Basingstoke Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Basingstoke 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Atherstone Banstead Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Beccles Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly 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 Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Esher Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	5
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	20	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	20.83 %	30.32 %
Daily rates quoted	1	9
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£369
Average daily rate	£120	£408
% change on same period last year	-70.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£140	£447
UK excluding London average daily rate	£239	£261
% change on same period last year	-8.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£18.75
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£21.88
% change on same period last year	-4.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.90	£17.02
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Operating Systems Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	96	155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.135 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	15	50
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£359
Average daily rate	£318	£381
% change on same period last year	-16.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.57	£24.93
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£26.87
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.36	£28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows XP Hampshire

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 Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

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 Basingstoke region.

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 48 (100.00 %) Windows 2 37 (77.08 %) Active Directory 3 23 (47.92 %) MS Office 4 17 (35.42 %) MS Excel 5 14 (29.17 %) ITIL 6 12 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 7 11 (22.92 %) Windows Server 2003 7 11 (22.92 %) Microsoft 8 9 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 9 6 (12.50 %) VMS 10 5 (10.42 %) Military 11 4 (8.333 %) Government 12 3 (6.250 %) Manufacturing 12 3 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 3 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification

12 3 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 12 3 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 13 2 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 2 (4.167 %) VB 13 2 (4.167 %) Citrix 13 2 (4.167 %) MS Visio 13 2 (4.167 %) Configuration Management 13 2 (4.167 %) Wireless 13 2 (4.167 %) Pro/ENGINEER 13 2 (4.167 %) Novell 13 2 (4.167 %) Validation 14 1 (2.083 %) VMware 14 1 (2.083 %) VMware Workstation 14 1 (2.083 %) Finance 14 1 (2.083 %) Backup Exec

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 Development 1 1 (2.083 %) .NET 1 1 (2.083 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 3 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 23 (47.92 %) MS Office 2 17 (35.42 %) MS Excel 3 2 (4.167 %) MS Visio 3 2 (4.167 %) Pro/ENGINEER	Business Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.167 %) Wireless 2 1 (2.083 %) LAN 2 1 (2.083 %) SMS 2 1 (2.083 %) WAN	Development Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.083 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.083 %) MSI 1 1 (2.083 %) InstallShield
General 1 5 (10.42 %) Military 2 4 (8.333 %) Government 3 3 (6.250 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (2.083 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 22 (45.83 %) 2nd Line Support 2 14 (29.17 %) Analyst 3 10 (20.83 %) Support Technician 3 10 (20.83 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 4 8 (16.67 %) Service Analyst 4 8 (16.67 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 6 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (8.333 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 3 (6.250 %) Desktop Support 7 3 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 2 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 2 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Designer 8 2 (4.167 %) Support Team Leader 8 2 (4.167 %) Team Leader 8 2 (4.167 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (4.167 %) 1st Line Support 9 1 (2.083 %) Applications Packager 9 1 (2.083 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.083 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 48 (100.00 %) Windows 2 12 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (22.92 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (12.50 %) VMS 5 2 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.083 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (29.17 %) ITIL 2 9 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (4.167 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (4.167 %) Validation 5 1 (2.083 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.083 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.167 %) VB 2 1 (2.083 %) PowerShell 2 1 (2.083 %) C++ 2 1 (2.083 %) SQL 2 1 (2.083 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 3 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.083 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.083 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) SLA
System Software 1 37 (77.08 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.083 %) VMware Workstation 2 1 (2.083 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (2.083 %) Tivoli 1 1 (2.083 %) MOM 1 1 (2.083 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (2.083 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 11 (22.92 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.167 %) Citrix 2 2 (4.167 %) Novell 3 1 (2.083 %) VMware 3 1 (2.083 %) CA