Oxford Network Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT contracts within the Oxford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Support in their job title over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Crewe Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Reading Rugby Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	37
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.362 %	0.362 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£228	£280
% change on same period last year	-18.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.00
Average hourly rate	-	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.30	£22.07
% change on same period last year	-12.56 %
Job Titles Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	276	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.367 %	0.275 %
Daily rates quoted	83	52
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£345
Average daily rate	£316	£370
% change on same period last year	-14.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.83	£22.26
Average hourly rate	£19.82	£24.07
% change on same period last year	-17.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.80	£25.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.26 %
Network Support 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 Network Support across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Network Support across the Oxford region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Network Support 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Network Support in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) CCNA 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Statistics 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Network Support 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Network Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) CCNA 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CheckPoint