Consultant Contracts in Oxfordshire

Consultant
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Oxfordshire is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Consultant 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.21% 2.19% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 2.47% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £457 - £494
25th Percentile £477 £425 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -26.53% +11.36%
75th Percentile £602 £481 £688
90th Percentile £616 £485 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £518
% change year-on-year -8.33% +15.74% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
South East median hourly rate £86.50 £61.60 £62.34
% change year-on-year +40.42% -1.18% -26.66%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 145 162 219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 88.52% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 103 146
10th Percentile £178 £173 £180
25th Percentile £250 £259 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £550 £506 £600
90th Percentile £680 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 22
10th Percentile £23.00 £12.18 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.15 £16.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £36.40 £20.50 £27.08
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% -24.30% +57.35%
75th Percentile £78.88 £30.50 £32.32
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Oxfordshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Oxfordshire

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Consultant
DemandTrendContract 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 Consultant within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Banbury - 1 - -
Consultant
South East

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxfordshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Cash Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk