The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Rank 46 56 47
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs citing W3C 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.443% 0.161% 0.216%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.175% 0.952% 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £307 £335 £250
% change year-on-year
-8.50% +34.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-57.14% +40.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
63 105 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 13.97% 16.88% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 50 23
Average daily rate £375 £308 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +11.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £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 21 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 £16.69 £12.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £30.00 £23.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
W3C
South East

W3C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Oxfordshire W3C Jobs Demand Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing W3C across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire W3C Daily Rate Trend

W3C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire W3C Hourly Rate Trend

W3C
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing W3C 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 W3C.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5
1 2 (100.00%) PHP4
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing W3C 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 W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5
1 2 (100.00%) PHP4