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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 56 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 13.33% 12.26% 9.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.48% 33.33% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 14
10th Percentile £231 - £319
25th Percentile £250 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £360 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -20.00% -26.53%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £484
90th Percentile £638 £563 £591
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.75 £32.14 £51.50
% change year-on-year +160.62% -37.60% -26.43%

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 135 57 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 32.14% 36.77% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 49
10th Percentile £200 £222 £233
25th Percentile £231 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £500
90th Percentile £630 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £504 £500 £509
% change year-on-year +0.70% -1.77% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 2
10th Percentile £12.78 £32.86 £16.65
25th Percentile £25.72 £41.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £33.50 £46.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +125.85% -36.53%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £24.63
90th Percentile £77.50 - £26.35
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £27.50
% change year-on-year +271.94% -31.56% +1.85%

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 22 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 22 July 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 +6 14 £525 +31.25% 21
Kidlington - 13 £238 - 3
Abingdon -8 9 £425 - 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 7 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 43 (76.79%) Entra ID
2 24 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (16.07%) OneDrive
4 8 (14.29%) SaaS
5 7 (12.50%) IaaS
6 6 (10.71%) PaaS
7 5 (8.93%) AWS
7 5 (8.93%) GCP
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Google Workspace
8 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Table
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) VPN
2 6 (10.71%) LAN
2 6 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.57%) Connectrix
3 2 (3.57%) DHCP
3 2 (3.57%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.57%) SAN
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (35.71%) Public Sector
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Military
5 3 (5.36%) Police
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Finance
7 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) IAM Specialist
2 10 (17.86%) Security Specialist
3 9 (16.07%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 8 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) IT Support
5 7 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Identity Management Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Identity Management Specialist
8 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Consultant
9 2 (3.57%) Data Scientist
9 2 (3.57%) Developer
9 2 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) SailPoint
2 14 (25.00%) OAuth
2 14 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 14 (25.00%) OpenID
2 14 (25.00%) SAML
3 13 (23.21%) Web Services
4 12 (21.43%) LDAP
5 2 (3.57%) JSON
5 2 (3.57%) Matplotlib
5 2 (3.57%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.57%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) Seaborn
5 2 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.79%) Kafka
6 1 (1.79%) LangChain
6 1 (1.79%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Operational Technology
2 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.93%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (8.93%) SCADA
4 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) CMDB
5 2 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.57%) Replication
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
2 7 (12.50%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) RBAC
2 20 (35.71%) ITSM
3 19 (33.93%) Runbook
4 18 (32.14%) Change Control
5 15 (26.79%) Analytics
6 14 (25.00%) API Integration
6 14 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 13 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (23.21%) Information Security
8 12 (21.43%) Attestation
8 12 (21.43%) Risk Analytics
9 11 (19.64%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (17.86%) Remediation Plan
10 10 (17.86%) Risk Register
10 10 (17.86%) SIEM
11 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
11 9 (16.07%) Customer Service
11 9 (16.07%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (16.07%) OWASP
11 9 (16.07%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) PowerShell
2 18 (32.14%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) R
4 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) Bicep
5 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) Degree
2 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (10.71%) CESG Certified Professional
4 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (10.71%) CISM
4 6 (10.71%) CISSP
4 6 (10.71%) CRISC
4 6 (10.71%) GIAC
5 5 (8.93%) SANS
6 4 (7.14%) GSEC
6 4 (7.14%) SSCP
7 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.79%) CCSP
9 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (42.86%) NIST
2 10 (17.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (16.07%) ISO 31000
4 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.57%) NCSC
6 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (60.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.79%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (7.14%) Terraform
4 3 (5.36%) SCCM
5 2 (3.57%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 44 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Veeam
3 3 (5.36%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks