Oxfordshire Network Support Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Croydon Devon East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Guildford Hampshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Suffolk Surrey Telford Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	52
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.617 %	0.330 %
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	£254	£287
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-33.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.25	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.91	£24.07
% change on same period last year	-21.45 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	648	606
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.864 %	0.613 %
Daily rates quoted	128	119
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£311
Average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	144	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.70	£20.16
Average hourly rate	£20.33	£21.65
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.96	£23.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Network Support Engineer 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 Network Support Engineer across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Network Support Engineer 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 Network Support Engineer 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 Network Support Engineer 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 Network Support Engineer 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	-2	1	-	-

Network Support Engineer South East

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Network Support Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Support Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 4 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (75.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (75.00 %) Time Management 2 3 (75.00 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (75.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (75.00 %) ISA Server 2 3 (75.00 %) MCP 2 3 (75.00 %) MCSE 2 3 (75.00 %) MS Excel 2 3 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 1 (25.00 %) Statistics

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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 that cited Network Support Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (75.00 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (75.00 %) MS Excel
Miscellaneous 1 1 (25.00 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (75.00 %) Service Delivery 1 3 (75.00 %) Time Management
Qualifications 1 4 (100.00 %) CCNA 1 4 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (75.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (75.00 %) MCP 2 3 (75.00 %) MCSE	System Software 1 3 (75.00 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 3 (75.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (25.00 %) Cisco