The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 38 47 20
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -27
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 11 11 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.546% 1.719% 7.883%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.691% 2.910% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 23
Average daily rate £399 £350 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.92% +21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £309 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 378 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.98% 59.06% 56.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 202 134
Average daily rate £350 £400 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 8
Average hourly rate £13.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
E-Commerce
South East

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire E-Commerce Daily Rate Histogram

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +9 10 £300 -4.76%
E-Commerce
South East

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce.

1 6 (22.22%) Project Management
1 6 (22.22%) Publishing
2 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 4 (14.81%) C#
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Use Case
3 4 (14.81%) Drupal
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) PHP5
4 3 (11.11%) MySQL
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) PHP
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 3 (11.11%) CRM
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (11.11%) OO
4 3 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
4 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (11.11%) LAMP
5 2 (7.407%) Back Office
5 2 (7.407%) MVC
5 2 (7.407%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
5 2 (7.407%) Siebel
5 2 (7.407%) CSS
5 2 (7.407%) Web Services

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.11%) LAMP
3 2 (7.407%) Ajax
3 2 (7.407%) CSS
3 2 (7.407%) Web Services
3 2 (7.407%) XML
3 2 (7.407%) jQuery
3 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (7.407%) HTML
4 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (3.704%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (3.704%) XSL
4 1 (3.704%) EDI
4 1 (3.704%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.704%) JSON
4 1 (3.704%) WCF
4 1 (3.704%) WSE
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Drupal
2 2 (7.407%) CMS
3 1 (3.704%) IIS
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
1 2 (7.407%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.704%) MS Project
2 1 (3.704%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MySQL
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Publishing
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 2 (7.407%) Billing
3 2 (7.407%) Back Office
4 1 (3.704%) Finance
4 1 (3.704%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Project Manager
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Web Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Marketing Assistant
4 2 (7.407%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Business Manager
4 2 (7.407%) QA Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (7.407%) C# Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) PHP Developer
4 2 (7.407%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.704%) Open Source
2 1 (3.704%) SaaS
2 1 (3.704%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.704%) Windows
1 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Project Management
2 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) Use Case
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) OO
4 3 (11.11%) CRM
5 2 (7.407%) MVC
5 2 (7.407%) Operations Management
5 2 (7.407%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (3.704%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Web Testing
6 1 (3.704%) System Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.704%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.704%) Web Application Development
6 1 (3.704%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.704%) User Stories
6 1 (3.704%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (3.704%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) PHP5
2 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) PHP
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.407%) Java
4 1 (3.704%) C
4 1 (3.704%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.704%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (3.704%) MCSE
2 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.704%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (7.407%) Oracle
2 2 (7.407%) Siebel
3 1 (3.704%) IBM
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.704%) HP
3 1 (3.704%) Hyperion
3 1 (3.704%) ATG
3 1 (3.704%) VMware