Oxfordshire Network Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Lowestoft Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sandbach Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.331 %	0.000 %
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	£209	£289
% change on same period last year	-27.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£10.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.07	£21.06
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	604	562
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.850 %	0.568 %
Daily rates quoted	159	99
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£297
Average daily rate	£302	£318
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	98	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.94	£16.23
Average hourly rate	£19.08	£17.44
% change on same period last year	+9.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.22	£18.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
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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 Network Support 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 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 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 Support within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Network Support 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 in their job title.

1 6 (42.86 %) Windows 1 6 (42.86 %) MS Excel 1 6 (42.86 %) Microsoft 1 6 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 1 6 (42.86 %) Service Delivery 2 5 (35.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (35.71 %) CCNA 3 4 (28.57 %) Internet 4 3 (21.43 %) Time Management 4 3 (21.43 %) Video Conferencing 4 3 (21.43 %) ISA Server 4 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (21.43 %) Education 4 3 (21.43 %) MCP 4 3 (21.43 %) Cisco

4 3 (21.43 %) Broadband 4 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (21.43 %) MCSE 5 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 2 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (14.29 %) DNS 5 2 (14.29 %) Statistics 5 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 6 1 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (7.143 %) Firewall 6 1 (7.143 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (7.143 %) SLA 6 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Network Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 6 (42.86 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (28.57 %) Internet 2 3 (21.43 %) Broadband 3 2 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (14.29 %) DNS 4 1 (7.143 %) WAN 4 1 (7.143 %) DHCP 4 1 (7.143 %) Firewall 4 1 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Education 2 1 (7.143 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (14.29 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 6 (42.86 %) Windows 1 6 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.143 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (42.86 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (21.43 %) Time Management	Qualifications 1 5 (35.71 %) CCNA 1 5 (35.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) MCP 2 3 (21.43 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (21.43 %) ISA Server 2 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 3 (21.43 %) Cisco 3 1 (7.143 %) Citrix 3 1 (7.143 %) CheckPoint