Ayrshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Ayrshire 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	1	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	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	£227	£257
% change on same period last year	-11.57 %
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	£16.30	£17.15
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
Operating Systems Ayrshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	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 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 Ayrshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 Ayrshire region.

Windows XP
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ayrshire 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 3 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ayrshire 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 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Health	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory