The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank - 50 40
Contract jobs citing IBM 0 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 1.125% 1.724%
As % of the Vendors category - 1.939% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
Average daily rate - £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £19.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+44.73% -36.66%
All Vendors
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
233 361 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 51.66% 58.04% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 175 105
Average daily rate £325 £413 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% +32.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £253 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 54 35
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +1.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £25.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
IBM
South East

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow Management
2 3 (50.00%) Ajax
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) XSL
2 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Compuware
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) DB2
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) SCSA
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Migration

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Ajax
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) XSL
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 3 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow Management
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SCSA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Compuware
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) EMC