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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 11.11% 7.20% 9.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.82% 26.47% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 14
10th Percentile £403 £357 £350
25th Percentile £425 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +5.13%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £589
90th Percentile £600 £700 £646
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 66 34 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.92% 27.20% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 48
10th Percentile £222 £325 £170
25th Percentile £263 £406 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.25% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £650
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £24.91
Median % change year-on-year - +0.36% +46.53%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend 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 8 December 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 8 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 0 9 £513 -26.79% 25
Banbury - 4 - - 3
Thame - 1 £425 -
Azure
South East

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Lucidchart
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
3 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Migration Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.76%) OpenID
1 1 (4.76%) SAML
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (14.29%) Smart Meter
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.76%) IoT
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Unix
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 8 (38.10%) SIEM
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 3 (14.29%) Business Case
7 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (14.29%) RBAC
7 3 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) HND
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (19.05%) HIPAA
2 4 (19.05%) SOC 2
3 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (14.29%) NIST
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Sophos
4 1 (4.76%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) VMware