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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 11.56% 6.43% 8.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.26% 23.08% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 12
10th Percentile £279 £320 £360
25th Percentile £400 £394 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.88% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £650
90th Percentile £590 £601 -
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 62 39 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.84% 27.86% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 45
10th Percentile £222 £325 £174
25th Percentile £263 £406 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £32.30
25th Percentile - £22.50 £32.31
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - -22.65% +90.12%
75th Percentile - £27.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +32.72%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 7 £513 +36.67% 42
Banbury - 4 - - 12
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 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
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 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
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 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
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 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
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%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.00%) OpenID
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
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%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (40.00%) SIEM
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Business Case
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (30.00%) Bash
4 4 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (15.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) C
7 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) HND
3 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) SLA
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Sophos
4 1 (5.00%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) VMware