Service Delivery Contracts in Oxfordshire

Service Delivery
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 19 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 9 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.57% 3.48% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 4.30% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £248 £207 £202
25th Percentile £253 £250 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £275 £250
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £313 £288
90th Percentile - £388 £395
South East median daily rate £450 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.05
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate - - £24.50
75th Percentile - - £27.13
90th Percentile - - £27.35
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £18.35 £32.25
% change year-on-year +30.79% -43.10% -4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Service Delivery 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 91 186 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.67% 80.87% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £259
25th Percentile £353 £263 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £464
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.36% +3.06%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £555
90th Percentile £696 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 39 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.30 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.23 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £32.75 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £65.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Oxfordshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Oxfordshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Oxfordshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Oxfordshire

Service Delivery
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 Service Delivery within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Oxford +2 4 £275 -26.67% 5
Kidlington +3 3 £450 +63.64% 1
Banbury - 1 £250 -
Service Delivery
South East

Service Delivery
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 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Automotive
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) AS400
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 1 (11.11%) iSeries
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Application Rationalisation
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Information Management
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Infor
3 1 (11.11%) Liquidlogic