The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank - 24 25
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 0 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke - 3.209% 3.333%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 8.571% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £90 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £213
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.63 £14.13 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-3.53% +8.65%
All Operating Systems
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
64 70 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 32.16% 37.43% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 29
Average daily rate £400 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £90 £114
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 16
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% +10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows XP
Hampshire

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Basingstoke Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (54.55%) MS Office
4 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
5 4 (36.36%) HP
6 3 (27.27%) SLA
6 3 (27.27%) ITIL
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Moq
7 2 (18.18%) StructureMap
7 2 (18.18%) NUnit
7 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
7 2 (18.18%) MVC
7 2 (18.18%) jQuery
7 2 (18.18%) SCCM
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
7 2 (18.18%) CSS
7 2 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 2 (18.18%) .NET
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
7 2 (18.18%) IIS
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (18.18%) Dell
8 1 (9.091%) Citrix
8 1 (9.091%) McAfee
8 1 (9.091%) Microsoft

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
1 2 (18.18%) jQuery
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (18.18%) StructureMap
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) ASP
2 1 (9.091%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) NUnit
1 2 (18.18%) Moq
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Service Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Applications Support
3 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (9.091%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) McAfee
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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