Azure Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 16 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.90% 10.44% 11.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.21% 34.67% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 17
10th Percentile - £338 £338
25th Percentile £250 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £423 £506 £638
90th Percentile £500 £620 £670
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +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 43 75 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.68% 30.12% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 53
10th Percentile £206 £143 £200
25th Percentile £250 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £483 £506 £575
90th Percentile £575 £650 £648
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £32.86 - £23.93
25th Percentile £41.50 - £26.08
Median hourly rate £46.30 £16.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +189.38% -50.46% +61.50%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 June 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 -8 5 £355 -21.11% 22
Wantage - 1 £275 - 1
Abingdon - 1 - - 8
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 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) RS-232
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Skype
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) GIS
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Support
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) ICT Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Celery
1 1 (6.25%) Django
1 1 (6.25%) Next.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) FPGA
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (18.75%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
3 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Security
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded C
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) MCP
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Intel
3 1 (6.25%) Siemens
3 1 (6.25%) VMware