Oxfordshire Middleware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Jersey Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Poole Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	48
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	9	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	4.592 %	0.562 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£300
Average daily rate	£313	£300
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£424	£398
% change on same period last year	+6.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.79	£33.53
% change on same period last year	+12.68 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	196	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.258 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	40	40
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£299
Average daily rate	£322	£323
% change on same period last year	-0.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.19	£23.10
Average hourly rate	£20.85	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-18.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.52	£28.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Middleware within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Oxford	-	8	£313	-
Thame	-	1	-	-
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 8 (57.14 %) SQL 2 7 (50.00 %) .NET 3 6 (42.86 %) Java 4 5 (35.71 %) SQL Server 4 5 (35.71 %) WebServices 4 5 (35.71 %) XML 5 4 (28.57 %) VB.NET 5 4 (28.57 %) BPEL 5 4 (28.57 %) WebSphere 5 4 (28.57 %) ESB 5 4 (28.57 %) SEEBURGER 6 3 (21.43 %) WPS 6 3 (21.43 %) Computer Science 6 3 (21.43 %) Degree 6 3 (21.43 %) BizTalk Server

6 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere MQ 6 3 (21.43 %) SAP 6 3 (21.43 %) Servlets 6 3 (21.43 %) SOAP 6 3 (21.43 %) IBM 7 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 7 2 (14.29 %) SOA 7 2 (14.29 %) JBoss 7 2 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (14.29 %) EJB 7 2 (14.29 %) JDBC 7 2 (14.29 %) Unix 7 2 (14.29 %) UML 7 2 (14.29 %) Perl 7 2 (14.29 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (50.00 %) .NET 2 5 (35.71 %) WebServices 2 5 (35.71 %) XML 3 4 (28.57 %) WebSphere 4 3 (21.43 %) Servlets 4 3 (21.43 %) SOAP 5 2 (14.29 %) J2EE 5 2 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (14.29 %) EJB 5 2 (14.29 %) JDBC 6 1 (7.143 %) JMS 6 1 (7.143 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 4 (28.57 %) ESB 2 3 (21.43 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere MQ 2 3 (21.43 %) WPS 3 2 (14.29 %) JBoss 4 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint 4 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (7.143 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) HTTP 1 1 (7.143 %) Intranet 1 1 (7.143 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (35.71 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (7.143 %) RequisitePro	Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Developer 2 5 (35.71 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (28.57 %) VB.NET Developer 4 2 (14.29 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (7.143 %) CRM Consultant 5 1 (7.143 %) .NET Designer 5 1 (7.143 %) Server Administrator 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 5 1 (7.143 %) DBA 5 1 (7.143 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) Computer Science 2 2 (14.29 %) Clustering 3 1 (7.143 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Unix 2 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) BPEL 2 2 (14.29 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (14.29 %) UML 2 2 (14.29 %) SOA 2 2 (14.29 %) B2B 3 1 (7.143 %) B2C 3 1 (7.143 %) Quality Management 3 1 (7.143 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (7.143 %) OO 3 1 (7.143 %) RUP 3 1 (7.143 %) CRM 3 1 (7.143 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (7.143 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 8 (57.14 %) SQL 2 6 (42.86 %) Java 3 4 (28.57 %) VB.NET 4 2 (14.29 %) Perl 5 1 (7.143 %) C#
Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) Degree	Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) SEEBURGER 2 3 (21.43 %) SAP 2 3 (21.43 %) IBM 3 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 1 (7.143 %) Intel