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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 2 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 68 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 14.98% 23.69% 8.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.53% 54.84% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 39
10th Percentile £309 £350 £323
25th Percentile £325 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -12.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £531 £530 £625
90th Percentile £569 £595 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £480 £563
% change year-on-year -11.46% -14.67% +2.27%

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 85 124 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 34.41% 43.21% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 91 127
10th Percentile £199 £350 £229
25th Percentile £325 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -8.19% -
75th Percentile £525 £544 £625
90th Percentile £619 £588 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £480 £538
% change year-on-year -11.46% -10.70% -0.46%
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

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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 25 September 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 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 3 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (10.81%) ChatGPT
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) dbt
5 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.41%) Fivetran
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
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 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) MySQL
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.41%) MS Access
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (2.70%) OLAP
6 1 (2.70%) Power BI
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) GitLab
4 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) QARun
4 2 (5.41%) WinRunner
5 1 (2.70%) MSTest
5 1 (2.70%) NUnit
5 1 (2.70%) Selenium
5 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (51.35%) 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 8 (21.62%) Analyst
1 8 (21.62%) Test Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Data Scientist
3 4 (10.81%) Integration Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Integration Test Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Web 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%) RESTful
1 4 (10.81%) scikit-learn
1 4 (10.81%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (8.11%) Django
2 3 (8.11%) FastAPI
2 3 (8.11%) Flask
2 3 (8.11%) Middleware
2 3 (8.11%) Prophet
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) PySpark
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) REST
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%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) DevOps
2 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (32.43%) Migration
4 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.03%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.62%) Integration Testing
6 8 (21.62%) Logistics
6 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
6 8 (21.62%) System Integration Testing
6 8 (21.62%) Test Planning
6 8 (21.62%) Waterfall
7 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
8 6 (16.22%) Data Migration
8 6 (16.22%) Defect Management
8 6 (16.22%) SDLC
8 6 (16.22%) Validation
9 5 (13.51%) Scrum
9 5 (13.51%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) C#
2 9 (24.32%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) VB
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Citrix
3 3 (8.11%) Sage
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 2 (5.41%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) F5
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Isilon
5 1 (2.70%) NetApp
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Veeam