Oxford DataStage Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DataStage 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 DataStage over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Oxford region.

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Location Berkshire Bristol City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland South East South West UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	-	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford	-	-	-
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	-	-	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£350	£400
% change year-on-year	+7.140 % -12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	£40.99
All Database & Business Intelligence Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category	37	26	73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford	34.91 %	17.45 %	27.55 %
Daily rates quoted	10	10	15
Average daily rate	£300	£290	£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.440 % -10.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£206	£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£345	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£320	£350
% change year-on-year	-6.250 % -8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5	2
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.00	£21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-14.06 % +50.58 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£22.40	£25.25	£16.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.50	£32.00	£26.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.50	£27.50	£31.75
% change year-on-year	- -13.38 %
DataStage Oxfordshire

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.

DataStage
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DataStage across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DataStage across the Oxford region.