Oxfordshire VPN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VPN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Cleethorpes Coventry Cramlington Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	43
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.723 %	5.263 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£227	£300
Average daily rate	£263	£300
% change on same period last year	-12.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£324
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.30	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£22.30	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+48.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.30	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.94	£22.12
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	119	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.157 %	0.121 %
Daily rates quoted	18	23
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£305
Average daily rate	£307	£324
% change on same period last year	-5.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.98	£31.32
Average hourly rate	£20.39	£33.50
% change on same period last year	-39.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.79	£35.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
VPN 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 VPN 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 VPN 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 VPN across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 VPN 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 VPN across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 job ads citing VPN within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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	+8	5	£250	-16.66 %
Bicester	-	1	£290	-

VPN South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing VPN 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 VPN.

1 8 (61.54 %) Windows 2 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 2 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 3 5 (38.46 %) WAN 3 5 (38.46 %) LAN 3 5 (38.46 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (30.77 %) Terminal Services 4 4 (30.77 %) Disaster Recovery 4 4 (30.77 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (30.77 %) Windows XP 4 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (23.08 %) Firewall 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (23.08 %) ISA Server 5 3 (23.08 %) Blackberry

5 3 (23.08 %) ADSL 5 3 (23.08 %) MS Excel 5 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 5 3 (23.08 %) SQL 5 3 (23.08 %) DHCP 5 3 (23.08 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (23.08 %) DNS 5 3 (23.08 %) VERITAS 5 3 (23.08 %) Citrix 6 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (15.38 %) SAN 6 2 (15.38 %) Lotus 6 2 (15.38 %) VoIP 6 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 6 2 (15.38 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing VPN 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 VPN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (38.46 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (15.38 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (7.692 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 3 (23.08 %) MS Excel 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) Remedy ITSM	Communications & Networking 1 5 (38.46 %) LAN 1 5 (38.46 %) WAN 2 3 (23.08 %) DHCP 2 3 (23.08 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (23.08 %) DNS 2 3 (23.08 %) ADSL 2 3 (23.08 %) Firewall 3 2 (15.38 %) SAN 3 2 (15.38 %) VoIP 4 1 (7.692 %) ISDN 4 1 (7.692 %) SSL 4 1 (7.692 %) MPLS 4 1 (7.692 %) PPTP 4 1 (7.692 %) Intrusion Detection 4 1 (7.692 %) Cisco IPT 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.692 %) Informix 2 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 6 (46.15 %) Analyst 2 5 (38.46 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (15.38 %) Technical Support 3 2 (15.38 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (15.38 %) Systems Manager 3 2 (15.38 %) Technical Analyst 3 2 (15.38 %) IT Support Analyst 3 2 (15.38 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Data Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Data Centre Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (7.692 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (23.08 %) Blackberry 2 2 (15.38 %) Clustering 2 2 (15.38 %) PDA 3 1 (7.692 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 8 (61.54 %) Windows 2 4 (30.77 %) Windows XP 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (15.38 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (30.77 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 3 2 (15.38 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (15.38 %) CRM 3 2 (15.38 %) Data Security 3 2 (15.38 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (7.692 %) ITSM 4 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (15.38 %) MCP 1 2 (15.38 %) MCSE 1 2 (15.38 %) MCSA 1 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) SLA 1 1 (7.692 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 2 4 (30.77 %) Terminal Services 2 4 (30.77 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (23.08 %) ISA Server 4 1 (7.692 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (15.38 %) WSUS 2 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 2 3 (23.08 %) VERITAS 2 3 (23.08 %) Citrix 3 2 (15.38 %) NEC 3 2 (15.38 %) Lotus 3 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 3 2 (15.38 %) IBM 4 1 (7.692 %) Nortel 4 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (7.692 %) Symantec 4 1 (7.692 %) Remedy 4 1 (7.692 %) PeopleSoft 4 1 (7.692 %) Nokia