Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.53% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
South East median daily rate £447 £500 £610
% change year-on-year -10.60% -18.03% +7.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 73 32 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 38.62% 24.06% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 21
10th Percentile £181 £165 £139
25th Percentile £222 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £484 £638 £675
90th Percentile £575 £671 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 6
10th Percentile £17.31 £22.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.37 £20.27
Median hourly rate £22.13 £25.50 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% -24.26% +206.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.12 £45.31
90th Percentile £86.32 £27.35 £54.13
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford - 1 £750 - 6
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft