The first table below looks at the demand for WSE 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 WSE 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 Application Development 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
Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WSE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £190 - £190
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
97 199 197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.95% 31.64% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 105 120
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSE
South East

WSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire WSE Jobs Demand Trend

WSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire WSE Daily Rate Trend

WSE
Top 18 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio

WSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL