Oxfordshire WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 WAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	27
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	31	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	26.05 %	19.30 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£317
Average daily rate	£382	£333
% change on same period last year	+14.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.60	£36.22
Average hourly rate	£20.90	£39.11
% change on same period last year	-46.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.20	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.32	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-15.75 %
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 %
WAN 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.

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.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN 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 WAN across the Oxfordshire region.

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAN 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 WAN 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	+11	26	£382	-4.46 %
Bicester	-	3	-	-

WAN South East

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 41 (89.13 %) LAN 2 32 (69.57 %) Windows 3 21 (45.65 %) Cisco 4 19 (41.30 %) ITIL 5 15 (32.61 %) TCP/IP 6 14 (30.43 %) Active Directory 6 14 (30.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 12 (26.09 %) Windows NT 7 12 (26.09 %) SQL Server 8 11 (23.91 %) Microsoft 9 10 (21.74 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 9 (19.57 %) IP Telephony 10 9 (19.57 %) Service Management 10 9 (19.57 %) Windows Server 2003 10 9 (19.57 %) Cisco Certification

10 9 (19.57 %) Microsoft Certification 10 9 (19.57 %) Oracle 10 9 (19.57 %) MS Excel 11 8 (17.39 %) Linux 11 8 (17.39 %) SharePoint 11 8 (17.39 %) MS Exchange 11 8 (17.39 %) SMS 11 8 (17.39 %) SQL Server 2000 12 7 (15.22 %) SAN 12 7 (15.22 %) Citrix 12 7 (15.22 %) IBM 12 7 (15.22 %) MCP 13 6 (13.04 %) Telecoms 13 6 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 13 6 (13.04 %) DNS

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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 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 (2.174 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 14 (30.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (21.74 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (17.39 %) SharePoint 3 8 (17.39 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (2.174 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (2.174 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 9 (19.57 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 41 (89.13 %) LAN 2 15 (32.61 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (19.57 %) IP Telephony 4 8 (17.39 %) SMS 5 7 (15.22 %) SAN 6 6 (13.04 %) DNS 7 5 (10.87 %) VPN 7 5 (10.87 %) Firewall 8 4 (8.696 %) Internet 8 4 (8.696 %) DHCP 9 3 (6.522 %) VoIP 9 3 (6.522 %) ADSL 10 2 (4.348 %) PBX 10 2 (4.348 %) PSTN 10 2 (4.348 %) Ethernet 10 2 (4.348 %) IPCC 10 2 (4.348 %) Cisco IOS 11 1 (2.174 %) LDAP 11 1 (2.174 %) VLAN 11 1 (2.174 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (26.09 %) SQL Server 2 8 (17.39 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (10.87 %) DB2 UDB 3 5 (10.87 %) BusinessObjects 3 5 (10.87 %) DB2 3 5 (10.87 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (2.174 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 6 (13.04 %) Telecoms 2 4 (8.696 %) Government 2 4 (8.696 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 12 (26.09 %) 2nd Line Support 2 11 (23.91 %) Analyst 3 8 (17.39 %) Support Technician 4 7 (15.22 %) Systems Engineer 5 6 (13.04 %) Support Analyst 5 6 (13.04 %) Cisco Engineer 6 4 (8.696 %) Data Analyst 6 4 (8.696 %) Network Engineer 6 4 (8.696 %) IT Manager 6 4 (8.696 %) Solutions Analyst 7 3 (6.522 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (6.522 %) 3rd Line Support 8 2 (4.348 %) Service Manager 8 2 (4.348 %) Project Manager 8 2 (4.348 %) Technical Support 8 2 (4.348 %) Cisco Support 8 2 (4.348 %) Network Support 8 2 (4.348 %) Support Manager 8 2 (4.348 %) IT Support Manager 8 2 (4.348 %) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.348 %) Blackberry 1 2 (4.348 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.174 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 32 (69.57 %) Windows 2 12 (26.09 %) Windows NT 3 9 (19.57 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (17.39 %) Linux 5 6 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (13.04 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (41.30 %) ITIL 2 9 (19.57 %) Service Management 3 5 (10.87 %) Migration 3 5 (10.87 %) Data Management 4 4 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (8.696 %) Resource Management 4 4 (8.696 %) Data Migration 5 2 (4.348 %) Data Security 5 2 (4.348 %) PRINCE 5 2 (4.348 %) Project Management 5 2 (4.348 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.174 %) ITSM 6 1 (2.174 %) Software Testing 6 1 (2.174 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.174 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (10.87 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (19.57 %) Cisco Certification 1 9 (19.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (15.22 %) MCP 3 4 (8.696 %) MCSE 4 3 (6.522 %) CCNA 5 2 (4.348 %) MCSA 6 1 (2.174 %) CCNP 6 1 (2.174 %) CCVP 6 1 (2.174 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.348 %) SLA
System Software 1 14 (30.43 %) Active Directory 2 3 (6.522 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (4.348 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (4.348 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (2.174 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (2.174 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 21 (45.65 %) Cisco 2 11 (23.91 %) Microsoft 3 9 (19.57 %) Oracle 4 7 (15.22 %) IBM 4 7 (15.22 %) Citrix 5 5 (10.87 %) Business Objects 5 5 (10.87 %) Red Hat 6 4 (8.696 %) CheckPoint 7 3 (6.522 %) SAP 8 2 (4.348 %) Siemens 9 1 (2.174 %) VERITAS 9 1 (2.174 %) Lotus 9 1 (2.174 %) Symantec 9 1 (2.174 %) Remedy