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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 36 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 12.59% 18.10% 10.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.00% 48.72% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £231 £250 £370
25th Percentile £250 £250 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £380 £465
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -18.28% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £630 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.25 £52.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +57.82% +37.01% -42.96%

All Cloud Computing 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 100 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.97% 37.14% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 28 52
10th Percentile £202 £236 £135
25th Percentile £231 £250 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £331 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.28% -26.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £506
90th Percentile £615 £691 £598
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £32.86 £16.05
25th Percentile £14.67 £41.50 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.16 £46.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.34% +164.57% -37.86%
75th Percentile £48.69 - £18.75
90th Percentile £53.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +66.67% +22.77% -5.24%

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 29 April 2026.

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 29 April 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
Oxford +5 13 £488 +28.29% 18
Kidlington - 6 £238 - 1
Abingdon -3 2 £415 - 5
Banbury - 1 £525 - 1
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 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) OneDrive
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) VPN
2 5 (13.89%) LAN
2 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.56%) Connectrix
3 2 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Big Data
2 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.56%) Tableau
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Police
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) IAM Specialist
2 6 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) IT Support
3 5 (13.89%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.56%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Identity Management Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Identity Management Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Rust Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) OAuth
1 8 (22.22%) OAuth2
1 8 (22.22%) OpenID
1 8 (22.22%) SAML
2 7 (19.44%) SailPoint
2 7 (19.44%) Web Services
3 6 (16.67%) LDAP
4 2 (5.56%) Matplotlib
4 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.56%) Seaborn
4 2 (5.56%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) LangChain
5 1 (2.78%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) CMDB
2 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Analytics
2 10 (27.78%) Customer Service
3 9 (25.00%) RBAC
4 8 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 8 (22.22%) Runbook
5 7 (19.44%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (19.44%) Information Security
6 6 (16.67%) Agile
6 6 (16.67%) API Integration
6 6 (16.67%) Attestation
6 6 (16.67%) Change Control
6 6 (16.67%) ITSM
6 6 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
7 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.89%) DevOps
8 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 3 (8.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) R
4 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (25.00%) NIST
2 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) SCCM
3 3 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Dell
2 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk