Oxfordshire Sage Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sage products and/or services in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sage over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bradford Brentwood Cambridgeshire City of London Denbighshire East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent London Manchester Midlands North Wales North West Oxfordshire Rhyl Scotland South East Southampton UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	48	43
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.495 %	2.765 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£383
% change on same period last year	-12.48 %
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	£17.83	£21.25
% change on same period last year	-16.07 %
Vendors Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	202	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.407 %	0.266 %
Daily rates quoted	41	41
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£339
Average daily rate	£334	£356
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.82	£22.69
Average hourly rate	£26.74	£24.88
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£27.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sage Group PLC.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (100.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Web Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP