Oxfordshire PRINCE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PRINCE skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PRINCE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PRINCE
Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	51
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	3.216 %	1.304 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£350
Average daily rate	£190	£350
% change on same period last year	-45.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£388
% change on same period last year	+1.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£12.50
% change on same period last year	+126.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.30	£27.86
% change on same period last year	+1.58 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	342	230
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.456 %	0.233 %
Daily rates quoted	94	46
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£319
Average daily rate	£350	£346
% change on same period last year	+1.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.70	£21.98
Average hourly rate	£24.59	£24.42
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.49	£26.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
PRINCE 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.

PRINCE
Demand Trend

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

PRINCE
Daily Rate Trend

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

PRINCE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PRINCE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PRINCE within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 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	+4	7	£190	-45.71 %
Bicester	-	2	-	-

PRINCE South East

PRINCE
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE.

1 8 (61.54 %) ITIL 2 7 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 4 4 (30.77 %) MS Project 4 4 (30.77 %) QA 5 2 (15.38 %) Service Management 5 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 5 2 (15.38 %) LAN 5 2 (15.38 %) WAN 5 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 5 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (7.692 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (7.692 %) Logistics 6 1 (7.692 %) Economics

6 1 (7.692 %) Project Planning 6 1 (7.692 %) Degree 6 1 (7.692 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (7.692 %) SLA 6 1 (7.692 %) Windows 6 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel 6 1 (7.692 %) Ingres 6 1 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (7.692 %) ECDL

PRINCE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing PRINCE 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 PRINCE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) MS Project 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (15.38 %) LAN 1 2 (15.38 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) Ingres	Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) Coordinator 1 4 (30.77 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (23.08 %) Project Administrator 2 3 (23.08 %) Administrator 3 2 (15.38 %) IT Administrator 3 2 (15.38 %) Project Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) IT Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) IT Project Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Support Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Incident Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) ITIL Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Controller 4 1 (7.692 %) ITIL Service Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Service Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Economics	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (61.54 %) ITIL 2 7 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 3 2 (15.38 %) Service Management 3 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (7.692 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (7.692 %) Logistics 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Planning 4 1 (7.692 %) Matrix Management	Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) ECDL 1 1 (7.692 %) Degree 1 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (30.77 %) QA 2 1 (7.692 %) SLA	Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 2 2 (15.38 %) Cisco