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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 2 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure 46 87 37
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 12.74% 30.74% 7.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.66% 62.59% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 68 31
10th Percentile £413 £294 £225
25th Percentile £454 £370 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £430 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.65% -7.03% -5.13%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £613
90th Percentile £640 £636 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £522 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +21.40% -7.03% -11.90%
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 119 139 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.96% 49.12% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 101 88
10th Percentile £311 £308 £175
25th Percentile £407 £400 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £573 £602
90th Percentile £604 £675 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £467 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -7.62% +12.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £12.65 -
25th Percentile - £13.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -21.95% -14.58%
75th Percentile - £19.13 £21.75
90th Percentile - £20.55 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +125.00% -21.95% -14.58%

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 24 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
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) dbt
5 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
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
6 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
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
8 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) MPLS
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) 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 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) 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 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) 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%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Data Scientist
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
9 1 (2.17%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.17%) C# Web Developer
9 1 (2.17%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) .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
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.17%) CSS3
5 1 (2.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.52%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) DevOps
2 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.39%) AI
4 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.04%) Scrum
6 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
6 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (10.87%) ITIL
6 5 (10.87%) Microservices
6 5 (10.87%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.70%) Data Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (8.70%) Incident Response
7 4 (8.70%) LLM
7 4 (8.70%) Machine Learning
7 4 (8.70%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) SQL
2 13 (28.26%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 4 (8.70%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
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 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.17%) 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 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) 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
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) VMware