The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Foreign Exchange (FX)
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.222% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.587% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £288 £408
% change year-on-year
+47.82% -29.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
63 105 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 13.97% 16.88% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 50 23
Average daily rate £375 £308 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +11.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £215 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 7
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.75 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.04% +76.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.80 £16.69 £12.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £30.00 £23.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Foreign Exchange (FX)
South East

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Oxfordshire Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs Demand Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 - 1 £400 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
South East

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 Foreign Exchange (FX).

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Hedge funds

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#