Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Basingstoke region.

 Microsoft Windows
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank312
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads1940105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke12.84 %26.67 %22.48 %
As % of the Operating Systems category67.86 %85.11 %69.54 %
Daily rates quoted6633
Average daily rate£338£438£356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.85 %+22.75 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£356£280
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£460£525£440
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£323
% change year-on-year
--6.970 %
Hourly rates quoted11131
Average hourly rate£24.50£31.50£16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22 %+90.90 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£31.50£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£31.50£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.75£16.50£16.50
% change year-on-year
-10.60 %-
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2847151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke18.92 %31.33 %32.33 %
Daily rates quoted81045
Average daily rate£300£425£355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41 %+19.71 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£286£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£460£525£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted12141
Average hourly rate£24.50£31.50£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22 %+40.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£6.50£31.50£11.52
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£31.50£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Windows HampshireWindows
Hampshire

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.

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Windows Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Basingstoke Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Basingstoke Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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.

115 (31.91 %)Active Directory
213 (27.66 %)Windows Server 2003
213 (27.66 %)MS Office
39 (19.15 %)Linux
48 (17.02 %)SQL
48 (17.02 %)SQL Server
48 (17.02 %)Microsoft
57 (14.89 %)Windows XP
57 (14.89 %)Degree
66 (12.77 %)Security Cleared
66 (12.77 %)MySQL
66 (12.77 %)Java
75 (10.64 %)XML
75 (10.64 %)UNIX
75 (10.64 %)Software Testing
84 (8.511 %)Subversion
84 (8.511 %)Workflow
84 (8.511 %)Education
84 (8.511 %)Government
84 (8.511 %)Hibernate
84 (8.511 %)ITIL
84 (8.511 %)OO
84 (8.511 %)Swing
84 (8.511 %)JUnit
84 (8.511 %).NET
84 (8.511 %)Java RMI
84 (8.511 %)J2SE
84 (8.511 %)MS Excel
84 (8.511 %)Eclipse
84 (8.511 %)OOD

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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.

Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (10.64 %)XML
24 (8.511 %)Hibernate
24 (8.511 %)Swing
24 (8.511 %).NET
24 (8.511 %)Java RMI
24 (8.511 %)J2SE
24 (8.511 %).NET Framework
24 (8.511 %)WPF
24 (8.511 %)WF
24 (8.511 %)LINQ
31 (2.128 %)Application Packaging
31 (2.128 %)WCF
31 (2.128 %)CSS
31 (2.128 %)XHTML
31 (2.128 %)MFC
31 (2.128 %)NHibernate
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (6.383 %)MS Exchange
22 (4.255 %)WebLogic
22 (4.255 %)Apache
31 (2.128 %)Exchange Server 2003
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (27.66 %)MS Office
24 (8.511 %)MS Excel
24 (8.511 %)Quicktime
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (4.255 %)TETRA
12 (4.255 %)Wireless
12 (4.255 %)LAN
12 (4.255 %)SMS
21 (2.128 %)TCP/IP
21 (2.128 %)Intranet
21 (2.128 %)Internet
21 (2.128 %)Extranet
21 (2.128 %)Firewall
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
18 (17.02 %)SQL Server
26 (12.77 %)MySQL
32 (4.255 %)Data Mining
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (8.511 %)Subversion
14 (8.511 %)JUnit
14 (8.511 %)Eclipse
23 (6.383 %)ProC
31 (2.128 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
31 (2.128 %)Dreamweaver
31 (2.128 %)Visual Studio
31 (2.128 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (8.511 %)Education
14 (8.511 %)Government
22 (4.255 %)Pensions
22 (4.255 %)Telecoms
22 (4.255 %)Health
31 (2.128 %)Finance
31 (2.128 %)Local Government
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111 (23.40 %)Analyst
29 (19.15 %)Developer
34 (8.511 %)Java Developer
34 (8.511 %)Support Engineer
34 (8.511 %)Test Analyst
34 (8.511 %)IT Technician
34 (8.511 %)Java Swing Developer
43 (6.383 %)Service Analyst
43 (6.383 %).NET Developer
43 (6.383 %)Service Desk Analyst
43 (6.383 %)Integration Engineer
52 (4.255 %)Technical Engineer
52 (4.255 %)Windows Server Engineer
52 (4.255 %)Server Engineer
52 (4.255 %)C# Developer
52 (4.255 %)Technical Support Engineer
52 (4.255 %)Test Engineer
52 (4.255 %)Network Technician
52 (4.255 %)Applications Developer
52 (4.255 %)Support Technician
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (8.511 %)Computer Science
22 (4.255 %)NHS
31 (2.128 %)W3C
31 (2.128 %)Blackberry
31 (2.128 %)Clustering
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (27.66 %)Windows Server 2003
29 (19.15 %)Linux
37 (14.89 %)Windows XP
45 (10.64 %)UNIX
53 (6.383 %)Windows Vista
53 (6.383 %)Windows 7
53 (6.383 %)Windows Server 2008
53 (6.383 %)Red Hat Linux
62 (4.255 %)Windows 2000
62 (4.255 %)HPUX
62 (4.255 %)Solaris
62 (4.255 %)MVS
71 (2.128 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
71 (2.128 %)Windows 2000 Server
71 (2.128 %)Fedora
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (10.64 %)Software Testing
24 (8.511 %)Workflow
24 (8.511 %)ITIL
24 (8.511 %)OO
24 (8.511 %)OOD
24 (8.511 %)Unit Testing
32 (4.255 %)Validation
32 (4.255 %)Migration
41 (2.128 %)Test Scripting
41 (2.128 %)MVC
41 (2.128 %)Software Engineering
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (17.02 %)SQL
26 (12.77 %)Java
33 (6.383 %)Perl
33 (6.383 %)C#
33 (6.383 %)T-SQL
41 (2.128 %)PHP5
41 (2.128 %)Shell Script
41 (2.128 %)C
41 (2.128 %)PHP
41 (2.128 %)VBScript
41 (2.128 %)VB
41 (2.128 %)C++
41 (2.128 %)JavaScript
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (14.89 %)Degree
26 (12.77 %)Security Cleared
34 (8.511 %)SC Cleared
43 (6.383 %)ISEB
52 (4.255 %)ISTQB
61 (2.128 %)BC Cleared
61 (2.128 %)DV Cleared
61 (2.128 %)CCNA
61 (2.128 %)Cisco Certification
61 (2.128 %)Microsoft Certification
61 (2.128 %)MCP
61 (2.128 %)MCSE
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.128 %)WCAG
11 (2.128 %)WAI
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (31.91 %)Active Directory
21 (2.128 %)VMware Workstation
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (6.383 %)SCCM
13 (6.383 %)SCOM
22 (4.255 %)MOM
31 (2.128 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
31 (2.128 %)OpenView Configuration Management
Basingstoke IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (17.02 %)Microsoft
23 (6.383 %)Red Hat
32 (4.255 %)Sony
32 (4.255 %)VMware
32 (4.255 %)Oracle
32 (4.255 %)SAP
32 (4.255 %)HP
32 (4.255 %)Sun
41 (2.128 %)Cisco
41 (2.128 %)CheckPoint
41 (2.128 %)Citrix
41 (2.128 %)Motorola
41 (2.128 %)McAfee