Oxfordshire Firewall Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Firewall 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 Firewall over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	30
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	11	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	7.857 %	21.82 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£425
Average daily rate	£290	£438
% change on same period last year	-33.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£346
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	£32.85
Average hourly rate	£21.33	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-39.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.33	£37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£28.38
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	140	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.187 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	33	23
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£332
Average daily rate	£296	£353
% change on same period last year	-16.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.88	£31.68
Average hourly rate	£20.10	£34.04
% change on same period last year	-40.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.31	£36.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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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 Firewall across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	-11	6	-	-
Bicester	-	1	£290	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Firewall 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 Firewall.

1 10 (66.67 %) DNS 2 9 (60.00 %) Cisco 3 6 (40.00 %) Microsoft 3 6 (40.00 %) Windows 3 6 (40.00 %) Linux 4 5 (33.33 %) SQL Server 4 5 (33.33 %) Internet 4 5 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 5 4 (26.67 %) IIS 5 4 (26.67 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (26.67 %) DHCP 6 3 (20.00 %) WAN 6 3 (20.00 %) VPN 6 3 (20.00 %) Cisco Certification 6 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2005

6 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (13.33 %) Commerce Server 2007 7 2 (13.33 %) Cisco IOS 7 2 (13.33 %) Lotus 7 2 (13.33 %) Red Hat 7 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 7 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (13.33 %) Commerce Server 7 2 (13.33 %) VoIP 7 2 (13.33 %) LAN 7 2 (13.33 %) Apache 7 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint 7 2 (13.33 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Firewall 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 Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (13.33 %) HTML 1 2 (13.33 %) .NET 1 2 (13.33 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (13.33 %) WebServices 1 2 (13.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (26.67 %) IIS 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (13.33 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 2 (13.33 %) Commerce Server 3 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (13.33 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (13.33 %) Apache 3 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint 4 1 (6.667 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (6.667 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 2 (13.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (66.67 %) DNS 2 5 (33.33 %) Internet 3 4 (26.67 %) DHCP 4 3 (20.00 %) WAN 4 3 (20.00 %) VPN 5 2 (13.33 %) VoIP 5 2 (13.33 %) LAN 5 2 (13.33 %) Cisco IOS 6 1 (6.667 %) Network Security 6 1 (6.667 %) SSL 6 1 (6.667 %) IPv4 6 1 (6.667 %) MPLS 6 1 (6.667 %) PPTP 6 1 (6.667 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (6.667 %) Intrusion Detection 6 1 (6.667 %) VLAN 6 1 (6.667 %) Cisco IPT 6 1 (6.667 %) SMS 6 1 (6.667 %) Ethernet 6 1 (6.667 %) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (6.667 %) Informix	General 1 1 (6.667 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 5 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (20.00 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (20.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (13.33 %) Developer 4 1 (6.667 %) Architect 4 1 (6.667 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Data Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) Data Centre Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 6 (40.00 %) Windows 1 6 (40.00 %) Linux 2 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (6.667 %) ITIL 1 1 (6.667 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (13.33 %) C# 1 2 (13.33 %) Perl 1 2 (13.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (20.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (6.667 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.667 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 2 (13.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.667 %) ISA Server 2 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (6.667 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (6.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 9 (60.00 %) Cisco 2 6 (40.00 %) Microsoft 3 5 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (13.33 %) Lotus 4 2 (13.33 %) Red Hat 5 1 (6.667 %) Apple 5 1 (6.667 %) VMware 5 1 (6.667 %) Nortel 5 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 5 1 (6.667 %) Nokia 5 1 (6.667 %) PeopleSoft