Oxford WSUS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) skills within the Oxford region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WSUS over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cardiff City of London Dorset England Glasgow Hammersmith Kent Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire UK Wales West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	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	£339	£308
% change on same period last year	+9.99 %
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	£31.64	£18.74
% change on same period last year	+68.82 %
Systems Management Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	11	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£400
Average daily rate	£391	£450
% change on same period last year	-13.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£360
% change on same period last year	-5.84 %
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	£28.87	£26.99
% change on same period last year	+6.99 %
WSUS 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.

WSUS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WSUS across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

WSUS
Daily Rate Trend

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

WSUS
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing WSUS 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 WSUS.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Vista 1 1 (100.00 %) SCCM 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2008

WSUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing WSUS 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 WSUS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Vista 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL	Systems Management 1 1 (100.00 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft