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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 45 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 15.31% 17.76% 10.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.69% 48.72% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 15
10th Percentile £231 £250 £370
25th Percentile £250 £250 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £380 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -18.28% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £623 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £52.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +70.62% +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 103 39 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.03% 36.45% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 51
10th Percentile £203 £236 £134
25th Percentile £231 £250 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £331 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.30% -26.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £503
90th Percentile £575 £691 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £32.86 £16.05
25th Percentile £16.55 £41.50 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.88 £46.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.78% +164.57% -37.86%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +84.21% +22.77% +0.93%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +4 14 £525 +38.16% 19
Abingdon -4 7 £420 - 7
Kidlington - 6 £238 - 1
Banbury - 1 £525 - 3
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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.22%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) Entra ID
2 18 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) OneDrive
4 6 (13.33%) IaaS
4 6 (13.33%) PaaS
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.89%) SaaS
7 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) VPN
2 5 (11.11%) LAN
2 5 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.44%) Connectrix
3 2 (4.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.44%) Tableau
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.22%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Police
6 2 (4.44%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Finance
7 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 8 (17.78%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 6 (13.33%) IAM Specialist
3 6 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) IT Support
4 5 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Identity Management Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.44%) Identity Management Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) SailPoint
1 8 (17.78%) Web Services
2 7 (15.56%) OAuth
2 7 (15.56%) OAuth2
2 7 (15.56%) OpenID
2 7 (15.56%) SAML
3 6 (13.33%) LDAP
4 2 (4.44%) Matplotlib
4 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.44%) Seaborn
4 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) LangChain
5 1 (2.22%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Operational Technology
2 5 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.11%) SCADA
3 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) CMDB
3 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Unix
4 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) RBAC
2 13 (28.89%) Change Control
2 13 (28.89%) ITSM
3 12 (26.67%) Analytics
4 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 10 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 9 (20.00%) Information Security
6 9 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
6 9 (20.00%) Risk Register
6 9 (20.00%) Runbook
6 9 (20.00%) SIEM
7 8 (17.78%) OWASP
7 8 (17.78%) Security Architecture
8 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
8 7 (15.56%) Risk Analytics
8 7 (15.56%) Risk Assessment
8 7 (15.56%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) R
4 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.22%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) Degree
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (13.33%) CESG Certified Professional
4 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (13.33%) CISM
4 6 (13.33%) CISSP
4 6 (13.33%) CRISC
4 6 (13.33%) GIAC
5 5 (11.11%) SANS
6 4 (8.89%) GSEC
6 4 (8.89%) SSCP
7 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.22%) CCSP
8 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (37.78%) NIST
2 10 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (17.78%) ISO 31000
4 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
5 2 (4.44%) NCSC
6 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) SCCM
3 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.44%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (64.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Databricks
2 2 (4.44%) Dell
2 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Veeam
3 1 (2.22%) Google