The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 62 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 19 20 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.874% 3.115% 4.255%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.981% 3.221% 4.376%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 33
Average salary £24,000 £26,250 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% +0.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,100 £19,000 £20,600
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £36,000 £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
959 621 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.58% 96.73% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 827 548 708
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Graduate
Oxfordshire

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxford Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the Oxford region.

Oxford Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Graduate 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 IT job ads sampled with Graduate in their job title.

1 35 (67.31%) C#
1 35 (67.31%) Java
2 26 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 24 (46.15%) OO
4 23 (44.23%) Mathematics
5 21 (40.38%) C++
6 20 (38.46%) Degree
6 20 (38.46%) Physics
7 14 (26.92%) .NET
8 13 (25.00%) PHP
9 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
9 12 (23.08%) HTML
9 12 (23.08%) MySQL
10 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
11 10 (19.23%) VB.NET
12 9 (17.31%) SQL
12 9 (17.31%) ASP.NET
12 9 (17.31%) Python
12 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
13 8 (15.38%) Visual Studio
13 8 (15.38%) VB
13 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
13 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
14 6 (11.54%) CMS
14 6 (11.54%) Content Management
14 6 (11.54%) RDBMS
14 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
14 6 (11.54%) Intranet
14 6 (11.54%) Internet
14 6 (11.54%) Extranet

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Graduate 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 IT job ads sampled with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (26.92%) .NET
2 12 (23.08%) HTML
3 9 (17.31%) ASP.NET
4 6 (11.54%) CSS
5 5 (9.615%) ASP
6 3 (5.769%) EDI
6 3 (5.769%) WCF
7 1 (1.923%) J2EE
7 1 (1.923%) JSP
7 1 (1.923%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.54%) DotNetNuke
1 6 (11.54%) CMS
2 4 (7.692%) Joomla!
2 4 (7.692%) Drupal
2 4 (7.692%) WordPress
2 4 (7.692%) Magento
3 3 (5.769%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) Intranet
1 6 (11.54%) Internet
1 6 (11.54%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) MySQL
2 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (11.54%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.769%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.769%) QlikView
5 3 (5.769%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (5.769%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.769%) Apache Hive
5 3 (5.769%) Big Data
5 3 (5.769%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.923%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.769%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.923%) JDeveloper
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (1.923%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 26 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 23 (44.23%) Mathematics
3 20 (38.46%) Physics
4 4 (7.692%) iPad
5 3 (5.769%) Machine Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) OO
2 6 (11.54%) E-Commerce
2 6 (11.54%) Content Management
3 5 (9.615%) Web Development
4 3 (5.769%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (5.769%) PRINCE2
4 3 (5.769%) DSDM
5 2 (3.846%) Workflow
6 1 (1.923%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (1.923%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (1.923%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) C#
1 35 (67.31%) Java
2 21 (40.38%) C++
3 13 (25.00%) PHP
4 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.23%) VB.NET
6 9 (17.31%) Python
6 9 (17.31%) SQL
7 8 (15.38%) VB
8 3 (5.769%) C
8 3 (5.769%) Delphi
8 3 (5.769%) MATLAB
8 3 (5.769%) F#
8 3 (5.769%) Scala
8 3 (5.769%) R
9 2 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) PhD
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.769%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle
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