Aberdeen Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Aylesbury Ayrshire Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Keighley Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	12
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	20	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	25.64 %	25.81 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£130	-
Average daily rate	£130	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£130	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£227	£257
% change on same period last year	-11.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.57	£12.90
Average hourly rate	£22.29	£13.80
% change on same period last year	+61.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£14.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.30	£17.15
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
Operating Systems Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	78	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£144	£414
Average daily rate	£144	£417
% change on same period last year	-65.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£144	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.94	£12.74
Average hourly rate	£21.18	£13.65
% change on same period last year	+55.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.41	£14.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows XP Scotland

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.

Windows XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Windows XP 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 Windows XP.

1 39 (100.00 %) Windows 2 24 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2003 3 23 (58.97 %) Windows 2000 4 19 (48.72 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 16 (41.03 %) MS Office 5 16 (41.03 %) Active Directory 6 14 (35.90 %) Microsoft 7 13 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 7 13 (33.33 %) LAN 8 12 (30.77 %) MS Excel 8 12 (30.77 %) WAN 9 9 (23.08 %) Windows Vista 10 8 (20.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 8 (20.51 %) SAP 11 6 (15.38 %) MCP

11 6 (15.38 %) SLA 11 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 11 6 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 11 6 (15.38 %) Telecoms 12 5 (12.82 %) Workflow 12 5 (12.82 %) Education 12 5 (12.82 %) DNS 12 5 (12.82 %) TCP/IP 12 5 (12.82 %) DHCP 13 4 (10.26 %) Windows NT 13 4 (10.26 %) Client/Server 13 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 13 4 (10.26 %) Intranet 13 4 (10.26 %) Internet 14 3 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Windows XP 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 Windows XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 13 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (20.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 16 (41.03 %) MS Office 2 12 (30.77 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 2 (5.128 %) Great Plains 2 1 (2.564 %) MAXIMO	Communications & Networking 1 13 (33.33 %) LAN 2 12 (30.77 %) WAN 3 5 (12.82 %) DNS 3 5 (12.82 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (12.82 %) DHCP 4 4 (10.26 %) Intranet 4 4 (10.26 %) Internet 5 3 (7.692 %) SAN 5 3 (7.692 %) SMS 6 1 (2.564 %) Extranet 6 1 (2.564 %) VPN 6 1 (2.564 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server	General 1 6 (15.38 %) Telecoms 2 5 (12.82 %) Education 3 1 (2.564 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 19 (48.72 %) Analyst 2 9 (23.08 %) Desktop Support 2 9 (23.08 %) Support Analyst 2 9 (23.08 %) 2nd Line Support 3 8 (20.51 %) Server Support 4 6 (15.38 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Engineer 6 3 (7.692 %) Server Engineer 6 3 (7.692 %) Server Support Engineer 6 3 (7.692 %) Windows Server Engineer 6 3 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 6 3 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 3 (7.692 %) 1st Line Support 6 3 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) Server Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) Desktop Analyst 7 2 (5.128 %) Server Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.26 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.564 %) French Language 2 1 (2.564 %) PDA 2 1 (2.564 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.564 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 39 (100.00 %) Windows 2 24 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2003 3 23 (58.97 %) Windows 2000 4 19 (48.72 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 9 (23.08 %) Windows Vista 6 4 (10.26 %) Windows NT 7 3 (7.692 %) UNIX 8 1 (2.564 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.82 %) Workflow 2 3 (7.692 %) Migration 3 1 (2.564 %) Problem Management 3 1 (2.564 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (2.564 %) Service Management 3 1 (2.564 %) Quality Management
Qualifications 1 6 (15.38 %) MCP 1 6 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 3 3 (7.692 %) CCNA 3 3 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (5.128 %) Degree 5 1 (2.564 %) CNA 5 1 (2.564 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (15.38 %) SLA
System Software 1 16 (41.03 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (7.692 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (5.128 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (2.564 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (2.564 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (2.564 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 14 (35.90 %) Microsoft 2 8 (20.51 %) SAP 3 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 4 3 (7.692 %) VMware 4 3 (7.692 %) Cisco 4 3 (7.692 %) HP 4 3 (7.692 %) Dell 5 2 (5.128 %) IBM 5 2 (5.128 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.564 %) Altiris 6 1 (2.564 %) Novell 6 1 (2.564 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.564 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.564 %) Oracle