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Open Source Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 48 52 48
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -4
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.425% 0.515% 0.810%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.941% 3.125% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £313 £225 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.88% -30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.19% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +29.03%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 68 96 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 14.44% 16.49% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 31
Average daily rate £375 £331 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% +10.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £213 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £610 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 8
Average hourly rate £15.75 £21.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.74% +53.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.04 £8.00 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.13 £30.80 £23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Open Source Jobs Demand Trend

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford +4 2 £313 +38.88% 3
Abingdon - - - -
Banbury - - - -
Kidlington - - - -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Open Source 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 Open Source.

1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) ISEB
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
3 1 (12.50%) Intranet
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) Drupal
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Open Source 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 Open Source. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Objects Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Report Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
2 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
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