Oxfordshire DNS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Falkirk Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	47
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	25	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	21.01 %	7.407 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£270	-
Average daily rate	£282	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£294	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£351
% change on same period last year	-4.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.63	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£14.37	£20.50
% change on same period last year	-29.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.11	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£26.43
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	119	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.082 %
Daily rates quoted	38	9
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£374
Average daily rate	£278	£392
% change on same period last year	-29.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.74	£16.34
Average hourly rate	£31.38	£17.14
% change on same period last year	+83.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.01	£17.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
DNS South East

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.

DNS
Demand Trend

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

DNS
Daily Rate Trend

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

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

DNS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+1	7	£313	-
Bicester	-	3	-	-
Abingdon	-	2	-	-

DNS South East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing DNS 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 DNS.

1 27 (61.36 %) Windows 2 23 (52.27 %) Active Directory 3 21 (47.73 %) DHCP 4 18 (40.91 %) Windows Server 2003 5 17 (38.64 %) Microsoft 5 17 (38.64 %) TCP/IP 6 14 (31.82 %) Linux 7 13 (29.55 %) Microsoft Certification 8 12 (27.27 %) MCSE 9 11 (25.00 %) Firewall 10 10 (22.73 %) Perl 10 10 (22.73 %) MS Exchange 11 9 (20.45 %) Cisco 11 9 (20.45 %) Internet 12 8 (18.18 %) UNIX

12 8 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 8 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 13 7 (15.91 %) WAN 13 7 (15.91 %) SMTP 14 6 (13.64 %) LAN 14 6 (13.64 %) HTTP 14 6 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 14 6 (13.64 %) Python 14 6 (13.64 %) SharePoint 14 6 (13.64 %) IIS 14 6 (13.64 %) MS Office 15 5 (11.36 %) Blackberry 15 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2005 15 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing DNS 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 DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (9.091 %) XML 1 4 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (9.091 %) HTML 1 4 (9.091 %) .NET 2 3 (6.818 %) WebServices 3 2 (4.545 %) LAMP 4 1 (2.273 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 10 (22.73 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (13.64 %) SharePoint 3 6 (13.64 %) IIS 4 5 (11.36 %) Apache 5 4 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (6.818 %) Commerce Server 2007 6 3 (6.818 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 3 (6.818 %) Commerce Server 7 2 (4.545 %) CMS 7 2 (4.545 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 6 (13.64 %) MS Office 2 4 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 21 (47.73 %) DHCP 2 17 (38.64 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 9 (20.45 %) Internet 5 7 (15.91 %) WAN 5 7 (15.91 %) SMTP 6 6 (13.64 %) LAN 6 6 (13.64 %) HTTP 7 5 (11.36 %) VPN 7 5 (11.36 %) SAN 8 4 (9.091 %) FTP 9 3 (6.818 %) Cisco PIX 9 3 (6.818 %) LDAP 9 3 (6.818 %) ADSL 9 3 (6.818 %) HTTPS 9 3 (6.818 %) SNMP 10 2 (4.545 %) VoIP 10 2 (4.545 %) SSL 10 2 (4.545 %) Intrusion Detection 10 2 (4.545 %) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2005 1 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.818 %) MySQL 3 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) Subversion
General 1 1 (2.273 %) Back Office 1 1 (2.273 %) Education	Job Titles 1 7 (15.91 %) Administrator 1 7 (15.91 %) Analyst 2 6 (13.64 %) Systems Administrator 2 6 (13.64 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (11.36 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (9.091 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (9.091 %) Developer 5 3 (6.818 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 3 (6.818 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (6.818 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (6.818 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Network Support 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (4.545 %) Test Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Senior Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Network Consultant 7 1 (2.273 %) Server Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.36 %) Blackberry 2 3 (6.818 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.273 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 27 (61.36 %) Windows 2 18 (40.91 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (31.82 %) Linux 4 8 (18.18 %) UNIX 4 8 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 6 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (9.091 %) Windows XP 7 3 (6.818 %) CentOS 7 3 (6.818 %) FreeBSD 8 2 (4.545 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.091 %) Automated Testing 1 4 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 3 (6.818 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (6.818 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (6.818 %) Content Management 2 3 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (2.273 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (2.273 %) Computer Security 3 1 (2.273 %) Migration 3 1 (2.273 %) Software Testing 3 1 (2.273 %) UML 3 1 (2.273 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 10 (22.73 %) Perl 2 6 (13.64 %) Python 3 4 (9.091 %) C# 4 3 (6.818 %) Shell Script 4 3 (6.818 %) SQL 5 1 (2.273 %) VBScript 5 1 (2.273 %) VB 5 1 (2.273 %) C
Qualifications 1 13 (29.55 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (27.27 %) MCSE 3 4 (9.091 %) MCP 4 3 (6.818 %) Degree 4 3 (6.818 %) MCSA 5 2 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 23 (52.27 %) Active Directory 2 4 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (6.818 %) NFS 3 3 (6.818 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (4.545 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware Server 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 3 (6.818 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.273 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 17 (38.64 %) Microsoft 2 9 (20.45 %) Cisco 3 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 4 3 (6.818 %) IBM 4 3 (6.818 %) NetApp 4 3 (6.818 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (4.545 %) VMware 5 2 (4.545 %) Red Hat 6 1 (2.273 %) HP 6 1 (2.273 %) Dell 6 1 (2.273 %) CA 6 1 (2.273 %) VERITAS