Senior Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Senior
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Senior daily rate in Oxford is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 4.00% 7.14% 4.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 7.14% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £538 £485
25th Percentile £425 £556 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £475 £631 £575
90th Percentile - £643 £590
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 £625 £486
% change year-on-year -12.00% +28.53% +8.06%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 47 28 84
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 100.00% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 63
10th Percentile £210 £245 £150
25th Percentile £344 £475 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £525
90th Percentile £638 £678 £645
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £500 £375
% change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +92.31% -48.00%
75th Percentile £26.95 £37.00 £14.86
90th Percentile £28.03 £43.30 £20.74
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.09 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -39.74% +79.49% -25.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Senior job vacancy trend in Oxford

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Oxford

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Oxford

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet

Senior Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto