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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 2 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 74 49
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 14.68% 25.69% 8.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.57% 56.92% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 37
10th Percentile £309 £335 £320
25th Percentile £325 £393 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £530 £625
90th Percentile £575 £618 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £473 £560
% change year-on-year +0.37% -15.49% +1.82%

All Cloud 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 89 130 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 35.32% 45.14% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 95 115
10th Percentile £201 £339 £204
25th Percentile £325 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% -8.57% +4.58%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £610 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -11.46% -8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.78 £16.85
25th Percentile - £19.19 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £21.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -
75th Percentile - £23.19 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.53 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £21.25 £20.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +3.66% -

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 13 October 2025.

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 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (10.81%) ChatGPT
5 4 (10.81%) dbt
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) Fivetran
7 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Kontent
8 1 (2.70%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) MPLS
2 1 (2.70%) NAS
2 1 (2.70%) SAN
2 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Big Data
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.70%) MS Access
5 1 (2.70%) OLAP
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.70%) MSTest
5 1 (2.70%) NUnit
5 1 (2.70%) QARun
5 1 (2.70%) Selenium
5 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.70%) WinRunner
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Financial Institution
3 4 (10.81%) General Ledger
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Test Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Scientist
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Test Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Hugging Face
1 4 (10.81%) NumPy
1 4 (10.81%) Pandas
1 4 (10.81%) PyTorch
1 4 (10.81%) scikit-learn
1 4 (10.81%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (8.11%) Prophet
2 3 (8.11%) PySpark
2 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) Django
3 2 (5.41%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.41%) Flask
3 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.70%) CSS3
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) DevOps
2 11 (29.73%) Migration
2 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
4 8 (21.62%) Agile
4 8 (21.62%) Microservices
5 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.22%) Integration Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Logistics
6 6 (16.22%) Software Testing
6 6 (16.22%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Test Planning
6 6 (16.22%) Waterfall
7 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Defect Management
7 5 (13.51%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (13.51%) Scrum
7 5 (13.51%) SDLC
7 5 (13.51%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) C#
3 5 (13.51%) VB
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) Podman
1 1 (2.70%) Proxmox
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Citrix
2 3 (8.11%) Databricks
2 3 (8.11%) Sage
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Dell
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Isilon
4 1 (2.70%) NetApp
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Veeam
4 1 (2.70%) Zscaler