Oxfordshire RAD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Rapid Application Development (RAD) 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 RAD over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh England Essex Guildford Hampshire Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West Oxfordshire Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	48	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.552 %	0.000 %
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	£381	£398
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
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	£23.53	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-34.62 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	181	173
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.365 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	51	48
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£409
Average daily rate	£344	£424
% change on same period last year	-18.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.49	£18.36
Average hourly rate	£27.42	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+38.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.36	£21.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.81
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
RAD 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.

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Demand Trend

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

RAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing RAD 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 RAD.

1 1 (100.00 %) OLAP 1 1 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (100.00 %) SAS 1 1 (100.00 %) Star Schema

RAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing RAD 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 RAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) SAS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) OLAP 1 1 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (100.00 %) Star Schema
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) SAS Developer