Service Management Contracts in Oxfordshire

Service Management
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Management 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.83% 0.44% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 0.54% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £397 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £472 - £430
90th Percentile £489 - £465
South East median daily rate £463 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -19.57% +21.05% -6.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Service Management 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 92 185 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 80.79% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 116 145
10th Percentile £250 £150 £258
25th Percentile £353 £262 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £458
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.10% +1.67%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £550
90th Percentile £696 £600 £657
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% +127.27%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Oxfordshire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Oxfordshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Oxfordshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Oxfordshire

Service Management
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 Management within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 3 £438 - 3
Service Management
South East

Service Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Unix DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
1 1 (33.33%) iSeries
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Infor
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat