Oxford IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Strathclyde Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	28
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£300	£350
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£367
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.58	£23.68
% change on same period last year	+24.89 %
Vendors Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	140	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.102 %
Daily rates quoted	44	24
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£332
Average daily rate	£332	£350
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.56	£13.68
Average hourly rate	£22.78	£14.76
% change on same period last year	+54.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£15.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
IBM 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IBM across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 13 (56.52 %) DB2 1 13 (56.52 %) Crystal Reports 1 13 (56.52 %) Business Objects 1 13 (56.52 %) BusinessObjects 1 13 (56.52 %) Data Management 2 11 (47.83 %) WebSphere 3 9 (39.13 %) Government 3 9 (39.13 %) Local Government 3 9 (39.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (39.13 %) SQL 3 9 (39.13 %) Windows 3 9 (39.13 %) LAN 3 9 (39.13 %) WAN 4 8 (34.78 %) MS Excel 4 8 (34.78 %) Linux

4 8 (34.78 %) Migration 5 7 (30.43 %) Windows 2000 5 7 (30.43 %) LDAP 5 7 (30.43 %) Datawarehouse 5 7 (30.43 %) DB2 UDB 5 7 (30.43 %) Data Migration 6 6 (26.09 %) Resource Management 6 6 (26.09 %) Oracle 6 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server 6 6 (26.09 %) Tivoli 7 4 (17.39 %) WebSphere MQ 8 3 (13.04 %) Middleware 8 3 (13.04 %) Project Management 8 3 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server 8 3 (13.04 %) WPS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (47.83 %) WebSphere 2 3 (13.04 %) Servlets 2 3 (13.04 %) SOAP 2 3 (13.04 %) XML 2 3 (13.04 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 4 (17.39 %) WebSphere MQ 2 3 (13.04 %) WPS 2 3 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (13.04 %) ESB 3 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 8 (34.78 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (39.13 %) LAN 1 9 (39.13 %) WAN 2 7 (30.43 %) LDAP 3 3 (13.04 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (8.696 %) VPN 4 2 (8.696 %) DNS 4 2 (8.696 %) SAN 4 2 (8.696 %) ADSL 4 2 (8.696 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (56.52 %) DB2 1 13 (56.52 %) Crystal Reports 1 13 (56.52 %) BusinessObjects 2 7 (30.43 %) Datawarehouse 2 7 (30.43 %) DB2 UDB 3 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server 4 1 (4.348 %) DataStage 4 1 (4.348 %) EDRMS	Development Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) ClearCase 1 1 (4.348 %) RequisitePro
General 1 9 (39.13 %) Government 1 9 (39.13 %) Local Government 2 2 (8.696 %) Finance 3 1 (4.348 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 10 (43.48 %) Analyst 2 7 (30.43 %) Data Analyst 2 7 (30.43 %) Solutions Analyst 3 6 (26.09 %) Developer 4 3 (13.04 %) Project Manager 5 2 (8.696 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 2 (8.696 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (8.696 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (4.348 %) ICT Project Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (4.348 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (13.04 %) Computer Science 2 2 (8.696 %) Blackberry 2 2 (8.696 %) Clustering 3 1 (4.348 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 9 (39.13 %) Windows 1 9 (39.13 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8 (34.78 %) Linux 3 7 (30.43 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (4.348 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (56.52 %) Data Management 2 8 (34.78 %) Migration 3 7 (30.43 %) Data Migration 4 6 (26.09 %) Resource Management 5 3 (13.04 %) BPEL 5 3 (13.04 %) Project Management 5 3 (13.04 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (8.696 %) ITIL 7 1 (4.348 %) Document Management 7 1 (4.348 %) UML 7 1 (4.348 %) RUP 7 1 (4.348 %) BPR 7 1 (4.348 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (4.348 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 9 (39.13 %) SQL 2 3 (13.04 %) Java 3 2 (8.696 %) C 4 1 (4.348 %) Perl 4 1 (4.348 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 3 (13.04 %) Degree 2 2 (8.696 %) MCP 2 2 (8.696 %) MCSE 2 2 (8.696 %) MCSA 2 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 2 (8.696 %) Active Directory 1 2 (8.696 %) Terminal Services 1 2 (8.696 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 6 (26.09 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 13 (56.52 %) Business Objects 2 6 (26.09 %) Oracle 3 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft 3 2 (8.696 %) Citrix