Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Service Delivery
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 5.48% 6.38% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 6.82% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £363 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £375
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £500 £288 £388
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £325 £275 £275
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

Service Delivery 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 60 44 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 82.19% 93.62% 84.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 57
10th Percentile £214 £204 £222
25th Percentile £386 £358 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -0.83%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £525
90th Percentile £624 £700 £585
Oxfordshire median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.55 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +114.29% -14.29%
75th Percentile £25.21 £46.30 £39.13
90th Percentile £30.33 £46.78 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £22.00 £27.76 £19.50
% change year-on-year -20.75% +42.36% -25.00%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Oxford

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Oxford over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Oxford

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Service Delivery
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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Information Management
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft