The first table below looks at the demand for Workflow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Workflow over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Workflow
Rank 28 31 26
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing Workflow 7 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 3.017% 2.083% 0.599%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.403% 3.608% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Average daily rate £400 £471 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.11% +34.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £16.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+42.42% -8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
159 194 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 68.53% 57.74% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 122 39
Average daily rate £350 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Workflow
Oxfordshire

Workflow
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Workflow across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Oxford Workflow Jobs Demand Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Workflow Daily Rate Trend

Workflow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Workflow 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 Workflow.

1 5 (50.00%) SAP
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) QA
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Publishing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) E-Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) BPR
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) XSL
4 2 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
4 2 (20.00%) Ajax

Workflow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Workflow 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 Workflow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XSL
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Ajax
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (10.00%) SAP CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Agile .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Agile C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) E-Learning
1 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) BPR
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (10.00%) Usability Testing
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) HP