Azure Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 30 35 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 15.54% 9.94% 9.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.39% 29.91% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 53
10th Percentile £310 £354 £283
25th Percentile £325 £394 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -10.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £445 £586 £625
90th Percentile £548 £625 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £375 £485 £550
% change year-on-year -22.68% -11.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.82 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £23.82 -

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 62 117 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.12% 33.24% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 140
10th Percentile £286 £225 £274
25th Percentile £325 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -11.83% +7.75%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £625
90th Percentile £605 £613 £702
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £463 £469 £531
% change year-on-year -1.33% -11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £19.18 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.80 £18.75
90th Percentile - £24.13 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £19.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.60% +0.92% +11.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Milton Keynes

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Camunda
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 7 (23.33%) GitHub
5 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.67%) PaaS
7 2 (6.67%) SaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DHCP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) NAS
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Big Data
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) MS Access
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (3.33%) OLAP
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) QARun
3 2 (6.67%) Terragrunt
3 2 (6.67%) WinRunner
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 4 (13.33%) General Ledger
5 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
1 8 (26.67%) Test Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Test Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (10.00%) Django
2 3 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (10.00%) Flask
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Keycloak
3 2 (6.67%) Middleware
3 2 (6.67%) OpenJDK
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Migration
1 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (36.67%) Data Migration
2 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) Microservices
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (26.67%) Integration Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Logistics
4 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
4 8 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 8 (26.67%) Test Planning
4 8 (26.67%) Waterfall
5 7 (23.33%) TOGAF
6 6 (20.00%) Defect Management
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) SDLC
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (16.67%) Data Security
7 5 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) C#
2 6 (20.00%) VB
3 5 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
1 5 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.67%) NCSC
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Commvault
4 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.33%) Dell
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Imperva
4 1 (3.33%) Isilon
4 1 (3.33%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Netskope
4 1 (3.33%) Veeam
4 1 (3.33%) VMware