Azure Contract Job Trends in Oldham

Microsoft Azure
Manchester > Oldham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oldham requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Oldham 71.43% 100.00% 55.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 83.33% 100.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £331 £133
25th Percentile £213 £359 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +23.08% -18.75%
75th Percentile £238 £425 £338
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £475 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.63% -8.10%

All Cloud Skills
Oldham

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 Oldham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oldham 85.71% 100.00% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £331 £129
25th Percentile £213 £359 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £295
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +35.59% +40.48%
75th Percentile £238 £425 £338
90th Percentile - - £341
Manchester median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% -4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oldham.

Azure job vacancy trend in Oldham

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Oldham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oldham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) Datadog
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (80.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft