Service Management Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Service Management
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Service Management 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.67% 3.01% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.81% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £455 £243
25th Percentile - £463 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -55.79% +11.76% +91.01%
75th Percentile - £488 £556
90th Percentile - £495 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
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 £77.00 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.12%

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 160 105 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 85.56% 78.95% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 125
10th Percentile £196 £211 £173
25th Percentile £267 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £588
90th Percentile £619 £638 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 17
10th Percentile £15.67 £15.99 £21.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.99 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% -0.04% +29.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £86.98 £59.50 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +21.84%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Service Management job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Service Management

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 December 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 -1 4 £210 -58.00%
Service Management
South East

Service Management
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Time Management
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) A+ Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) HP