £407 £279 £225
25th Percentile £462 £355 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £421 £413
Median % change year-on-year +26.22% +1.94% -17.50%
75th Percentile £608 £599 £559
90th Percentile £640 £727 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £421 £425
% change year-on-year +24.85% -1.06% -15.84%
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 173 67 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.63% 34.72% 27.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 52 86
10th Percentile £395 £301 £208
25th Percentile £451 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £550
90th Percentile £640 £700 £647
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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% -
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% -

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 April 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 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.42%) AWS
2 25 (24.04%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (10.58%) GCP
4 11 (10.58%) GitHub
4 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.77%) dbt
7 4 (3.85%) IaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.88%) Google App Engine
8 3 (2.88%) PaaS
8 3 (2.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.92%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (1.92%) Figma
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) Firewall
2 6 (5.77%) Network Security
2 6 (5.77%) VSAN
3 5 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.81%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.81%) WAN
3 5 (4.81%) Wireless
4 4 (3.85%) BGP
4 4 (3.85%) IPsec
4 4 (3.85%) LAN
4 4 (3.85%) OSPF
5 3 (2.88%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.88%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.88%) DNS
5 3 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (2.88%) ICMP
5 3 (2.88%) NGFW
5 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.58%) Power BI
3 10 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.73%) MySQL
5 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.85%) Git
2 4 (3.85%) GitLab
2 4 (3.85%) JUnit
2 4 (3.85%) Storybook
3 3 (2.88%) Jaeger
3 3 (2.88%) JIRA
4 2 (1.92%) Postman
5 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.38%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Electronics
5 3 (2.88%) Marketing
5 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Senior
2 20 (19.23%) Architect
2 20 (19.23%) Developer
3 18 (17.31%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Technical Architect
6 13 (12.50%) Data Engineer
7 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Senior Architect
9 7 (6.73%) Senior Technical Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Network Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) DBA
12 4 (3.85%) Senior Manager
12 4 (3.85%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) .NET
2 13 (12.50%) React
3 9 (8.65%) CSS
4 8 (7.69%) RESTful
5 6 (5.77%) .NET Framework
5 6 (5.77%) Entity Framework
6 5 (4.81%) Material-UI
6 5 (4.81%) PySpark
7 4 (3.85%) HTML
7 4 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (3.85%) Spring
7 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.85%) Vitest
8 3 (2.88%) Loki
8 3 (2.88%) OAuth
8 3 (2.88%) REST
8 3 (2.88%) SOAP
9 2 (1.92%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.92%) Node.js
9 2 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.73%) PKI
5 6 (5.77%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.96%) Clustering
9 1 (0.96%) CMDB
9 1 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) Replication
9 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
2 10 (9.62%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Debian
4 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) DevOps
2 34 (32.69%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.88%) Agile
4 25 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (23.08%) Migration
6 17 (16.35%) Microservices
7 15 (14.42%) ITIL
7 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.46%) DevSecOps
9 13 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (10.58%) Incident Response
12 10 (9.62%) Cloud Security
12 10 (9.62%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (9.62%) High Availability
13 9 (8.65%) Analytics
13 9 (8.65%) Containerisation
13 9 (8.65%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.81%) SQL
2 18 (17.31%) Python
3 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.58%) C#
4 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.69%) Bash
6 7 (6.73%) Bicep
7 6 (5.77%) Go
7 6 (5.77%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.81%) Java
9 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 65 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 60 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 21 (20.19%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) CCNP
4 8 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.81%) MCSE
7 3 (2.88%) Degree
8 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.92%) CCSE
8 2 (1.92%) CCSM
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.96%) CCIP
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.96%) PMP
9 1 (0.96%) RHCA
9 1 (0.96%) RHCE
9 1 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.50%) NCSC
2 10 (9.62%) NIST
3 5 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.81%) GDPR
4 4 (3.85%) GRC
4 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.92%) QA
6 2 (1.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.96%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 11 (10.58%) Active Directory
1 11 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (8.65%) VMware NSX
3 7 (6.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (4.81%) Docker
5 4 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Terraform
2 9 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.81%) Rancher
4 4 (3.85%) Grafana
4 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.88%) Ansible
5 3 (2.88%) Istio
5 3 (2.88%) PaperCut
5 3 (2.88%) SCCM
5 3 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.96%) CASB
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.96%) Packer
6 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 43 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.23%) VMware
3 10 (9.62%) Cisco
3 10 (9.62%) Databricks
3 10 (9.62%) Palo Alto
4 9 (8.65%) Citrix
5 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.88%) Autodesk
7 3 (2.88%) F5
7 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.88%) SAP
8 2 (1.92%) Cognos
8 2 (1.92%) HP
8 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.96%) Arista
9 1 (0.96%) Dell
9 1 (0.96%) Juniper
9 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.96%) Zscaler