Oxford MFC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) skills within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MFC over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Derbyshire Dronfield East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe London Manchester North West Oldham Oxford Redhill Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands Wiltshire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	25
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.852 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£304
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
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	£37.88	£33.38
% change on same period last year	+13.49 %
Application Development Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	68	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	23	11
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£270
Average daily rate	£309	£301
% change on same period last year	+2.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.92	£18.64
Average hourly rate	£16.33	£19.60
% change on same period last year	-16.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.75	£20.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
MFC 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.

MFC
Demand Trend

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

MFC
Daily Rate Trend

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