Oxfordshire PC Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the PC 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 PC Support in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PC Support
Location Amersham Barry Birkenhead Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey City of London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Salford South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex Wirral Witham	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	47
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.171 %	1.115 %
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	£135	£140
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.48	£14.49
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	584	538
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.832 %	0.556 %
Daily rates quoted	149	88
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£290
Average daily rate	£308	£311
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	105
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.14	£15.80
Average hourly rate	£19.24	£16.98
% change on same period last year	+13.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.35	£18.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
PC Support 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 PC 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 PC 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 PC 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 PC Support within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 15 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
Oxford	-9	1	-	-

PC Support South East

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Novell 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSE	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) HP 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Novell 1 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS