Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 40 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 27.97% 12.12% 12.55%
As % of the Vendors category 51.95% 40.00% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 21
10th Percentile £160 £160 £120
25th Percentile £179 £170 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £200
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +100.00% -55.56%
75th Percentile £475 £481 £500
90th Percentile £520 £585 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £463 £452
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.44% +0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +460.19% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.60 £45.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -60.89% +157.14% +6.06%

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 77 50 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 53.85% 30.30% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 32 74
10th Percentile £162 £160 £177
25th Percentile £222 £353 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £475 £500 £600
90th Percentile £585 £649 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +3.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £43.85 £17.30 £18.08
25th Percentile £71.00 £19.25 £25.19
Median hourly rate £89.63 £25.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +258.52% -22.60% +90.00%
75th Percentile - £60.63 £32.32
90th Percentile - £80.50 £43.19
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +162.50%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 Microsoft within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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 0 15 £225 -40.00% 24
Kidlington +2 5 £450 -30.77% 3
Witney - 4 £160 - 5
Carterton - 4 £179 -
Abingdon - 2 - - 4
Banbury - 1 £200 - 8
Henley-on-Thames - 1 £325 -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
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 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.50%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Prefect
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) VPN
2 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.50%) Wireless
3 4 (10.00%) DHCP
3 4 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.50%) Internet
4 1 (2.50%) Intranet
4 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) MPLS
4 1 (2.50%) NAS
4 1 (2.50%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.50%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Skype
4 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) GIS
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Automotive
3 5 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Local Government
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
1 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Desktop Support
3 6 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
4 5 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 5 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Accountant
5 4 (10.00%) Deskside Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Deskside Support
5 4 (10.00%) Deskside Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Financial Accountant
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Accountant
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Systems Accountant
5 4 (10.00%) Systems Accountant
6 3 (7.50%) Build Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Desktop Build Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Celery
1 1 (2.50%) Django
1 1 (2.50%) Next.js
1 1 (2.50%) React
1 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.50%) Life Science
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) iPad
4 1 (2.50%) iPhone
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) ITIL
3 10 (25.00%) Data Management
4 9 (22.50%) Customer Service
5 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (17.50%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) Application Rationalisation
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) Project Management
6 5 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
6 5 (12.50%) Time Management
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.00%) ITSM
7 4 (10.00%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.00%) Service Management
7 4 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
1 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 4 (10.00%) CCAB
5 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
3 1 (2.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.50%) Cisco
2 7 (17.50%) SAP
3 5 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.00%) Sophos
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix
6 1 (2.50%) F5
6 1 (2.50%) VMware