The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 16 7 21
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +14
Contract jobs citing Degree 17 43 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 7.944% 13.87% 2.841%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.52% 76.79% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 3
Average daily rate £375 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £518 £670
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
Average hourly rate - £24.38 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +74.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
All Qualifications
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
79 56 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 36.92% 18.06% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 19 14
Average daily rate £360 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £505 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.22% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Degree
Oxfordshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Oxford Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Oxford region.

Oxford Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 16 (38.10%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) UNIX
3 10 (23.81%) Project Management
4 9 (21.43%) BPR
4 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 9 (21.43%) Publishing
5 8 (19.05%) Linux
5 8 (19.05%) ITIL
6 7 (16.67%) DHCP
6 7 (16.67%) DNS
7 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 6 (14.29%) NetWare
7 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 6 (14.29%) VMware
7 6 (14.29%) Programme Management
7 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (11.90%) Performance Management
8 5 (11.90%) Cisco
8 5 (11.90%) Oracle
8 5 (11.90%) MS Office
9 4 (9.524%) WebLogic
9 4 (9.524%) Web Services
9 4 (9.524%) IBM
9 4 (9.524%) MS Excel
9 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
9 4 (9.524%) Windows XP
9 4 (9.524%) SOA
9 4 (9.524%) Middleware
9 4 (9.524%) Management Information System
9 4 (9.524%) Workflow

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.524%) Web Services
1 4 (9.524%) Middleware
1 4 (9.524%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.143%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.524%) WebLogic
1 4 (9.524%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.381%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Office
2 4 (9.524%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.381%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (16.67%) DHCP
2 7 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (7.143%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (7.143%) Firewall
4 2 (4.762%) VPN
5 1 (2.381%) LAN
5 1 (2.381%) WAN
5 1 (2.381%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (4.762%) GIS
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (2.381%) MarkLogic
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle 10g
General
1 9 (21.43%) Publishing
2 4 (9.524%) Finance
3 3 (7.143%) Local Government
4 2 (4.762%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Project Manager
2 6 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 6 (14.29%) Performance Manager
2 6 (14.29%) Performance Improvement Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (9.524%) Analyst
4 4 (9.524%) Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.762%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Digital Project Manager
6 2 (4.762%) IT Support
7 1 (2.381%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) IT Assistant
7 1 (2.381%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.762%) E-Learning
3 1 (2.381%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
3 1 (2.381%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) UNIX
3 8 (19.05%) Linux
4 6 (14.29%) NetWare
4 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (9.524%) Windows XP
6 3 (7.143%) Windows 7
6 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (4.762%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.381%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Project Management
2 9 (21.43%) BPR
3 8 (19.05%) ITIL
4 6 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 5 (11.90%) Performance Management
6 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
6 4 (9.524%) SOA
6 4 (9.524%) Workflow
6 4 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (9.524%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.524%) Use Case
6 4 (9.524%) Release Management
6 4 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.143%) Problem Management
7 3 (7.143%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (7.143%) PRINCE2
8 2 (4.762%) CRM
8 2 (4.762%) Service Management
8 2 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.143%) SQL
1 3 (7.143%) VB
2 1 (2.381%) Korn
2 1 (2.381%) C-shell
2 1 (2.381%) Bash shell
2 1 (2.381%) C
2 1 (2.381%) C++
2 1 (2.381%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (7.143%) CCNA
1 3 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.381%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.381%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (2.381%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.381%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.381%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.381%) MCP
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.381%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 3 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (7.143%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (14.29%) VMware
2 5 (11.90%) Cisco
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (9.524%) IBM
3 4 (9.524%) Altiris
4 2 (4.762%) SAP
4 2 (4.762%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.381%) Veritas
5 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.381%) HP
5 1 (2.381%) Reuters