Oxfordshire Network Design Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Network Design 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 Network Design over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Design
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England England Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	48	48
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.552 %	0.578 %
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	£425	£390
% change on same period last year	+9.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	-
Average hourly rate	£50.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.82	£37.07
% change on same period last year	+12.80 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	181	173
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.365 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	51	48
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£409
Average daily rate	£344	£424
% change on same period last year	-18.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.49	£18.36
Average hourly rate	£27.42	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+38.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.36	£21.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.81
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Network Design 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.

Network Design
Demand Trend

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

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	-	1	-	-

Network Design South East

Network Design
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Network Design 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 Network Design.

1 6 (85.71 %) LAN 1 6 (85.71 %) VoIP 1 6 (85.71 %) WAN 1 6 (85.71 %) PPP 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco 1 6 (85.71 %) IPv4 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco Certification 1 6 (85.71 %) H.323 1 6 (85.71 %) Firewall 1 6 (85.71 %) VLAN 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco IOS 2 5 (71.43 %) OSPF 2 5 (71.43 %) BGP 2 5 (71.43 %) EIGRP 2 5 (71.43 %) CCNA

2 5 (71.43 %) CCNP 2 5 (71.43 %) RIP 3 3 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (28.57 %) Logistics 5 1 (14.29 %) CCDP 5 1 (14.29 %) MPLS 5 1 (14.29 %) VPN 5 1 (14.29 %) CCIP 5 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Network Design 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 Network Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (85.71 %) LAN 1 6 (85.71 %) VoIP 1 6 (85.71 %) WAN 1 6 (85.71 %) PPP 1 6 (85.71 %) IPv4 1 6 (85.71 %) H.323 1 6 (85.71 %) Firewall 1 6 (85.71 %) VLAN 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco IOS 2 5 (71.43 %) OSPF 2 5 (71.43 %) BGP 2 5 (71.43 %) EIGRP 2 5 (71.43 %) RIP 3 1 (14.29 %) VPN 3 1 (14.29 %) MPLS 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco PIX	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Design Engineer 1 3 (42.86 %) Infrastructure Specialist 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Specialist 2 2 (28.57 %) Network Design Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) Network Infrastructure Specialist 2 2 (28.57 %) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Logistics	Qualifications 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (71.43 %) CCNP 2 5 (71.43 %) CCNA 3 3 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) CCDP 4 1 (14.29 %) CCIP
Vendors 1 6 (85.71 %) Cisco