ITIL Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 15 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing ITIL 16 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.11% 4.29% 9.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 5.88% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 18
10th Percentile £403 - £200
25th Percentile £425 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +65.61%
75th Percentile £475 £463 £551
90th Percentile - £485 £684
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £443
% change year-on-year -3.50% +12.97% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +74.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

ITIL 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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 119 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.81% 73.01% 87.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 83 141
10th Percentile £179 £174 £200
25th Percentile £250 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.55%
75th Percentile £550 £506 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 19
10th Percentile £20.86 £11.59 £25.76
25th Percentile - £12.08 £25.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +57.19% -50.46% +72.59%
75th Percentile £83.00 £26.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £54.00 £50.75
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Oxfordshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Oxfordshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract 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 ITIL within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kidlington +2 6 £450 -10.00% 4
Oxford - 4 - - 4
Abingdon - 1 - -
Henley-on-Thames - 1 £325 -
ITIL
South East

ITIL
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 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 5 (31.25%) Wireless
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) MPLS
4 1 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Skype
4 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Automotive
3 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Police
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) IT Support
2 5 (31.25%) Applications Support
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Service Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.25%) iPad
1 1 (6.25%) iPhone
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Mac OS
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Service Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Application Rationalisation
3 5 (31.25%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
4 4 (25.00%) Time Management
5 3 (18.75%) Business Case
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 2 (12.50%) User Experience
7 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.25%) Information Governance
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (6.25%) Investment Management
7 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.25%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) A+ Certification
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (6.25%) MCP
5 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) ServiceNow
3 5 (31.25%) Atlassian
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 5 (31.25%) Salesforce
3 5 (31.25%) SAP
4 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) VMware