Banbury Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Banbury 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne 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 Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury 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 Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow 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 Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lichfield 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 Shields 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 Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East 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 Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales 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 Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	4
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£270	-
Average daily rate	£285	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£309
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
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	£20.44	£20.99
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Operating Systems Banbury
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£270	-
Average daily rate	£285	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
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	£22.51	£22.79
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Windows Oxfordshire

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 Banbury 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 Banbury region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Banbury region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Banbury 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 3 (50.00 %) C# 1 3 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows CE 2 2 (33.33 %) GPRS 2 2 (33.33 %) GSM 2 2 (33.33 %) UMTS 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) C++ 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 2 (33.33 %) XML 2 2 (33.33 %) MCP

2 2 (33.33 %) MCAD 2 2 (33.33 %) MCSD 2 2 (33.33 %) WinForms 2 2 (33.33 %) .NET 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (33.33 %) WCF 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Automotive 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (16.67 %) VB 3 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Banbury 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 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 2 (33.33 %) XML 1 2 (33.33 %) WinForms 1 2 (33.33 %) .NET 1 2 (33.33 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) GPRS 1 2 (33.33 %) GSM 1 2 (33.33 %) UMTS 1 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) C# Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) WinForms Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) C++/C# Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) C++ Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (16.67 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET Developer	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows CE 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows Mobile
Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) C# 2 2 (33.33 %) C++ 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (16.67 %) VB 3 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (33.33 %) MCP 1 2 (33.33 %) MCAD 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSD
System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (16.67 %) Agresso