Oxford Support Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Specialist 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 job ads that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Specialist
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Cornwall Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gloucestershire Grampian Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sidcup South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.563 %	0.000 %
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	£352	£298
% change on same period last year	+17.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.32	£25.97
% change on same period last year	-25.62 %
Job Titles Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	256	258
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.338 %	0.274 %
Daily rates quoted	67	45
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£315
Average daily rate	£343	£335
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.66	£25.10
Average hourly rate	£21.24	£26.85
% change on same period last year	-20.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.82	£28.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Support Specialist 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.

Support Specialist
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (50.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (50.00 %) DNS 1 3 (50.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (50.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 2 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse 2 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (33.33 %) Migration

3 1 (16.67 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (16.67 %) SAP 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (16.67 %) Publishing

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 3 (50.00 %) DNS 2 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Publishing
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 2 (33.33 %) Migration 2 1 (16.67 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (50.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (50.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (16.67 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 3 (50.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) SAP