The first table below looks at the demand for AppFabric skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AppFabric over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Oxford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft AppFabric
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing AppFabric 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
34 97 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.38% 28.03% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 59 47
Average daily rate £323 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.38% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
AppFabric
Oxfordshire

AppFabric
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing AppFabric also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited AppFabric.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure

AppFabric
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing AppFabric also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited AppFabric. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#