Alderley Edge Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Alderley Edge 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 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
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	£317	£310
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
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	£20.15	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Operating Systems Alderley Edge
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
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	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
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	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows Cheshire

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
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67 %) OO 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET

2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 2 1 (33.33 %) OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) e-GIF 2 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 2 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (33.33 %) TDD 2 1 (33.33 %) Subversion

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Subversion
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Java Programmer 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Web Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Deskside Support 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 1 1 (33.33 %) Informatics 1 1 (33.33 %) Chemistry 1 1 (33.33 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) e-GIF 2 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (33.33 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C# 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) WCAG 1 1 (33.33 %) WAI
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft