Oxfordshire SAS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Exeter Gateshead Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	47	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.469 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£380
% change on same period last year	+1.94 %
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	£20.25	£36.30
% change on same period last year	-44.22 %
Application Platforms Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	81	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.123 %
Daily rates quoted	19	23
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£324
Average daily rate	£335	£354
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.70	£16.40
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£17.44
% change on same period last year	+30.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.66	£18.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.48	£23.04
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
SAS 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.

SAS
Demand Trend

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

SAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (66.67 %) ETL 2 2 (66.67 %) OLAP 2 2 (66.67 %) Star Schema 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (33.33 %) Agresso 3 1 (33.33 %) SAP BW 3 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Retail 3 1 (33.33 %) Data Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) QA 3 1 (33.33 %) Database Marketing

3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle OLAP 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) SAS Macro 3 1 (33.33 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 1 (33.33 %) Base SAS 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects 3 1 (33.33 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (33.33 %) SAP 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) RAD 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) Cognos 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (66.67 %) ETL 2 2 (66.67 %) Star Schema 2 2 (66.67 %) OLAP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (33.33 %) SAP BW 3 1 (33.33 %) Database Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle OLAP 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) Base SAS	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail 1 1 (33.33 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Programme Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) SAS Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) SAS Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Consultant	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) RAD 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Dimensional Modelling	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects 1 1 (33.33 %) PeopleSoft 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP 1 1 (33.33 %) Cognos 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Agresso