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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 24 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.76% 13.54% 12.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.88% 35.63% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 32
10th Percentile £378 £300 £185
25th Percentile £425 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £506 £638 £800
90th Percentile £588 £650 £874
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +7.14%

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 73 87 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 29.67% 37.99% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 60 88
10th Percentile £143 £200 £177
25th Percentile £363 £300 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £502 £556 £575
90th Percentile £598 £639 £756
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Median hourly rate £16.00 £32.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.46% +61.50% -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 2024. 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 0 12 £469 +20.97% 18
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Stack
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Google Workspace
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
1 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Spinnaker
2 1 (4.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Automotive
2 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Junior
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Information Security
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (8.33%) Scrum
5 2 (8.33%) Server Management
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (4.17%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) C
3 1 (4.17%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Go
3 1 (4.17%) Groovy
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) SCCM
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) Meraki
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow