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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 18 21
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 10.80% 18.00% 9.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.03% 51.43% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 15
10th Percentile £231 £249 £350
25th Percentile £250 £253 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -7.22% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £638 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.02% -3.86%

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 87 35 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.80% 35.00% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 57
10th Percentile £200 £219 £139
25th Percentile £231 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -21.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £508 £500 £506
90th Percentile £619 £663 £620
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £21.94 £32.86 -
25th Percentile £24.37 £41.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.16 £46.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.34% +164.57% -34.16%
75th Percentile £29.29 - £18.75
90th Percentile £31.81 - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £27.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.77% -7.90% +39.02%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +3 8 £538 +49.31% 24
Kidlington - 6 £238 - 4
Abingdon - 1 £415 - 4
Banbury - 1 £525 - 4
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 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.93%) OneDrive
4 6 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.70%) Lucidchart
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) VPN
2 5 (18.52%) LAN
2 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Big Data
2 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Police
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) IT Support
2 5 (18.52%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Executive Assistant
4 1 (3.70%) IAM Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Rust Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Matplotlib
1 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.41%) Seaborn
1 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) LangChain
2 1 (3.70%) LangGraph
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) CMDB
2 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Customer Service
2 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) Analytics
3 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) AI
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.11%) Data Science
5 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (7.41%) Data Governance
6 2 (7.41%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (7.41%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (7.41%) Visualisation
6 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) R
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) C
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Databricks
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk