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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 145 30 35
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 19.03% 16.57% 9.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 75.92% 49.18% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 23 23
10th Percentile £413 £310 £354
25th Percentile £462 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £360 £490
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -26.53% -10.91%
75th Percentile £608 £445 £586
90th Percentile £640 £548 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £375 £485
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.68% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.79
25th Percentile - - £23.06
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £23.82
75th Percentile - - £24.28
90th Percentile - - £24.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - £23.82

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 191 61 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.07% 33.70% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 37 81
10th Percentile £400 £286 £225
25th Percentile £462 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -21.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £596 £538 £550
90th Percentile £639 £605 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +13.51% -2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -19.17% +9.57%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.80
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £19.18
% change year-on-year +29.63% -29.60% +0.92%

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 27 June 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 (1.38%) IIS
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (44.14%) AWS
2 33 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.97%) Entra ID
3 13 (8.97%) GCP
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.28%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.21%) GitHub
5 9 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.83%) dbt
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.45%) Google App Engine
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.76%) IaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.07%) PaaS
10 3 (2.07%) SaaS
11 2 (1.38%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Firewall
2 13 (8.97%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (8.28%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (7.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (6.90%) DNS
5 10 (6.90%) WAN
6 9 (6.21%) LAN
6 9 (6.21%) VSAN
7 8 (5.52%) BGP
7 8 (5.52%) IPsec
7 8 (5.52%) OSPF
7 8 (5.52%) VPN
8 7 (4.83%) BIG-IP
8 7 (4.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (4.83%) Network Security
8 7 (4.83%) SD-WAN
8 7 (4.83%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.14%) MPLS
9 6 (4.14%) NGFW
10 5 (3.45%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) Power BI
2 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.76%) MySQL
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.38%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.69%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Git
2 6 (4.14%) GitLab
3 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.76%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.07%) Selenium
5 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.07%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.07%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.38%) MSTest
6 2 (1.38%) NUnit
6 2 (1.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) JUnit
7 1 (0.69%) MSI
7 1 (0.69%) Storybook
General
1 14 (9.66%) Finance
2 13 (8.97%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.14%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.45%) Retail
6 4 (2.76%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (23.45%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (21.38%) Senior
3 24 (16.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) Architect
7 17 (11.72%) Developer
8 13 (8.97%) Technical Architect
9 12 (8.28%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Citrix Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Lead
12 6 (4.14%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) .NET
1 13 (8.97%) React
2 9 (6.21%) REST
3 7 (4.83%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.83%) Entity Framework
4 6 (4.14%) CSS
4 6 (4.14%) PySpark
5 5 (3.45%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.45%) RESTful
5 5 (3.45%) SOAP
6 4 (2.76%) Loki
6 4 (2.76%) OAuth
7 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.07%) Spring
8 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.38%) JSON
8 2 (1.38%) LINQ
8 2 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) Public Cloud
2 17 (11.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (10.34%) PKI
4 12 (8.28%) Cloud Native
4 12 (8.28%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.52%) Private Cloud
6 7 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.69%) Clustering
11 1 (0.69%) CMDB
11 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.62%) Linux
2 17 (11.72%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Debian
4 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.31%) DevOps
2 52 (35.86%) CI/CD
3 32 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (20.69%) Agile
5 27 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (16.55%) ITIL
7 23 (15.86%) Migration
8 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.41%) Zero Trust
9 16 (11.03%) Cloud Security
10 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (10.34%) DevSecOps
10 15 (10.34%) Microservices
10 15 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 14 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (8.97%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.28%) High Availability
13 12 (8.28%) Incident Response
13 12 (8.28%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.45%) SQL
2 23 (15.86%) Python
3 18 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.28%) C#
4 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.21%) Bash
6 9 (6.21%) Bicep
7 7 (4.83%) Go
8 6 (4.14%) Java
8 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (63.45%) Security Cleared
2 82 (56.55%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.52%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.34%) CCNP
4 15 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.21%) Azure Certification
6 9 (6.21%) MCSE
7 7 (4.83%) Degree
8 6 (4.14%) ISTQB
8 6 (4.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (3.45%) CCSE
9 5 (3.45%) CCSM
10 4 (2.76%) MCSA
10 4 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.07%) CCIE
12 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) NCSC
2 9 (6.21%) NIST
3 6 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.45%) GDPR
4 5 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (3.45%) SLA
5 4 (2.76%) GRC
6 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.69%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 24 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (13.79%) VMware NSX
3 14 (9.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.52%) Docker
5 7 (4.83%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (17.93%) Terraform
2 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.14%) Rancher
5 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) Grafana
5 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.76%) Istio
7 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.69%) CASB
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 44 (30.34%) VMware
3 23 (15.86%) Cisco
4 18 (12.41%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.28%) Citrix
6 10 (6.90%) Databricks
7 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.83%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.83%) F5
9 6 (4.14%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.38%) Cognos
11 2 (1.38%) Google
11 2 (1.38%) HP
11 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.69%) Arista
12 1 (0.69%) Dell
12 1 (0.69%) Juniper
12 1 (0.69%) Oracle
12 1 (0.69%) Zscaler