IT Support Contracts in Oxfordshire

IT Support
South East > Oxfordshire

The median IT Support daily rate in Oxfordshire is £450, 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 17 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an IT Support 13 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.33% - 6.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.97% - 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile - - £154
25th Percentile £425 - £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £198
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.18%
75th Percentile £475 - £200
90th Percentile - - £201
South East median daily rate £200 £190 £200
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £18.08
South East median hourly rate £14.54 £15.55 £18.08
% change year-on-year -6.47% -14.02% +20.53%

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%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Oxfordshire

IT Support
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Oxfordshire

IT Support
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Oxfordshire

IT Support
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 IT Support 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
Oxford - 7 - - 1
Kidlington - 5 £450 -
Abingdon - 1 - -
IT Support
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, IT Support 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 IT Support in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Service Delivery
2 8 (61.54%) ITIL
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) Degree
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (38.46%) Analytics
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
5 5 (38.46%) Change Control
5 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
5 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
5 5 (38.46%) Application Rationalisation
5 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (38.46%) Application Security
5 5 (38.46%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
5 5 (38.46%) SAP
5 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
5 5 (38.46%) Information Management
5 5 (38.46%) Automotive
5 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (38.46%) Release Management
5 5 (38.46%) Atlassian
6 3 (23.08%) Social Skills

IT Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (7.69%) IP Telephony
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) Skype
2 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Automotive
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Service Delivery
2 8 (61.54%) ITIL
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Application Rationalisation
4 5 (38.46%) Application Security
4 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
4 5 (38.46%) Change Control
4 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (38.46%) Information Management
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Release Management
4 5 (38.46%) Service Catalogue
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
1 1 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Atlassian
2 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
2 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
2 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) VMware