Oxford DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Ascot Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	32
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	8	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	12.70 %	8.696 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£347
% change on same period last year	-7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£29.00	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.42	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
Communications & Networking Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	63	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	14	9
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£345
Average daily rate	£328	£370
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£36.66
Average hourly rate	£24.84	£39.25
% change on same period last year	-36.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.55	£41.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
DNS Oxfordshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing DNS 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 DNS.

1 12 (75.00 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (68.75 %) Windows 3 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 4 6 (37.50 %) Internet 4 6 (37.50 %) Firewall 4 6 (37.50 %) Cisco 4 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 4 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 4 6 (37.50 %) Linux 4 6 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (31.25 %) MCSE 5 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 4 (25.00 %) MS Excel 6 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000

6 4 (25.00 %) SQL 6 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (25.00 %) WAN 6 4 (25.00 %) DHCP 7 3 (18.75 %) Red Hat 7 3 (18.75 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (18.75 %) IIS 7 3 (18.75 %) MCP 7 3 (18.75 %) ADSL 7 3 (18.75 %) Perl 7 3 (18.75 %) Apache 7 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec 8 2 (12.50 %) Migration 8 2 (12.50 %) Clustering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing DNS 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 DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 3 (18.75 %) IIS 3 3 (18.75 %) Apache	Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 12 (75.00 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (37.50 %) Internet 2 6 (37.50 %) Firewall 3 4 (25.00 %) WAN 3 4 (25.00 %) DHCP 4 3 (18.75 %) ADSL 5 2 (12.50 %) LAN 5 2 (12.50 %) VPN 5 2 (12.50 %) SAN	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Specialist 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Support 3 2 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Support Specialist 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Linux Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Technician 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Blackberry 1 2 (12.50 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 11 (68.75 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Linux 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (6.250 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 4 (25.00 %) SQL 2 3 (18.75 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (31.25 %) MCSE 3 3 (18.75 %) MCP 3 3 (18.75 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (12.50 %) MCSA
System Software 1 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 2 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (6.250 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Cisco 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 1 6 (37.50 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (18.75 %) Red Hat 3 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (12.50 %) IBM 4 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS