Oxford LAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) 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 LAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	19
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	25	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	39.68 %	36.96 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£383
Average daily rate	£382	£433
% change on same period last year	-11.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£483
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£318
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.75	£36.40
Average hourly rate	£22.75	£38.95
% change on same period last year	-41.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.75	£41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.46	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-23.66 %
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 %
LAN 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.

LAN
Demand Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (100.00 %) WAN 2 26 (83.87 %) Windows 3 18 (58.06 %) ITIL 4 12 (38.71 %) SQL Server 4 12 (38.71 %) Active Directory 5 11 (35.48 %) Windows NT 5 11 (35.48 %) TCP/IP 5 11 (35.48 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 10 (32.26 %) Cisco 7 9 (29.03 %) Microsoft Certification 7 9 (29.03 %) Oracle 8 8 (25.81 %) SharePoint 8 8 (25.81 %) Microsoft 8 8 (25.81 %) SMS 8 8 (25.81 %) Cisco Certification

8 8 (25.81 %) SQL Server 2000 8 8 (25.81 %) Service Management 8 8 (25.81 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 8 (25.81 %) IP Telephony 9 7 (22.58 %) SAN 9 7 (22.58 %) Citrix 9 7 (22.58 %) MS Excel 9 7 (22.58 %) IBM 9 7 (22.58 %) MCP 10 6 (19.35 %) MS Exchange 10 6 (19.35 %) Windows Server 2003 11 5 (16.13 %) BusinessObjects 11 5 (16.13 %) Red Hat 11 5 (16.13 %) Migration 11 5 (16.13 %) DB2

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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 LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.226 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 11 (35.48 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (25.81 %) SharePoint 2 8 (25.81 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 6 (19.35 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (3.226 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 7 (22.58 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 31 (100.00 %) WAN 2 11 (35.48 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (25.81 %) SMS 3 8 (25.81 %) IP Telephony 4 7 (22.58 %) SAN 5 2 (6.452 %) ADSL 5 2 (6.452 %) VPN 5 2 (6.452 %) DNS 5 2 (6.452 %) DHCP 6 1 (3.226 %) Ethernet 6 1 (3.226 %) LDAP 6 1 (3.226 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (38.71 %) SQL Server 2 8 (25.81 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (16.13 %) DB2 UDB 3 5 (16.13 %) BusinessObjects 3 5 (16.13 %) DB2 3 5 (16.13 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (3.226 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 4 (12.90 %) Government 1 4 (12.90 %) Local Government 2 3 (9.677 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (32.26 %) 2nd Line Support 2 8 (25.81 %) Support Technician 3 7 (22.58 %) Analyst 4 5 (16.13 %) Systems Engineer 5 4 (12.90 %) Solutions Analyst 5 4 (12.90 %) Data Analyst 6 3 (9.677 %) Cisco Engineer 6 3 (9.677 %) IT Manager 6 3 (9.677 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (6.452 %) Service Manager 7 2 (6.452 %) Support Manager 7 2 (6.452 %) IT Support Manager 8 1 (3.226 %) Desktop Analyst 8 1 (3.226 %) Systems Manager 8 1 (3.226 %) Field Engineer 8 1 (3.226 %) Engineering Manager 8 1 (3.226 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 1 (3.226 %) Desktop Support Analyst 8 1 (3.226 %) 3rd Line Support 8 1 (3.226 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.452 %) Blackberry 1 2 (6.452 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 26 (83.87 %) Windows 2 11 (35.48 %) Windows NT 3 6 (19.35 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (16.13 %) Linux 4 5 (16.13 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (6.452 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (58.06 %) ITIL 2 8 (25.81 %) Service Management 3 5 (16.13 %) Migration 3 5 (16.13 %) Data Management 4 4 (12.90 %) Resource Management 4 4 (12.90 %) Data Migration 5 3 (9.677 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE 6 1 (3.226 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (12.90 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (29.03 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (25.81 %) Cisco Certification 3 7 (22.58 %) MCP 4 4 (12.90 %) MCSE 5 2 (6.452 %) MCSA 5 2 (6.452 %) CCNA 6 1 (3.226 %) Degree 6 1 (3.226 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.226 %) SLA	System Software 1 12 (38.71 %) Active Directory 2 3 (9.677 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (6.452 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (6.452 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (3.226 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 10 (32.26 %) Cisco 2 9 (29.03 %) Oracle 3 8 (25.81 %) Microsoft 4 7 (22.58 %) Citrix 4 7 (22.58 %) IBM 5 5 (16.13 %) Business Objects 5 5 (16.13 %) Red Hat 6 3 (9.677 %) SAP 7 1 (3.226 %) Lotus