Oxfordshire Internet Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	34
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	37	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	26.43 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£208
Average daily rate	£284	£217
% change on same period last year	+30.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£339
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.60	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£15.34	£23.25
% change on same period last year	-34.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.08	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£23.69
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
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 %
Internet 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Internet 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 Internet across the Oxfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Internet 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 Internet 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 Internet 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	+10	18	£278	-
Abingdon	-	9	-	-

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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 Internet 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 Internet.

1 23 (46.94 %) Microsoft 2 14 (28.57 %) Intranet 3 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 4 12 (24.49 %) .NET 4 12 (24.49 %) Windows 5 11 (22.45 %) Windows XP 6 10 (20.41 %) XML 6 10 (20.41 %) ASP.NET 6 10 (20.41 %) C# 7 9 (18.37 %) MS Excel 8 8 (16.33 %) DNS 8 8 (16.33 %) Windows Server 2003 9 7 (14.29 %) XSLT 9 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 9 7 (14.29 %) HTML

9 7 (14.29 %) SQL 10 6 (12.24 %) VB6 10 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 10 6 (12.24 %) VB 10 6 (12.24 %) ASP 10 6 (12.24 %) Linux 10 6 (12.24 %) Windows NT 10 6 (12.24 %) E-Commerce 11 5 (10.20 %) Broadband 11 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 11 5 (10.20 %) Perl 11 5 (10.20 %) IIS 11 5 (10.20 %) Firewall 12 4 (8.163 %) COM 12 4 (8.163 %) DCOM

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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 Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (24.49 %) .NET 2 10 (20.41 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (20.41 %) XML 3 7 (14.29 %) XSLT 3 7 (14.29 %) HTML 4 6 (12.24 %) ASP 5 4 (8.163 %) COM 5 4 (8.163 %) DCOM 6 3 (6.122 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (4.082 %) WebServices 8 1 (2.041 %) CSS 8 1 (2.041 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.20 %) IIS 2 4 (8.163 %) MTS 2 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 2 4 (8.163 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (6.122 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (6.122 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (4.082 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 2 (4.082 %) Apache 4 2 (4.082 %) Commerce Server 4 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 9 (18.37 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.041 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (2.041 %) Great Plains 1 1 (2.041 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 14 (28.57 %) Intranet 2 8 (16.33 %) DNS 3 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (10.20 %) Firewall 3 5 (10.20 %) Broadband 4 3 (6.122 %) SMTP 4 3 (6.122 %) FTP 4 3 (6.122 %) HTTP 5 2 (4.082 %) DHCP 5 2 (4.082 %) WAN 6 1 (2.041 %) ADSL 6 1 (2.041 %) LAN 6 1 (2.041 %) Wireless 6 1 (2.041 %) IPCC 6 1 (2.041 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (2.041 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (26.53 %) SQL Server 2 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (4.082 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.041 %) Flash 2 1 (2.041 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 2 (4.082 %) Telecoms 1 2 (4.082 %) Finance 1 2 (4.082 %) Education 1 2 (4.082 %) Government 1 2 (4.082 %) Local Government 2 1 (2.041 %) Back Office 2 1 (2.041 %) Legal 2 1 (2.041 %) Publishing 2 1 (2.041 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 9 (18.37 %) Desktop Engineer 2 8 (16.33 %) Developer 2 8 (16.33 %) Administrator 3 7 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 7 (14.29 %) Network Administrator 4 5 (10.20 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (8.163 %) 1st Line Support 6 3 (6.122 %) Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Support 6 3 (6.122 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 3 (6.122 %) Network Support 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior Software Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Web Manager 7 2 (4.082 %) Project Manager 7 2 (4.082 %) Test Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) C# Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Webmaster 8 1 (2.041 %) Fraud Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.122 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (2.041 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.041 %) Replication 2 1 (2.041 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 12 (24.49 %) Windows 2 11 (22.45 %) Windows XP 3 8 (16.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (12.24 %) Linux 5 6 (12.24 %) Windows NT 6 4 (8.163 %) UNIX 7 3 (6.122 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (12.24 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (8.163 %) UML 2 4 (8.163 %) RUP 3 3 (6.122 %) OOA/OOD 3 3 (6.122 %) OO 3 3 (6.122 %) Project Management 3 3 (6.122 %) Automated Testing 4 2 (4.082 %) Project Planning 4 2 (4.082 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.041 %) ERP 5 1 (2.041 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.041 %) Quality Management 5 1 (2.041 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.041 %) Validation 5 1 (2.041 %) Migration 5 1 (2.041 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 10 (20.41 %) C# 2 7 (14.29 %) SQL 3 6 (12.24 %) VB 3 6 (12.24 %) VB6 4 5 (10.20 %) Perl 5 3 (6.122 %) Python 5 3 (6.122 %) Shell Script 6 2 (4.082 %) PHP 7 1 (2.041 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.041 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 2 (4.082 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 2 (4.082 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 23 (46.94 %) Microsoft 2 4 (8.163 %) Cisco 3 3 (6.122 %) NetApp 3 3 (6.122 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (4.082 %) Red Hat 4 2 (4.082 %) Intel 5 1 (2.041 %) SAP