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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 22 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 13.50% 9.89% 9.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.60% 33.33% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile £366 £219 £363
25th Percentile £409 £303 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £588 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% +20.51% +10.80%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £538
90th Percentile £629 £744 £670
South East median daily rate £492 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -7.17% -3.64% +1.38%

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 57 27 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.97% 29.67% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 47
10th Percentile £220 £250 £134
25th Percentile £263 £320 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -6.94% +4.05%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £522
90th Percentile £675 £700 £620
South East median daily rate £490 £510 £516
% change year-on-year -3.89% -1.19% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £24.91
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.36%
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £31.16
% change year-on-year +27.59% -6.93% +41.64%

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 January 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 January 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 +1 7 £450 -35.71% 29
Banbury - 4 - - 3
Thame - 1 £425 -
Kidlington - 1 £225 - 2
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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GCP
3 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
7 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) LAN
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata
2 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Rust Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Rust Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LangChain
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.55%) OpenID
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.64%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) SIEM
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (22.73%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 3 (13.64%) BPMN
6 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.64%) Presales
6 3 (13.64%) System Testing
6 3 (13.64%) UML
6 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (22.73%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Rust
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) HND
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) HIPAA
1 4 (18.18%) SOC 2
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) NIST
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) VMware