Oxfordshire WLAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless LAN (WLAN) 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 WLAN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Dorset East of England England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent London Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Slough South East South West Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	46
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.840 %	2.632 %
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	£340	£357
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£33.67
% change on same period last year	-17.40 %
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 %
WLAN 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 WLAN 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 WLAN 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 WLAN across the Oxfordshire region.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) LAN 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) CCIE 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) Wireless

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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 WLAN 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 WLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) LAN 1 1 (100.00 %) Wireless	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco Engineer 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco Network Engineer
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) CCIE 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco