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 15 November 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 46 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 25.99% 13.19% 13.02%
As % of the Vendors category 53.49% 41.30% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 17
10th Percentile £171 - £120
25th Percentile £197 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £272 £350 £401
Median % change year-on-year -22.43% -12.61% -5.76%
75th Percentile £480 £488 £575
90th Percentile £548 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £468 £465
% change year-on-year -3.90% +0.71% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 £23.50 -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +258.52% - -
75th Percentile - £26.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £56.75 £19.98
% change year-on-year -69.16% +184.08% +7.97%

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 86 46 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 48.59% 31.94% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 67
10th Percentile £175 £160 £180
25th Percentile £222 £347 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £510 £613 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £521 £513
% change year-on-year -4.08% +1.61% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £15.30 £22.70 £32.31
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.00 £32.32
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -22.65% +90.12%
75th Percentile £89.63 £47.50 £39.12
90th Percentile - £59.50 £51.35
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £51.42
% change year-on-year -64.75% +10.36% +104.49%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Microsoft job vacancy trend 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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -1 16 £225 +4.65% 30
Carterton - 6 £178 - 1
Bicester 0 4 £521 +225.47% 1
Kidlington -1 3 £450 -30.77% 2
Witney - 3 £160 - 2
Banbury - 3 £190 - 5
Henley-on-Thames - 1 £325 - 1
Thame - 1 £425 -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
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 1 (2.17%) nginx
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
3 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.70%) PowerApps
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Prefect
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.17%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) VPN
2 5 (10.87%) DHCP
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
3 4 (8.70%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.70%) Wireless
4 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) GIS
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Local Government
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Data Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) IT Support
6 4 (8.70%) Accountant
6 4 (8.70%) Financial Accountant
6 4 (8.70%) IT Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Accountant
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Systems Accountant
6 4 (8.70%) Systems Accountant
7 3 (6.52%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (6.52%) Build Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Desktop Build Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Desktop Support
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.35%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Celery
1 1 (2.17%) Django
1 1 (2.17%) Next.js
1 1 (2.17%) OAuth
1 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.17%) OpenID
1 1 (2.17%) React
1 1 (2.17%) REST
1 1 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Driving Licence
2 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Life Science
4 3 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) IoT
6 1 (2.17%) iPad
6 1 (2.17%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Customer Service
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Data Management
3 8 (17.39%) ITIL
4 7 (15.22%) Process Improvement
4 7 (15.22%) Project Management
5 6 (13.04%) Asset Management
5 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.87%) Time Management
7 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.70%) Change Management
7 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (8.70%) ITSM
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.70%) Service Management
7 4 (8.70%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) Degree
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.70%) A+ Certification
4 4 (8.70%) CCAB
5 3 (6.52%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) GDPR
2 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.52%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (6.52%) SCCM
4 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Cisco
1 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.87%) SAP
3 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
3 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.35%) Sophos
6 1 (2.17%) Ariba
6 1 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) Planon
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk