Azure Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 13.99% 7.27% 10.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.48% 26.09% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 12
10th Percentile £250 £341 £451
25th Percentile £263 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £465 £569
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -18.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £650
90th Percentile £590 £610 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £583
% change year-on-year -4.76% -9.87% +10.95%

All Cloud Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 58 46 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 40.56% 27.88% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 50
10th Percentile £222 £325 £175
25th Percentile £250 £406 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £653
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £16.65 -
25th Percentile - £17.63 £32.30
Median hourly rate - £20.50 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year - -36.55% +90.06%
75th Percentile - £24.63 £32.32
90th Percentile - £26.35 -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -53.53% +48.62% +30.63%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Oxfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Oxfordshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Azure

Azure
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 within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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 0 7 £463 +23.33% 14
Banbury - 4 - - 7
Abingdon - 1 - - 5
Wantage - 1 £275 -
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
1 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Prefect
5 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Internet
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) MPLS
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Skype
3 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) GIS
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Celery
1 1 (5.00%) Django
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Next.js
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) Smart Meter
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) SIEM
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (15.00%) Presales
7 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) MCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) SLA
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
3 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) SCCM
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Sophos
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) F5