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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 2 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure 46 88 37
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 13.94% 30.56% 7.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.02% 61.97% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 69 32
10th Percentile £374 £298 £225
25th Percentile £451 £372 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £544
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -20.92% +11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £645
90th Percentile £640 £650 £739
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £524 £430 £525
% change year-on-year +21.74% -18.10% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 -
% change year-on-year +200.00% - -

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 121 142 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 36.67% 49.31% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 102 98
10th Percentile £271 £308 £182
25th Percentile £406 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -4.69% +5.50%
75th Percentile £561 £584 £643
90th Percentile £623 £673 £745
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -6.73% -3.00% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile - £22.63 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +80.00% -2.44% -

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 December 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 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) dbt
4 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.87%) Serverless
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (8.70%) ChatGPT
7 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.35%) Fivetran
8 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.35%) PaaS
9 1 (2.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) NAS
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) SAN
3 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.70%) Big Data
3 3 (6.52%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Git
3 3 (6.52%) JUnit
3 3 (6.52%) Storybook
4 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) MSTest
5 1 (2.17%) NUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Electronics
4 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.52%) Marketing
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Scientist
5 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Integration Test Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) PySpark
3 4 (8.70%) CSS
3 4 (8.70%) HTML
3 4 (8.70%) Hugging Face
3 4 (8.70%) NumPy
3 4 (8.70%) Pandas
3 4 (8.70%) PyTorch
3 4 (8.70%) React
3 4 (8.70%) RESTful
3 4 (8.70%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.52%) Prophet
4 3 (6.52%) Spring
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.52%) Vitest
4 3 (6.52%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.17%) HTML5
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) PKI
1 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) DevOps
2 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.09%) Agile
4 8 (17.39%) AI
4 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.04%) Migration
6 6 (13.04%) Scrum
6 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.87%) ITIL
8 4 (8.70%) A/B Testing
8 4 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (8.70%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.70%) Data Science
8 4 (8.70%) Incident Response
8 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) SQL
2 13 (28.26%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) C#
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.70%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) SCCM
2 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.52%) PaperCut
2 3 (6.52%) Podman
2 3 (6.52%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 4 (8.70%) Citrix
4 3 (6.52%) Autodesk
4 3 (6.52%) Sage
4 3 (6.52%) SAP
4 3 (6.52%) Zscaler
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) VMware
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) Isilon
6 1 (2.17%) NetApp
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam