Azure Contracts in Oxford

Microsoft Azure
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 13.46% 11.65% 18.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.00% 37.50% 45.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
10th Percentile £269 £385 -
25th Percentile £353 £419 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% +17.19% -27.27%
75th Percentile £625 £552 £450
90th Percentile £700 £733 £523
Oxfordshire median daily rate £380 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -18.28% +3.33% -18.18%

All Cloud Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 32 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 38.46% 31.07% 40.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 33
10th Percentile £212 £360 £300
25th Percentile £328 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +21.88% -21.95%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £450
90th Percentile £699 £725 £590
Oxfordshire median daily rate £331 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -26.39% +12.50% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.05
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate £46.30 £16.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +189.38% -34.69% +22.50%
75th Percentile - - £27.13
90th Percentile - - £27.35
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £46.30 £17.50 £28.16
% change year-on-year +164.57% -37.86% +40.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Oxford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Oxford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Oxford over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Oxford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Oxford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded C
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
2 2 (28.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Intel
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens