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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 18 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 11.61% 7.59% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.58% 25.58% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 12
10th Percentile £264 £320 £451
25th Percentile £398 £394 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -20.88% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £650
90th Percentile £595 £601 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

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 57 43 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 36.77% 29.66% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 47
10th Percentile £222 £325 £176
25th Percentile £259 £372 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £613
90th Percentile £603 £650 £660
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +4.32%
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 £17.47 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -63.23% +98.33% +14.81%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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% 20
Banbury - 4 - - 8
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 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
1 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) GCP
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Prefect
5 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) GIS
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Redis
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
3 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Celery
1 1 (5.56%) Django
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) Next.js
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (16.67%) Smart Meter
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 7 (38.89%) SIEM
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
7 3 (16.67%) BPMN
7 3 (16.67%) High Availability
7 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (16.67%) Presales
7 3 (16.67%) System Testing
7 3 (16.67%) UML
7 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) C
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) HIPAA
1 4 (22.22%) SOC 2
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Sophos
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) VMware