Customer Service Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Customer Service
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 9.09% 6.06% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.64% 6.90% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £201 - -
25th Percentile £203 £206 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £213 £145
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +46.55% -6.03%
75th Percentile £208 £219 £153
90th Percentile £209 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £238 £169 £145
% change year-on-year +40.74% +16.38% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 -
Median hourly rate £16.71 £14.08 £15.48
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% -9.08% -
75th Percentile £17.79 £15.07 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £16.71 £14.08 £16.49
% change year-on-year +18.69% -14.65% -36.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

Customer Service falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 29 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 85.45% 87.88% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 55
10th Percentile £263 £241 £250
25th Percentile £381 £361 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £581 £525
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
Oxfordshire median daily rate £445 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -6.32% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £16.02 -
25th Percentile £15.62 £20.43 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £29.54 £14.24
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% +107.43% -43.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £39.39 £35.75
90th Percentile £26.36 £44.26 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.25 £36.38 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.34% +86.56% -25.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Oxford

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Customer Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Customer Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP