The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 40 73 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 17.09% 21.99% 24.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.78% 22.67% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 32
Average daily rate £325 £288 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -13.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £219 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £447 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 322 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 96.15% 96.99% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 182 81
Average daily rate £340 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 41 23
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Oxfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title.

1 30 (31.58%) C#
2 23 (24.21%) .NET
3 22 (23.16%) CSS
4 21 (22.11%) SQL
5 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (18.95%) SQL Server
7 16 (16.84%) ASP.NET
8 15 (15.79%) TDD
8 15 (15.79%) jQuery
8 15 (15.79%) HTML5
9 13 (13.68%) CMS
9 13 (13.68%) PHP
9 13 (13.68%) HTML
10 12 (12.63%) XML
10 12 (12.63%) CSS3
11 11 (11.58%) Ajax
12 10 (10.53%) MySQL
12 10 (10.53%) Oracle
12 10 (10.53%) OO
12 10 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (10.53%) Scrum
13 9 (9.474%) MVC
13 9 (9.474%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (9.474%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (9.474%) SQL Server 2008
14 8 (8.421%) Windows
15 7 (7.368%) Cognos
15 7 (7.368%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (7.368%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (7.368%) Finance

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (24.21%) .NET
2 22 (23.16%) CSS
3 16 (16.84%) ASP.NET
4 15 (15.79%) jQuery
4 15 (15.79%) HTML5
5 13 (13.68%) HTML
6 12 (12.63%) XML
6 12 (12.63%) CSS3
7 11 (11.58%) Ajax
8 5 (5.263%) XHTML
9 4 (4.211%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.211%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 4 (4.211%) Visualforce
9 4 (4.211%) Spring
9 4 (4.211%) Web Services
10 3 (3.158%) JSP
10 3 (3.158%) WinForms
10 3 (3.158%) LAMP
10 3 (3.158%) WPF
10 3 (3.158%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 13 (13.68%) CMS
2 7 (7.368%) Drupal
3 4 (4.211%) Documentum
4 3 (3.158%) TeamSite
4 3 (3.158%) Alfresco
5 2 (2.105%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (2.105%) Umbraco
5 2 (2.105%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (2.105%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (2.105%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.105%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.105%) Apache
6 1 (1.053%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.053%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.053%) Windows Azure
6 1 (1.053%) Force.com
6 1 (1.053%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.053%) EPiServer CMS
6 1 (1.053%) MODX
Applications
1 3 (3.158%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (6.316%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (6.316%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.263%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 4 (4.211%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (1.053%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.105%) Firewall
2 1 (1.053%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.053%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.53%) MySQL
3 9 (9.474%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (9.474%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (9.474%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (7.368%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.368%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.263%) Star Schema
5 5 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.105%) QlikView
6 2 (2.105%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.105%) Ingres
6 2 (2.105%) OLAP
7 1 (1.053%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.053%) MS Access
7 1 (1.053%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (1.053%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.053%) Redis
7 1 (1.053%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (1.053%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 6 (6.316%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (4.211%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.105%) MSI
3 2 (2.105%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.053%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.053%) Subversion
4 1 (1.053%) Xcode
4 1 (1.053%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.053%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (7.368%) Finance
2 5 (5.263%) Marketing
3 3 (3.158%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.053%) Banking
4 1 (1.053%) German Language
4 1 (1.053%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.316%) Mathematics
2 5 (5.263%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.158%) Open Source
3 3 (3.158%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.158%) Pharmacovigilance
4 2 (2.105%) SaaS
4 2 (2.105%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.053%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.053%) iPad
5 1 (1.053%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.053%) New Media
5 1 (1.053%) Wiki
5 1 (1.053%) Blog
5 1 (1.053%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.421%) Windows
2 3 (3.158%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.158%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (2.105%) Android
3 2 (2.105%) Linux
4 1 (1.053%) AIX
4 1 (1.053%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.79%) TDD
2 10 (10.53%) OO
2 10 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (10.53%) Scrum
3 9 (9.474%) MVC
4 6 (6.316%) Unit Testing
5 5 (5.263%) Web Development
5 5 (5.263%) Migration
6 4 (4.211%) Integration Testing
6 4 (4.211%) Content Management
6 4 (4.211%) E-Commerce
6 4 (4.211%) ETL
7 3 (3.158%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (3.158%) HOOD
7 3 (3.158%) Workflow
8 2 (2.105%) Problem Management
8 2 (2.105%) MVVM
8 2 (2.105%) Test Automation
8 2 (2.105%) Web Design
8 2 (2.105%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) C#
2 21 (22.11%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.68%) PHP
5 6 (6.316%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.316%) Java
5 6 (6.316%) C++
6 4 (4.211%) Apex Code
6 4 (4.211%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.158%) PHP5
8 2 (2.105%) PHP4
8 2 (2.105%) Ruby
8 2 (2.105%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.105%) Python
8 2 (2.105%) Perl
8 2 (2.105%) VB
9 1 (1.053%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.053%) VBA
9 1 (1.053%) VBScript
9 1 (1.053%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (2.105%) Degree
2 1 (1.053%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.105%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Oracle
2 7 (7.368%) Cognos
3 5 (5.263%) Informatica
3 5 (5.263%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.211%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (3.158%) Interwoven
5 3 (3.158%) Sencha
6 2 (2.105%) IBM
6 2 (2.105%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.053%) SAP
7 1 (1.053%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.053%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.053%) EPiServer
Oxford, Oxfordshire
The client is currently developing with HTML 5 and CSS 3... The Front End Developer should also have experience integrating with 3rd party APIs (like Google Maps, Twitter,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £280 - £320 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013