Bournemouth Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Bournemouth 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire 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 Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon 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 Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate 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 Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth 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 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 Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire 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 Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall 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 Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	5
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	8	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	32.00 %	54.90 %
Daily rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£291
Average daily rate	£324	£315
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£310
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£22.60
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£23.18
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.67	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.15	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Operating Systems Bournemouth
Matching contract IT job ads	25	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	11	27
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£349
Average daily rate	£339	£372
% change on same period last year	-9.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.75	£27.82
Average hourly rate	£21.88	£28.63
% change on same period last year	-23.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£29.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows Dorset

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 Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Bournemouth region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 6 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 3 4 (25.00 %) SQL 3 4 (25.00 %) C# 4 3 (18.75 %) AIX 4 3 (18.75 %) Solaris 4 3 (18.75 %) LDAP 4 3 (18.75 %) Client/Server 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (12.50 %) Banking 5 2 (12.50 %) Korn 5 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere 5 2 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (12.50 %) AS400

5 2 (12.50 %) MQSeries 5 2 (12.50 %) Military 5 2 (12.50 %) Intranet 5 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ 5 2 (12.50 %) AutoSys 5 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 5 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 5 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe 5 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 5 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 5 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (12.50 %) CA 5 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 5 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (12.50 %) MCSE

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 (12.50 %) WebSphere 1 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 1 2 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) MQSeries 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ 1 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 1 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (6.250 %) IIS 2 1 (6.250 %) Apache 2 1 (6.250 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) LDAP 2 2 (12.50 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) DTS	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Banking 1 2 (12.50 %) Military 2 1 (6.250 %) Aerospace 2 1 (6.250 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Change Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Integration Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Graduate 4 1 (6.250 %) Software Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Graduate Software Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Graduate Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL DBA 4 1 (6.250 %) Embedded Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) DBA 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) Client/Server 2 2 (12.50 %) AS400 2 2 (12.50 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 6 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 3 (18.75 %) AIX 2 3 (18.75 %) Solaris 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (6.250 %) Content Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (25.00 %) SQL 1 4 (25.00 %) C# 2 2 (12.50 %) Korn 2 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 2 2 (12.50 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (12.50 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) CA 2 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 3 1 (6.250 %) Progress