Oxfordshire Information Security Contracts

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

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hinckley Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	51
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.830 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£425
Average daily rate	-	£438
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£448
% change on same period last year	-6.19 %
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	£25.71	£30.58
% change on same period last year	-15.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	342	241
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.486 %	0.243 %
Daily rates quoted	115	49
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£289
Average daily rate	£324	£310
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.56	£19.45
Average hourly rate	£27.30	£21.26
% change on same period last year	+28.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.05	£23.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Information Security 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.

Information Security
Demand Trend

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Information Security
Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) MCP 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 1 (100.00 %) FTP 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) NetApp 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) McAfee Security 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) FTP	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Wintel Engineer	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) MCP 1 1 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) NetApp 1 1 (100.00 %) McAfee Security