Oxford Systems Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Systems Support
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Barnsley Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Portsmouth Reading Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Surrey Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£236	£242
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.42	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
Job Titles Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	263	236
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.370 %	0.238 %
Daily rates quoted	78	46
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£329
Average daily rate	£313	£352
% change on same period last year	-10.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.67	£17.04
Average hourly rate	£15.37	£18.46
% change on same period last year	-16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.07	£19.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems 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 Systems Support 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 Systems Support across the Oxford region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (100.00 %) Citrix 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server	System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Citrix