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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing ITIL 5 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.71% 10.58% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 12.09% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 18
10th Percentile - £249 £150
25th Percentile £150 - £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -9.09% -43.59%
75th Percentile - £475 £438
90th Percentile - - £538
South East median daily rate £490 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +5.95% -5.13% +7.14%

All Process & 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 234 91 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 79.86% 87.50% 80.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 54 116
10th Percentile £203 £250 £150
25th Percentile £320 £353 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -6.34%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £506
90th Percentile £638 £696 £600
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 9 38
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £18.79 £20.85 £13.12
Median hourly rate £26.44 £27.76 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +42.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £51.27 £46.30 £29.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £46.54 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

ITIL job vacancy trend 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 4 May 2026.

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 4 May 2026. 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 -6 2 £150 -66.67%
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Server Management
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft