Oxford E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	32
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	4.969 %	3.571 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£260
Average daily rate	£375	£290
% change on same period last year	+29.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+60.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.86	£34.47
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	161	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.215 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	61	29
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£326
Average daily rate	£372	£350
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.02	£24.86
Average hourly rate	£23.39	£27.72
% change on same period last year	-15.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.76	£30.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
E-Commerce Oxfordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce.

1 9 (81.82 %) C# 1 9 (81.82 %) .NET 1 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 2 7 (63.64 %) XML 2 7 (63.64 %) OO 3 6 (54.55 %) SQL Server 4 4 (36.36 %) SQL 4 4 (36.36 %) Intranet 4 4 (36.36 %) Internet 5 3 (27.27 %) UML 5 3 (27.27 %) PostgreSQL 5 3 (27.27 %) VB6 5 3 (27.27 %) AJAX 5 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (27.27 %) XPath

5 3 (27.27 %) Symfony 5 3 (27.27 %) Zend 5 3 (27.27 %) PHP5 5 3 (27.27 %) PHP4 5 3 (27.27 %) jQuery 5 3 (27.27 %) VB 5 3 (27.27 %) MySQL 5 3 (27.27 %) XSLT 5 3 (27.27 %) PHP 5 3 (27.27 %) ASP 5 3 (27.27 %) Apache 5 3 (27.27 %) RUP 5 3 (27.27 %) Eclipse 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 5 3 (27.27 %) XQuery

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 1 9 (81.82 %) .NET 2 7 (63.64 %) XML 3 3 (27.27 %) XSLT 3 3 (27.27 %) ASP 3 3 (27.27 %) AJAX 3 3 (27.27 %) Symfony 3 3 (27.27 %) jQuery 4 2 (18.18 %) COM 4 2 (18.18 %) DCOM 5 1 (9.091 %) WebServices 5 1 (9.091 %) Middleware 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (9.091 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) Apache 2 2 (18.18 %) MTS 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 3 1 (9.091 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (36.36 %) Intranet 1 4 (36.36 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (54.55 %) SQL Server 2 3 (27.27 %) PostgreSQL 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (27.27 %) MySQL 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) Eclipse 2 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (9.091 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Education
Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) C# Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) PHP Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Senior Software Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) C# Web Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Web Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Lead Software Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Web Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Web Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Lead Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server 1 1 (9.091 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (63.64 %) OO 2 3 (27.27 %) RUP 2 3 (27.27 %) UML 3 2 (18.18 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Quality Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) C# 2 4 (36.36 %) SQL 3 3 (27.27 %) VB 3 3 (27.27 %) XQuery 3 3 (27.27 %) VB6 3 3 (27.27 %) XPath 3 3 (27.27 %) PHP5 3 3 (27.27 %) PHP4 3 3 (27.27 %) PHP	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 1 3 (27.27 %) Zend 2 1 (9.091 %) Intel