The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 21 May 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 Buckinghamshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 38 46 35
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 36 28 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 4.444% 2.789% 4.084%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.18% 10.00% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 9
Average daily rate £233 £160 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.31% +60.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £99 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £232 £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £205 £225
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 19
Average hourly rate £13.50 £12.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £10.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £16.75 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.88
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +8.73%
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
170 280 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 20.99% 27.89% 24.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 109 80
Average daily rate £300 £300 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 32 39
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £10.45 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £16.20 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows XP
South East

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Windows XP Daily Rate Histogram

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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +19 22 £240 +50.00%
High Wycombe +1 10 £135 -31.64%
Aylesbury -10 3 - -
Marlow - 1 - -
Windows XP
South East

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 58 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (60.34%) Windows 7
3 32 (55.17%) MS Office
3 32 (55.17%) Active Directory
4 29 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 17 (29.31%) TCP/IP
6 15 (25.86%) Citrix
7 14 (24.14%) ITIL
8 13 (22.41%) VPN
9 11 (18.97%) MS Excel
9 11 (18.97%) Remedy
9 11 (18.97%) Finance
9 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (17.24%) MS Exchange
10 10 (17.24%) SLA
11 9 (15.52%) Exchange Server 2007
11 9 (15.52%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (15.52%) PDA
11 9 (15.52%) Windows Vista
12 8 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (13.79%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (13.79%) Broadband
12 8 (13.79%) Lotus Notes
12 8 (13.79%) SAP
12 8 (13.79%) 3G
12 8 (13.79%) Lotus
13 7 (12.07%) Exchange Server 2003
14 6 (10.34%) Symantec
14 6 (10.34%) Internet

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (1.724%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.724%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 10 (17.24%) MS Exchange
2 9 (15.52%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (15.52%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (13.79%) Lotus Notes
4 7 (12.07%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.724%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 32 (55.17%) MS Office
2 11 (18.97%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.724%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.31%) TCP/IP
2 13 (22.41%) VPN
3 8 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (13.79%) Broadband
3 8 (13.79%) 3G
4 6 (10.34%) Internet
5 5 (8.621%) DNS
5 5 (8.621%) DHCP
5 5 (8.621%) Firewall
6 2 (3.448%) LAN
6 2 (3.448%) WAN
7 1 (1.724%) LDAP
7 1 (1.724%) SAN
7 1 (1.724%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (6.897%) MSI
2 2 (3.448%) AdminStudio
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 4 (6.897%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Service Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Support Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Hardware Engineer
5 5 (8.621%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.897%) EMC Engineer
6 4 (6.897%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (6.897%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.897%) Applications Packager
7 3 (5.172%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.172%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.172%) Help Desk Support Analyst
7 3 (5.172%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (5.172%) Help Desk Support
8 2 (3.448%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.448%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.448%) IT Support
8 2 (3.448%) Help Desk Engineer
8 2 (3.448%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) PDA
2 4 (6.897%) EqualLogic
2 4 (6.897%) Blackberry
3 3 (5.172%) EPoS
3 3 (5.172%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.448%) iPhone
5 1 (1.724%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (60.34%) Windows 7
3 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (15.52%) Windows Vista
6 5 (8.621%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.724%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) ITIL
2 5 (8.621%) Migration
3 2 (3.448%) Incident Management
4 1 (1.724%) DNA
4 1 (1.724%) Service Management
4 1 (1.724%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.897%) SQL
2 1 (1.724%) VBScript
2 1 (1.724%) VB
2 1 (1.724%) VBA
2 1 (1.724%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (8.621%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.897%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.448%) MCDST
5 1 (1.724%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.724%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.897%) XenApp
2 4 (6.897%) XenDesktop
2 4 (6.897%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (3.448%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.724%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.724%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.724%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.724%) vSphere
4 1 (1.724%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (3.448%) SCCM
2 2 (3.448%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.724%) Unicenter
3 1 (1.724%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (1.724%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 29 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.86%) Citrix
3 11 (18.97%) Remedy
4 8 (13.79%) SAP
4 8 (13.79%) Lotus
5 6 (10.34%) Symantec
5 6 (10.34%) Sophos
5 6 (10.34%) HP
5 6 (10.34%) Dell
6 5 (8.621%) EMC
7 4 (6.897%) VMware
7 4 (6.897%) Sun
8 2 (3.448%) Cisco
9 1 (1.724%) CA
9 1 (1.724%) AppSense
9 1 (1.724%) Veeam
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
They require Service Desk Analysts to cover day and night shifts. The Service Desk Analyst will be responsible for providing 1st and 2nd line support and services for...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £13 - £15 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
My client require a Desktop Support Analyst for a contract role in Aylesbury due to start ASAP! You will be providing Desktop support on hardware, Software and Networks...
Pertemps IT
Rate: £12.50 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Aylesbury, Thames Valley
You must have a thorough understanding of Operating Systems as well as Windows XP/7 and MS Office, coupled with a basic understanding of software installations and Desktop/...
Rate: £21 - £22000 per annum + pro rata
Posted: 11 May 2013
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Austin Fraser are currently looking to recruit an experienced EMC Hardware engineer for a Managed Services provider based in High Wycombe. This is a 6 month contract to...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + Contract
Posted: 16 May 2013