Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for XQuery skills within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XQuery over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkXQuery
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank--
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads00
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.000 %0.000 %
As % of the category below0.000 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate-£395
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads9770
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.153 %0.075 %
Daily rates quoted3013
Average minimum daily rate£283£269
Average daily rate£305£296
% change on same period last year+3.07 %
Average maximum daily rate£327£322
UK excluding London average daily rate£317£332
% change on same period last year-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted78
Average minimum hourly rate£24.23£28.82
Average hourly rate£25.85£30.59
% change on same period last year-15.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.46£32.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.21£32.89
% change on same period last year-5.10 %
XQuery OxfordshireXQuery
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.

XQuery
Demand Trend

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

Oxford XQuery Demand Trend

XQuery
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

13 (100.00 %)C#
13 (100.00 %)PHP
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)MySQL
13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)OO
13 (100.00 %)Apache
13 (100.00 %)E-Commerce
13 (100.00 %)Eclipse
13 (100.00 %)PostgreSQL
13 (100.00 %)AJAX
13 (100.00 %)XPath
13 (100.00 %)Symfony
13 (100.00 %)Zend
13 (100.00 %)PHP5
13 (100.00 %)PHP4
13 (100.00 %)jQuery

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)AJAX
13 (100.00 %)Symfony
13 (100.00 %)jQuery
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (100.00 %)Apache
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (100.00 %)MySQL
13 (100.00 %)PostgreSQL
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (100.00 %)Eclipse
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13 (100.00 %)Developer
22 (66.67 %)PHP Developer
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (100.00 %)OO
13 (100.00 %)E-Commerce
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (100.00 %)C#
13 (100.00 %)PHP
13 (100.00 %)XPath
13 (100.00 %)PHP5
13 (100.00 %)PHP4
Oxford IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (100.00 %)Zend