Service Management Contracts in Oxford

Service Management
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Service Management 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 6.25% - 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% - 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £397 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £335
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.89%
75th Percentile £472 - £444
90th Percentile £489 - £470
Oxfordshire median daily rate £438 - £275
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

Service Management 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 45 87 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 93.75% 83.65% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 58 85
10th Percentile £206 £250 £300
25th Percentile £360 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £525 £550
90th Percentile £700 £575 £678
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 2
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.75 £22.05
25th Percentile £16.96 £13.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -14.29% +30.95%
75th Percentile £46.30 £39.13 £27.13
90th Percentile £46.78 £65.00 £27.35
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Oxford

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Oxford.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Oxford

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Oxford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Oxford

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Oxford.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Oxford

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Unix DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
1 1 (33.33%) iSeries
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Infor
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat