Oxfordshire Use Case Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Use Cases 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 Use Case over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Use Cases
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	49
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	6	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.818 %	2.110 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£300
Average daily rate	£370	£350
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
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	£34.44	£28.84
% change on same period last year	+19.42 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	330	237
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.467 %	0.240 %
Daily rates quoted	110	46
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£280
Average daily rate	£327	£300
% change on same period last year	+9.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.86	£18.11
Average hourly rate	£28.71	£19.86
% change on same period last year	+44.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.55	£21.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Use Case 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.

Use Case
Demand Trend

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 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	-9	3	£370	+5.71 %

Use Case South East

Use Case
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Use Case 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 Use Case.

1 3 (42.86 %) TickIT 1 3 (42.86 %) Change Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Data Modelling 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 1 3 (42.86 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) QA 2 2 (28.57 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Stress Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) System Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) UML 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 2 2 (28.57 %) CRM 2 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce

2 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 2 2 (28.57 %) Regression Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Workflow 2 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Systems Analysis

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Use Case 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 Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel

Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Business Analyst 1 5 (71.43 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) QA Tester 2 2 (28.57 %) CRM Business Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Tester

Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 1 3 (42.86 %) Data Modelling 1 3 (42.86 %) Change Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Stress Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) System Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Regression Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Workflow 2 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Systems Analysis 2 2 (28.57 %) UML 2 2 (28.57 %) CRM 2 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce

Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (42.86 %) TickIT 2 2 (28.57 %) QA