The first table below looks at the demand for MSI 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 MSI over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Development Applications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Rank - 50 43
Contract jobs citing MSI 0 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 0.522% 1.636%
As % of the Development Applications category - 6.818% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £300 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £278
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £34.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-30.65% +14.16%
All Development Applications
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
30 44 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 6.410% 7.652% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 48
Average daily rate £335 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £225 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £443 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £24.50 £34.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.94% +4.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
MSI
South East

MSI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire MSI Jobs Demand Trend

MSI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire MSI Daily Rate Trend

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire MSI Hourly Rate Trend

MSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Abingdon - - - -
MSI
South East

MSI
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing MSI 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 MSI.

1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) VBScript
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
2 1 (25.00%) Kendo UI
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery

MSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing MSI 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 MSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Caliburn.Micro
1 1 (25.00%) Kendo UI
1 1 (25.00%) WinForms
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Packager
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) MVVM
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft