Oxfordshire Manufacturing Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Manufacturing' in contract IT jobs within the Oxfordshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Manufacturing over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Manufacturing
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Chesham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Inverness Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Scotland Sevenoaks Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Strathclyde Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Templecombe Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	50
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.041 %	2.721 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£400
% change on same period last year	+1.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£23.32
% change on same period last year	+26.19 %
General Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	147	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.208 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	42	32
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£325
Average daily rate	£294	£351
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.49	£13.70
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£14.79
% change on same period last year	+17.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.39	£15.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.07	£26.79
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %
Manufacturing South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Manufacturing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Manufacturing across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Manufacturing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manufacturing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manufacturing within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

Manufacturing South East

Manufacturing
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing.

1 2 (33.33 %) CAD 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 2 (33.33 %) Degree 1 2 (33.33 %) Lean Manufacturing 2 1 (16.67 %) CAPA 2 1 (16.67 %) QA 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (16.67 %) SLA 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Office

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office
Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) CAD Designer 2 1 (16.67 %) Project Manager 2 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (16.67 %) Quality Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Network Support	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) CAD 1 2 (33.33 %) Lean Manufacturing 2 1 (16.67 %) CAPA 2 1 (16.67 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) SLA 1 1 (16.67 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft