Oxfordshire WAN Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Oxfordshire region.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rochdale Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Street Surrey Swansea Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	34	22	39
Rank change year-on-year	-12 +17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	14	16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire	1.375 %	4.811 %	2.649 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	9.756 %	16.87 %	21.62 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2	1
Average daily rate	£304	£215	£260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+41.27 % -17.30 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£316	£325
% change year-on-year	+2.760 % -2.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6	6
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50	£30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- -26.22 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.75	£22.50	£22.50
% change year-on-year	-12.22 % -
All Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	41	83	74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire	14.09 %	28.52 %	12.25 %
Daily rates quoted	11	14	5
Average daily rate	£288	£340	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-15.44 % +13.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£220	£180	£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£314	£400	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£336	£340
% change year-on-year	-3.270 % -1.170 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	36	29
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£22.50	£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.11 % -18.18 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.75	£12.50	£11.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.25	£32.00	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.00	£24.00	£28.50
% change year-on-year	- -15.78 %
WAN South East

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 7 (63.64 %) Cisco 1 7 (63.64 %) Firewall 2 6 (54.55 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (45.45 %) Internet 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 5 3 (27.27 %) LAN 5 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 6 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 6 2 (18.18 %) VPN 6 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 6 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 6 2 (18.18 %) Linux 6 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel

6 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 6 2 (18.18 %) Education 6 2 (18.18 %) Cisco ASA 6 2 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX 7 1 (9.091 %) Network Security 7 1 (9.091 %) TippingPoint 7 1 (9.091 %) Blue Coat 7 1 (9.091 %) CCSE 7 1 (9.091 %) Network Design 7 1 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (9.091 %) CCSA 7 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 7 1 (9.091 %) ADSL 7 1 (9.091 %) ISDN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) CSS	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 7 (63.64 %) Firewall 2 5 (45.45 %) Internet 3 3 (27.27 %) LAN 4 2 (18.18 %) VPN 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco ASA 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (9.091 %) Network Security 5 1 (9.091 %) ADSL 5 1 (9.091 %) ISDN 5 1 (9.091 %) SSL 5 1 (9.091 %) VoIP 5 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (9.091 %) MPLS 5 1 (9.091 %) NetScreen 5 1 (9.091 %) Intranet	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Education 2 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) 1st Line Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Senior Network Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Bid Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux Support 3 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Administrator
Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) Linux 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Network Design 1 1 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C 1 1 (9.091 %) Perl 1 1 (9.091 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 3 1 (9.091 %) CCSE 3 1 (9.091 %) CCSA 3 1 (9.091 %) CCNA 3 1 (9.091 %) CCSP
System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (63.64 %) Cisco 2 6 (54.55 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (18.18 %) Juniper 3 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 4 1 (9.091 %) TippingPoint 4 1 (9.091 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (9.091 %) Intel 4 1 (9.091 %) Nokia