Azure Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 23 37 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.09% 15.10% 14.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.08% 43.02% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 36
10th Percentile £370 £300 £185
25th Percentile £419 £316 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -22.73% +18.85%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £575
90th Percentile £653 £638 £800
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £44.25 £67.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -34.44% +33.66% +90.57%

All Cloud Skills
Oxfordshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 74 86 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 32.46% 35.10% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 91
10th Percentile £136 £213 £180
25th Percentile £358 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £506 £538 £575
90th Percentile £595 £625 £631
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £16.05 £22.20 £11.63
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £28.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% +60.91% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £32.30 £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
% change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -2.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Oxfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Oxfordshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Oxfordshire

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 25 April 2024. 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 12 £469 +17.19% 10
Banbury - 2 £525 - 4
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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sage X3
1 2 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
4 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
1 4 (17.39%) WAN
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) LAN
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Spinnaker
2 1 (4.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Police
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Junior
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Tester
4 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) EDI
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) CCTV
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Android
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Agile
2 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 3 (13.04%) Project Management
3 3 (13.04%) Scrum
3 3 (13.04%) Server Management
3 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (8.70%) Coaching
4 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
4 2 (8.70%) People Management
4 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) SCCM
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) PaperCut
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Google
5 2 (8.70%) Aruba
5 2 (8.70%) HP
5 2 (8.70%) Meraki
5 2 (8.70%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) Sage
5 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 2 (8.70%) Veeam
5 2 (8.70%) WatchGuard
6 1 (4.35%) Blue Prism
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow