Signal Processing Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Signal Processing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Signal Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.52% - 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £850 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £718 £613 £550
% change year-on-year +17.14% +11.36% +122.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Signal Processing 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 292 122 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 75.26% 89.71% 77.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 73 128
10th Percentile £225 £180 £173
25th Percentile £323 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £500
90th Percentile £700 £688 £623
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 34
10th Percentile £13.93 £14.24 £11.80
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.85 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.78 £25.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% +29.74% -39.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.30 £29.75
90th Percentile £60.00 - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £47.78
% change year-on-year +127.08% -49.77% -4.44%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Signal Processing job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Signal Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Signal Processing

Signal Processing
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 Signal Processing within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Oxford - 2 £900 -
Signal Processing
South East

Signal Processing
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI