The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 50 - 47
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.219% - 0.216%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.613% - 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £455
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+82.50% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
62 107 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 13.60% 17.29% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 23
Average daily rate £375 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £215 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 7
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.75 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.04% +76.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.80 £16.61 £12.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £30.00 £23.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Oxford - 1 £425 -
SaaS
South East

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Niku
3 1 (12.50%) E-business
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior WebSphere Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) E-business
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Niku
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle