Oxford TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 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 TCP/IP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Angus Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	15
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	22	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	34.92 %	45.65 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£300
Average daily rate	£272	£324
% change on same period last year	-16.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£320
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.25	£37.09
Average hourly rate	£29.75	£39.68
% change on same period last year	-25.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.25	£42.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
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 %
TCP/IP 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.

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP.

1 20 (62.50 %) Windows 2 13 (40.63 %) WAN 2 13 (40.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 12 (37.50 %) DNS 4 11 (34.38 %) LAN 4 11 (34.38 %) Active Directory 5 10 (31.25 %) Windows NT 6 9 (28.13 %) Linux 6 9 (28.13 %) ITIL 7 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 7 8 (25.00 %) SMS 7 8 (25.00 %) SharePoint 7 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 7 8 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft

8 7 (21.88 %) Windows Server 2003 8 7 (21.88 %) Citrix 8 7 (21.88 %) Unix 9 6 (18.75 %) MS Excel 9 6 (18.75 %) Perl 9 6 (18.75 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (15.63 %) NetApp 10 5 (15.63 %) Microsoft Certification 10 5 (15.63 %) Python 11 4 (12.50 %) MCSE 11 4 (12.50 %) DHCP 11 4 (12.50 %) Internet 11 4 (12.50 %) Shell Script 12 3 (9.375 %) CheckPoint 12 3 (9.375 %) Firewall

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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 TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 13 (40.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 8 (25.00 %) SharePoint 3 6 (18.75 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 13 (40.63 %) WAN 2 12 (37.50 %) DNS 3 11 (34.38 %) LAN 4 8 (25.00 %) SMS 5 4 (12.50 %) DHCP 5 4 (12.50 %) Internet 6 3 (9.375 %) Firewall 6 3 (9.375 %) ADSL 7 2 (6.250 %) SAN 7 2 (6.250 %) FTP 7 2 (6.250 %) HTTP 7 2 (6.250 %) VPN 7 2 (6.250 %) SMTP 8 1 (3.125 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 1 8 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) ClearCase	General 1 3 (9.375 %) Back Office 2 2 (6.250 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (31.25 %) 2nd Line Support 2 9 (28.13 %) Support Technician 3 7 (21.88 %) 3rd Line Support 4 6 (18.75 %) Analyst 5 4 (12.50 %) Server Support 5 4 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (9.375 %) Systems Engineer 6 3 (9.375 %) Systems Administrator 6 3 (9.375 %) Tester 6 3 (9.375 %) Administrator 6 3 (9.375 %) Server Engineer 6 3 (9.375 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Support Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Cisco Support 7 2 (6.250 %) Server Specialist 7 2 (6.250 %) Network Support 7 2 (6.250 %) Cisco Network Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Server Support Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Server Support Specialist 7 2 (6.250 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.250 %) Blackberry 1 2 (6.250 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.125 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 20 (62.50 %) Windows 2 10 (31.25 %) Windows NT 3 9 (28.13 %) Linux 4 7 (21.88 %) Unix 4 7 (21.88 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (6.250 %) Windows XP 5 2 (6.250 %) FreeBSD 6 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (28.13 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (6.250 %) Migration 2 2 (6.250 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (3.125 %) Release Management 3 1 (3.125 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (18.75 %) Perl 2 5 (15.63 %) Python 3 4 (12.50 %) Shell Script 4 1 (3.125 %) Korn 4 1 (3.125 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (15.63 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (9.375 %) MCP 4 2 (6.250 %) MCSA 5 1 (3.125 %) Degree
System Software 1 11 (34.38 %) Active Directory 2 2 (6.250 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (6.250 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (3.125 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (3.125 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft 1 7 (21.88 %) Citrix 2 5 (15.63 %) NetApp 3 3 (9.375 %) Cisco 3 3 (9.375 %) IBM 3 3 (9.375 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (3.125 %) VMware 4 1 (3.125 %) VERITAS