The first table below looks at the demand for IC Design 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 IC Design over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integrated Circuit Design (IC Design)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing IC Design 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -12.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
314 367 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.86% 59.29% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 189 136
Average daily rate £350 £400 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +26.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 35 10
Average hourly rate £11.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.88% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
IC Design
South East

IC Design
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing IC Design 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 IC Design.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IC Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing IC Design 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 IC Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence