The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank 33 36 26
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.304% 1.170% 0.625%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.895% 7.143% 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
38 56 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 16.52% 16.37% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 7
Average daily rate £400 £325 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +71.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £224 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £25.03 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.74% +78.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Digital Media
Oxfordshire

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media.

1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) SQLite
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Alfresco
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) iPhone
4 1 (20.00%) JSP
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
4 1 (20.00%) Interwoven
4 1 (20.00%) TeamSite
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Publishing
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Games
4 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (20.00%) iPad
4 1 (20.00%) Sencha

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (20.00%) TeamSite
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
1 1 (20.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Interwoven
1 1 (20.00%) Sencha