The first table below looks at the demand for Workflow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Workflow over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Workflow
Rank 40 42 48
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing Workflow 11 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.489% 1.590% 0.222%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.618% 2.703% 0.392%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 1
Average daily rate £313 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.55% +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £16.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
304 370 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.78% 58.82% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 196 137
Average daily rate £350 £400 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 36 9
Average hourly rate £12.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Workflow
South East

Workflow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Workflow Jobs Demand Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Workflow Daily Rate Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Workflow across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Workflow Daily Rate Histogram

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Workflow Hourly Rate Trend

Workflow
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford +4 7 £400 -11.11%
Workflow
South East

Workflow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Workflow 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 Workflow.

1 7 (38.89%) Publishing
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 6 (33.33%) XML
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) CMS
4 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (22.22%) CSS
4 4 (22.22%) CRM
5 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 3 (16.67%) XSL
5 3 (16.67%) J2EE
5 3 (16.67%) MySQL
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 3 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) OOP
5 3 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
5 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Web Design
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Objective-C

Workflow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Workflow 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 Workflow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) XML
2 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 4 (22.22%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) XSL
4 3 (16.67%) J2EE
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) JSON
4 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 3 (16.67%) Ajax
4 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 3 (16.67%) iOS SDK
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) CMS
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP BPC
2 1 (5.556%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) SQLite
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (38.89%) Publishing
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Agile .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Agile C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Junior
5 1 (5.556%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) E-Learning
3 1 (5.556%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Android
1 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (22.22%) CRM
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) OOP
3 3 (16.67%) TDD
3 3 (16.67%) Web Design
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Workflow Management
3 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) B2B
4 2 (11.11%) BPR
5 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Sage
3 2 (11.11%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) HP