Oxfordshire Senior Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Developer
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	50
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.840 %	0.535 %
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	£395	£359
% change on same period last year	+9.87 %
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	£34.42	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	595	561
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.846 %	0.567 %
Daily rates quoted	152	100
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£295
Average daily rate	£302	£316
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	97	102
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.93	£16.27
Average hourly rate	£19.10	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+9.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.28	£18.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Senior Developer 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.

Senior Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Developer across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Senior Developer across the Oxfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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	-	1	-	-

Senior Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Senior Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Developer in their job title.

1 7 (63.64 %) C++ 2 5 (45.45 %) OO 3 4 (36.36 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (36.36 %) .NET 4 3 (27.27 %) J2EE 4 3 (27.27 %) Java 4 3 (27.27 %) Swing 4 3 (27.27 %) Hibernate 5 2 (18.18 %) OOP 5 2 (18.18 %) WCF 5 2 (18.18 %) WPF 5 2 (18.18 %) WinForms 5 2 (18.18 %) OpenGL 5 2 (18.18 %) STL 5 2 (18.18 %) XML

5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 2 (18.18 %) C# 5 2 (18.18 %) VB.NET 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 6 1 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (9.091 %) CSS 6 1 (9.091 %) MFC 6 1 (9.091 %) MySQL 6 1 (9.091 %) HTML 6 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 6 1 (9.091 %) PHP 6 1 (9.091 %) VB 6 1 (9.091 %) Epicor 6 1 (9.091 %) Commerce Server

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Senior Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (36.36 %) .NET 2 3 (27.27 %) J2EE 2 3 (27.27 %) Swing 2 3 (27.27 %) Hibernate 3 2 (18.18 %) WCF 3 2 (18.18 %) WPF 3 2 (18.18 %) WinForms 3 2 (18.18 %) OpenGL 3 2 (18.18 %) STL 3 2 (18.18 %) XML 4 1 (9.091 %) CSS 4 1 (9.091 %) MFC 4 1 (9.091 %) HTML 4 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 4 1 (9.091 %) DirectX 4 1 (9.091 %) MVC 4 1 (9.091 %) AJAX 4 1 (9.091 %) Symfony 4 1 (9.091 %) LINQ 4 1 (9.091 %) Drupal	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) Commerce Server 1 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) FRx
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (9.091 %) MySQL 2 1 (9.091 %) PostgreSQL 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Front Office 1 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 1 1 (9.091 %) 3D Graphics
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Mathematics 1 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows 1 1 (9.091 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) OO 2 4 (36.36 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (18.18 %) OOP 4 1 (9.091 %) ERP 4 1 (9.091 %) EAI 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 7 (63.64 %) C++ 2 3 (27.27 %) Java 3 2 (18.18 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) VB.NET 4 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP 4 1 (9.091 %) VB 4 1 (9.091 %) VC++ 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP5 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Epicor 2 1 (9.091 %) Infragistics