The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications for the Oxfordshire 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
Degree
Rank 20 8 26
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +18
Contract jobs citing Degree 31 76 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 6.874% 12.22% 4.741%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.81% 71.70% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 7
Average daily rate £200 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.39% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £234
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £450 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
- -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 4
Average hourly rate £9.94 £24.75 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-59.83% +76.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.56 £16.92 £11.81
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £30.00 £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.76%
All Qualifications
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
149 106 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 33.04% 17.04% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 30 53
Average daily rate £340 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £215 £172
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £24.75 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.39% +70.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £16.76 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Degree
South East

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Oxfordshire Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford -13 16 £300 -4.76%
Abingdon +1 2 - -
Banbury - 1 - -
Woodstock - 1 - -
Degree
South East

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (29.85%) Windows
2 19 (28.36%) Project Management
3 18 (26.87%) TCP/IP
4 16 (23.88%) ITIL
5 13 (19.40%) VMware
6 12 (17.91%) Publishing
6 12 (17.91%) UNIX
6 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (16.42%) DNS
7 11 (16.42%) DHCP
8 10 (14.93%) NetWare
8 10 (14.93%) SQL
9 9 (13.43%) PRINCE2
9 9 (13.43%) BPR
10 8 (11.94%) Cisco
10 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
10 8 (11.94%) HP
11 7 (10.45%) PRINCE
11 7 (10.45%) Linux
11 7 (10.45%) Firewall
11 7 (10.45%) Altiris
12 6 (8.955%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (8.955%) Programme Management
13 5 (7.463%) Management Information System
13 5 (7.463%) Workflow
13 5 (7.463%) Finance
13 5 (7.463%) Perl
13 5 (7.463%) MS Office
13 5 (7.463%) Windows XP
13 5 (7.463%) Performance Management

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (5.970%) HTML
2 3 (4.478%) XML
2 3 (4.478%) WSH
3 2 (2.985%) jQuery
3 2 (2.985%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.985%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (2.985%) CSS3
3 2 (2.985%) CGI
3 2 (2.985%) .NET
3 2 (2.985%) CSS
3 2 (2.985%) XHTML
4 1 (1.493%) Web Services
4 1 (1.493%) JSON
4 1 (1.493%) RESTful
4 1 (1.493%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (2.985%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.493%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (7.463%) MS Office
2 3 (4.478%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.478%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.478%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.493%) MS Project
3 1 (1.493%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.985%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.493%) Epicor iScala
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) TCP/IP
2 11 (16.42%) DNS
2 11 (16.42%) DHCP
3 7 (10.45%) Firewall
4 3 (4.478%) LAN
4 3 (4.478%) WAN
4 3 (4.478%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.985%) SMTP
5 2 (2.985%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.478%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.985%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (2.985%) MarkLogic
2 2 (2.985%) Ingres
2 2 (2.985%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (2.985%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.985%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.985%) GIS
3 1 (1.493%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.493%) Subversion
General
1 12 (17.91%) Publishing
2 5 (7.463%) Finance
3 3 (4.478%) Local Government
4 2 (2.985%) Multimedia
4 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.493%) Electronics
5 1 (1.493%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.493%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) Project Manager
2 9 (13.43%) Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) Administrator
4 6 (8.955%) Performance Manager
4 6 (8.955%) Performance Improvement Manager
4 6 (8.955%) Developer
5 5 (7.463%) Network Administrator
5 5 (7.463%) Service Manager
6 4 (5.970%) Portfolio Manager
7 3 (4.478%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.478%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.478%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.478%) Windows Administrator
8 2 (2.985%) Digital Project Manager
8 2 (2.985%) Business Manager
8 2 (2.985%) Senior Programmer
8 2 (2.985%) Graduate
8 2 (2.985%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.985%) Services Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.985%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.463%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.985%) Data Integration
2 2 (2.985%) Clustering
2 2 (2.985%) E-Learning
2 2 (2.985%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.493%) PMI
3 1 (1.493%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.493%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.493%) Wiki
3 1 (1.493%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.493%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.493%) FMCG
3 1 (1.493%) iPhone
3 1 (1.493%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Windows
2 12 (17.91%) UNIX
2 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (14.93%) NetWare
4 7 (10.45%) Linux
5 5 (7.463%) Windows XP
5 5 (7.463%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.478%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.985%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.985%) Solaris
8 1 (1.493%) Debian
8 1 (1.493%) AIX
8 1 (1.493%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) Project Management
2 16 (23.88%) ITIL
3 9 (13.43%) PRINCE2
3 9 (13.43%) BPR
4 7 (10.45%) PRINCE
5 6 (8.955%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (8.955%) Programme Management
6 5 (7.463%) Workflow
6 5 (7.463%) Performance Management
6 5 (7.463%) Portfolio Management
7 4 (5.970%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.970%) Use Case
7 4 (5.970%) Release Management
7 4 (5.970%) Web Development
7 4 (5.970%) Web Application Development
7 4 (5.970%) E-Commerce
8 3 (4.478%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.478%) Service Management
8 3 (4.478%) Migration
8 3 (4.478%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) SQL
2 5 (7.463%) Perl
2 5 (7.463%) Bash shell
3 4 (5.970%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.478%) VB
5 2 (2.985%) C-shell
5 2 (2.985%) Korn
5 2 (2.985%) Java
5 2 (2.985%) C
5 2 (2.985%) C#
5 2 (2.985%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.985%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.493%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.493%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (5.970%) CCNA
1 4 (5.970%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 4 (5.970%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.985%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (2.985%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (2.985%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.985%) ISEB
3 1 (1.493%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.970%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.985%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.478%) Tivoli
1 3 (4.478%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (4.478%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) VMware
2 8 (11.94%) Cisco
2 8 (11.94%) HP
3 7 (10.45%) Altiris
4 4 (5.970%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.985%) Veritas
5 2 (2.985%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.985%) Mapinfo
5 2 (2.985%) Oracle
5 2 (2.985%) SAP
6 1 (1.493%) Dell
6 1 (1.493%) Remedy
Oxfordshire, South East
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Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
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Rate: Competitive
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Fixed Recruitment
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