Buckinghamshire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	331	306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.425 %	0.344 %
As % of the category below	66.07 %	65.67 %
Daily rates quoted	79	48
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£301
Average daily rate	£375	£315
% change on same period last year	+19.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£313
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	75	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.99	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£18.35	£21.21
% change on same period last year	-13.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.71	£22.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.70	£20.16
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Operating Systems Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	501	466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.643 %	0.524 %
Daily rates quoted	118	92
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£325
Average daily rate	£360	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£333
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	92
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.14	£22.49
Average hourly rate	£20.41	£23.66
% change on same period last year	-13.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.69	£24.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.74	£23.06
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
Windows South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Buckinghamshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Buckinghamshire region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Milton Keynes	-1	229	£363	+29.21 %
2	High Wycombe	0	33	-	-
3	Gerrards Cross	-	4	£260	-
3	Amersham	-1	4	£220	-
4	Aylesbury	-1	3	£325	-
5	Chalfont St Giles	-	2	-	-
5	Marlow	-6	2	£375	+64.83 %
6	Beaconsfield	-	1	-	-
6	Wycombe	-1	1	-	-

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 149 (25.34 %) Microsoft 2 127 (21.60 %) Windows NT 3 124 (21.09 %) MS Office 4 122 (20.75 %) Active Directory 5 120 (20.41 %) Government 6 106 (18.03 %) Windows 2000 7 96 (16.33 %) SQL 8 93 (15.82 %) Windows XP 9 80 (13.61 %) SQL Server 10 78 (13.27 %) Microsoft Certification 11 77 (13.10 %) Windows Server 2003 12 76 (12.93 %) .NET 13 68 (11.56 %) HP 14 66 (11.22 %) MCSE 15 55 (9.354 %) Telecoms

16 53 (9.014 %) Internet 16 53 (9.014 %) ITIL 16 53 (9.014 %) Oracle 17 51 (8.673 %) Unix 17 51 (8.673 %) Migration 18 49 (8.333 %) HTML 19 48 (8.163 %) MS Exchange 19 48 (8.163 %) Windows Vista 20 45 (7.653 %) OpenView 20 45 (7.653 %) C# 21 44 (7.483 %) OpenView Configuration Management 22 41 (6.973 %) XML 23 39 (6.633 %) Cisco 23 39 (6.633 %) OVOW 24 38 (6.463 %) DNS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 76 (12.93 %) .NET 2 49 (8.333 %) HTML 3 41 (6.973 %) XML 4 32 (5.442 %) ASP 5 22 (3.741 %) WinForms 5 22 (3.741 %) .NET Framework 6 17 (2.891 %) ASP.NET 7 13 (2.211 %) AJAX 8 12 (2.041 %) J2EE 9 9 (1.531 %) WPF 10 7 (1.190 %) JSP 11 6 (1.020 %) EJB 11 6 (1.020 %) WebSphere 11 6 (1.020 %) Spring 11 6 (1.020 %) Hibernate 12 5 (0.850 %) CSS 13 4 (0.680 %) RSS 13 4 (0.680 %) WebServices 13 4 (0.680 %) XUL 14 3 (0.510 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 48 (8.163 %) MS Exchange 2 21 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 20 (3.401 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 15 (2.551 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 11 (1.871 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 7 (1.190 %) CMS 7 4 (0.680 %) Oracle Spatial 7 4 (0.680 %) GroupWise 7 4 (0.680 %) Lotus Notes 8 3 (0.510 %) IIS 9 2 (0.340 %) SharePoint 9 2 (0.340 %) Lotus Domino 10 1 (0.170 %) Apache 10 1 (0.170 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 124 (21.09 %) MS Office 2 33 (5.612 %) MS Excel 3 11 (1.871 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (0.850 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 53 (9.014 %) Internet 2 38 (6.463 %) DNS 3 34 (5.782 %) LAN 4 33 (5.612 %) WAN 5 26 (4.422 %) SAN 6 25 (4.252 %) Intranet 7 22 (3.741 %) DHCP 8 20 (3.401 %) TCP/IP 9 15 (2.551 %) Ethernet 10 13 (2.211 %) Firewall 11 7 (1.190 %) WINS 12 6 (1.020 %) ADSL 13 5 (0.850 %) Wireless 14 4 (0.680 %) 3G 15 3 (0.510 %) LDAP 15 3 (0.510 %) GPRS 16 2 (0.340 %) VoIP 16 2 (0.340 %) VPN 16 2 (0.340 %) Network Security 16 2 (0.340 %) 2G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 80 (13.61 %) SQL Server 2 26 (4.422 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 26 (4.422 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (2.551 %) SQL Server 2000 4 11 (1.871 %) SQL Server 7 5 10 (1.701 %) Oracle 10g 6 8 (1.361 %) Oracle Reports 7 5 (0.850 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (0.340 %) MySQL 8 2 (0.340 %) DB2 8 2 (0.340 %) GIS 9 1 (0.170 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (0.170 %) DB2 UDB 9 1 (0.170 %) Informix 9 1 (0.170 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.170 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 9 (1.531 %) Ant 1 9 (1.531 %) Eclipse 2 7 (1.190 %) FrontPage 3 6 (1.020 %) Rational Rose 3 6 (1.020 %) JUnit 4 5 (0.850 %) ClearCase 5 4 (0.680 %) Visual Studio 5 4 (0.680 %) Oracle Designer 10g 5 4 (0.680 %) Subversion 5 4 (0.680 %) ClearQuest 6 3 (0.510 %) JMeter 7 2 (0.340 %) TestDirector 7 2 (0.340 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 1 (0.170 %) Dreamweaver 8 1 (0.170 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.170 %) InstallShield	General 1 120 (20.41 %) Government 2 55 (9.354 %) Telecoms 3 32 (5.442 %) Finance 4 13 (2.211 %) Pharmaceutical 5 11 (1.871 %) Legal 6 9 (1.531 %) Retail 7 4 (0.680 %) Health 8 3 (0.510 %) Back Office 9 2 (0.340 %) Manufacturing 9 2 (0.340 %) Banking 9 2 (0.340 %) Insurance 9 2 (0.340 %) Construction 10 1 (0.170 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.170 %) Pensions 10 1 (0.170 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.170 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.170 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.170 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 125 (21.26 %) Analyst 2 89 (15.14 %) Consultant 3 88 (14.97 %) Developer 4 66 (11.22 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 48 (8.163 %) Support Analyst 5 48 (8.163 %) Helpdesk Support 6 39 (6.633 %) C# Developer 7 36 (6.122 %) Architect 8 34 (5.782 %) .NET Developer 8 34 (5.782 %) Technical Consultant 9 31 (5.272 %) Support Engineer 10 26 (4.422 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 11 22 (3.741 %) 2nd Line Support 12 20 (3.401 %) Applications Developer 13 18 (3.061 %) Desktop Support 14 17 (2.891 %) Project Manager 14 17 (2.891 %) Service Analyst 14 17 (2.891 %) Team Leader 14 17 (2.891 %) Service Desk Analyst 14 17 (2.891 %) OpenView Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 20 (3.401 %) French Language 1 20 (3.401 %) German Language 2 15 (2.551 %) Dutch Language 3 7 (1.190 %) Mainframe 3 7 (1.190 %) Management Information System 4 5 (0.850 %) N-Tier 4 5 (0.850 %) Thin Client 4 5 (0.850 %) Fat Client 5 4 (0.680 %) AS400 5 4 (0.680 %) Clustering 6 3 (0.510 %) Blackberry 6 3 (0.510 %) PDA 7 1 (0.170 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.170 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.170 %) Smartcard 7 1 (0.170 %) EPoS 7 1 (0.170 %) EMV 7 1 (0.170 %) NHS 7 1 (0.170 %) PKI 7 1 (0.170 %) Smartphone
Operating Systems 1 127 (21.60 %) Windows NT 2 106 (18.03 %) Windows 2000 3 93 (15.82 %) Windows XP 4 77 (13.10 %) Windows Server 2003 5 51 (8.673 %) Unix 6 48 (8.163 %) Windows Vista 7 26 (4.422 %) Linux 8 9 (1.531 %) AIX 9 7 (1.190 %) HPUX 10 5 (0.850 %) Solaris 11 4 (0.680 %) NetWare 12 3 (0.510 %) Windows Mobile 13 1 (0.170 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 53 (9.014 %) ITIL 2 51 (8.673 %) Migration 3 29 (4.932 %) ITSM 4 21 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 5 20 (3.401 %) Project Management 6 18 (3.061 %) Workflow 7 14 (2.381 %) SSADM 8 13 (2.211 %) Extreme Programming 8 13 (2.211 %) Agile Software Development 8 13 (2.211 %) Requirements Analysis 9 12 (2.041 %) OOD 10 11 (1.871 %) RUP 10 11 (1.871 %) UML 11 10 (1.701 %) DSDM 12 9 (1.531 %) RAD 13 7 (1.190 %) Business Intelligence 13 7 (1.190 %) Disaster Recovery 13 7 (1.190 %) Content Management 13 7 (1.190 %) Test Scripting 14 6 (1.020 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 96 (16.33 %) SQL 2 45 (7.653 %) C# 3 32 (5.442 %) VB.NET 4 25 (4.252 %) VB 4 25 (4.252 %) JavaScript 5 23 (3.912 %) Java 6 22 (3.741 %) C++ 7 19 (3.231 %) VB6 8 12 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 9 10 (1.701 %) VBScript 9 10 (1.701 %) C 10 7 (1.190 %) PHP 11 5 (0.850 %) XAML 12 4 (0.680 %) VC++ 12 4 (0.680 %) PL/SQL 13 1 (0.170 %) Shell Script 13 1 (0.170 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 78 (13.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 66 (11.22 %) MCSE 3 29 (4.932 %) CNE 3 29 (4.932 %) Novell Certification 4 10 (1.701 %) MCP 5 8 (1.361 %) MCDST 6 7 (1.190 %) SCSP 6 7 (1.190 %) A+ Certification 7 5 (0.850 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 5 (0.850 %) Degree 7 5 (0.850 %) Cisco Certification 8 4 (0.680 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 4 (0.680 %) CCNA 9 3 (0.510 %) CCNP 9 3 (0.510 %) CCA 9 3 (0.510 %) Citrix Certification 10 2 (0.340 %) CCDP 10 2 (0.340 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 1 (0.170 %) CCVP 11 1 (0.170 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.531 %) QA 2 8 (1.361 %) SLA	System Software 1 122 (20.75 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.850 %) ISA Server 2 5 (0.850 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 4 (0.680 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 3 (0.510 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (0.510 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.170 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.170 %) Oracle RMAN 5 1 (0.170 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 45 (7.653 %) OpenView 2 44 (7.483 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 39 (6.633 %) OVOW 4 24 (4.082 %) OVPI 5 23 (3.912 %) CiscoWorks 6 21 (3.571 %) OVPA 7 17 (2.891 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 14 (2.381 %) CONTROL-M 9 8 (1.361 %) BMC Performance Manager 10 7 (1.190 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 6 (1.020 %) HP Data Protector 12 5 (0.850 %) OVSD 13 3 (0.510 %) ZENworks 13 3 (0.510 %) OVIS 14 2 (0.340 %) NNM 15 1 (0.170 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 15 1 (0.170 %) MOM	Vendors 1 149 (25.34 %) Microsoft 2 68 (11.56 %) HP 3 53 (9.014 %) Oracle 4 39 (6.633 %) Cisco 5 32 (5.442 %) Citrix 6 22 (3.741 %) Compaq 7 12 (2.041 %) McAfee Security 8 10 (1.701 %) Symantec 9 8 (1.361 %) BMC 10 7 (1.190 %) Tridion 10 7 (1.190 %) VMware 11 6 (1.020 %) AppSense 11 6 (1.020 %) Remedy 11 6 (1.020 %) Sage 11 6 (1.020 %) Dell 11 6 (1.020 %) BEA 12 5 (0.850 %) CA 12 5 (0.850 %) Business Objects 12 5 (0.850 %) VERITAS 13 4 (0.680 %) Lotus