Birmingham Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Birmingham 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bathgate Beccles Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexley Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenock Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverurie Ipswich Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	11
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	29	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	36.25 %	31.69 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£177	£314
Average daily rate	£190	£351
% change on same period last year	-45.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£203	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£220	£267
% change on same period last year	-17.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.37	£13.81
Average hourly rate	£12.30	£14.57
% change on same period last year	-15.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.24	£15.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.00	£16.35
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Operating Systems Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	80	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.265 %
Daily rates quoted	18	33
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£333
Average daily rate	£307	£355
% change on same period last year	-13.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.88	£18.66
Average hourly rate	£14.90	£19.82
% change on same period last year	-24.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.91	£20.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Windows XP West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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 Birmingham region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 54 (100.00 %) Windows 2 28 (51.85 %) Active Directory 3 26 (48.15 %) Windows 2000 4 22 (40.74 %) Microsoft 5 20 (37.04 %) Windows Server 2003 6 18 (33.33 %) MS Office 7 15 (27.78 %) MS Exchange 8 11 (20.37 %) Citrix 9 10 (18.52 %) MS Excel 9 10 (18.52 %) Windows NT 10 7 (12.96 %) Migration 10 7 (12.96 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 7 (12.96 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 7 (12.96 %) NetWare 11 6 (11.11 %) LAN

12 5 (9.259 %) WAN 12 5 (9.259 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 5 (9.259 %) VMware 13 4 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 4 (7.407 %) VMware Infrastructure 13 4 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 13 4 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 13 4 (7.407 %) Client/Server 13 4 (7.407 %) SQL 13 4 (7.407 %) ITIL 13 4 (7.407 %) NHS 13 4 (7.407 %) Firewall 14 3 (5.556 %) MCP 14 3 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 14 3 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2000

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 15 (27.78 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (9.259 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.852 %) GroupWise 5 1 (1.852 %) IIS 5 1 (1.852 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 18 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 10 (18.52 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) Cerner Millennium	Communications & Networking 1 6 (11.11 %) LAN 2 5 (9.259 %) WAN 3 4 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (7.407 %) Firewall 4 2 (3.704 %) DHCP 4 2 (3.704 %) DNS 5 1 (1.852 %) SAN 5 1 (1.852 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.852 %) OSPF 5 1 (1.852 %) BGP 5 1 (1.852 %) VPN 5 1 (1.852 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (1.852 %) Cisco IOS 5 1 (1.852 %) DECT
General 1 2 (3.704 %) Government 2 1 (1.852 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 21 (38.89 %) Analyst 2 15 (27.78 %) Desktop Support 3 13 (24.07 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (18.52 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 8 (14.81 %) 2nd Line Support 5 8 (14.81 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 8 (14.81 %) Desktop Analyst 6 7 (12.96 %) Applications Packager 7 4 (7.407 %) 1st Line Support 7 4 (7.407 %) Helpdesk Support 8 3 (5.556 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 8 3 (5.556 %) Helpdesk Technician 8 3 (5.556 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 3 (5.556 %) Support Engineer 8 3 (5.556 %) Support Technician 9 2 (3.704 %) Network Engineer 9 2 (3.704 %) Field Engineer 9 2 (3.704 %) PC Support 10 1 (1.852 %) Cisco Network Engineer 10 1 (1.852 %) Project Leader
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.407 %) Client/Server 1 4 (7.407 %) NHS 2 2 (3.704 %) Thin Client 2 2 (3.704 %) Clustering 2 2 (3.704 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.852 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.852 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 54 (100.00 %) Windows 2 26 (48.15 %) Windows 2000 3 20 (37.04 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (18.52 %) Windows NT 5 7 (12.96 %) NetWare 5 7 (12.96 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.852 %) AIX 7 1 (1.852 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.852 %) Linux 7 1 (1.852 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (12.96 %) Migration 2 4 (7.407 %) ITIL 3 2 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (3.704 %) System Testing 3 2 (3.704 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.852 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (7.407 %) SQL 2 1 (1.852 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (5.556 %) MCP 3 2 (3.704 %) MCSE 3 2 (3.704 %) MCSA 3 2 (3.704 %) CCNA 3 2 (3.704 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.852 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (1.852 %) MCDST 4 1 (1.852 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.704 %) SLA 2 1 (1.852 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 28 (51.85 %) Active Directory 2 4 (7.407 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (3.704 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (3.704 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (1.852 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 7 (12.96 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.852 %) DameWare 2 1 (1.852 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 22 (40.74 %) Microsoft 2 11 (20.37 %) Citrix 3 5 (9.259 %) VMware 4 2 (3.704 %) Cerner 4 2 (3.704 %) Novell 4 2 (3.704 %) Cisco 4 2 (3.704 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.852 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.852 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.852 %) CA