Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.30% - 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile £488 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £563 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -1.60% -13.04% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 278 107 203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.25% 92.24% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 62 128
10th Percentile £225 £180 £132
25th Percentile £320 £250 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.87% -8.82% -2.86%
75th Percentile £566 £500 £500
90th Percentile £646 £654 £563
South East median daily rate £521 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 29
10th Percentile £13.45 £24.29 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.15 £13.46
Median hourly rate £21.90 £27.76 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +42.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £49.06 £46.30 £23.00
90th Percentile £54.88 £52.54 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £32.31 £50.00
% change year-on-year +54.75% -35.38% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Banbury - 1 £525 -
Azure Engineer
South East

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxfordshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft