Cambridgeshire Windows NT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 NT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hartlepool Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	56
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	15	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	5.859 %	2.827 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£127	£300
Average daily rate	£138	£300
% change on same period last year	-53.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£150	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£259	£316
% change on same period last year	-17.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.90	£9.67
Average hourly rate	£16.60	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+58.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.30	£11.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.63	£19.15
% change on same period last year	+7.73 %
Operating Systems Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	256	283
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.341 %	0.286 %
Daily rates quoted	32	42
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£288
Average daily rate	£266	£304
% change on same period last year	-12.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.14	£19.81
Average hourly rate	£22.14	£21.40
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.15	£22.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows NT East of England

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 NT
Demand Trend

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

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows NT
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Cambridge	+17	9	£145	-
Huntingdon	-	4	-	-
Ely	-	1	-	-
Peterborough	-2	1	£125	-

Windows NT East of England

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 28 (66.67 %) Windows 2 23 (54.76 %) Windows 2000 3 22 (52.38 %) Active Directory 4 21 (50.00 %) Microsoft 5 20 (47.62 %) MS Office 6 19 (45.24 %) ADSL 7 16 (38.10 %) WAN 8 15 (35.71 %) LAN 8 15 (35.71 %) HP 9 14 (33.33 %) Dell 9 14 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 10 13 (30.95 %) Firewall 11 12 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 12 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 12 11 (26.19 %) ISDN

12 11 (26.19 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 11 (26.19 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 10 (23.81 %) Intrusion Detection 13 10 (23.81 %) Cisco 14 9 (21.43 %) DameWare 15 8 (19.05 %) 3Com 15 8 (19.05 %) OpenView 15 8 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 15 8 (19.05 %) McAfee Security 15 8 (19.05 %) VoIP 16 6 (14.29 %) WLAN 16 6 (14.29 %) SMS 16 6 (14.29 %) Windows XP 16 6 (14.29 %) MCP 16 6 (14.29 %) C++

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (7.143 %) MFC 1 3 (7.143 %) ATL 2 2 (4.762 %) XML 2 2 (4.762 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 14 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (26.19 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 11 (26.19 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (4.762 %) Apache 4 2 (4.762 %) Tomcat 5 1 (2.381 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 20 (47.62 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.381 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 19 (45.24 %) ADSL 2 16 (38.10 %) WAN 3 15 (35.71 %) LAN 4 13 (30.95 %) Firewall 5 12 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (26.19 %) ISDN 7 10 (23.81 %) Intrusion Detection 8 8 (19.05 %) VoIP 9 6 (14.29 %) WLAN 9 6 (14.29 %) SMS 9 6 (14.29 %) VPN 10 5 (11.90 %) DNS 11 3 (7.143 %) DHCP 12 2 (4.762 %) FTP 12 2 (4.762 %) SMTP 12 2 (4.762 %) IP Telephony 12 2 (4.762 %) SSH 13 1 (2.381 %) Wireless 13 1 (2.381 %) SAN 13 1 (2.381 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.762 %) MySQL	General 1 2 (4.762 %) Government
Job Titles 1 21 (50.00 %) Support Engineer 2 11 (26.19 %) Network Support Engineer 2 11 (26.19 %) Network Engineer 2 11 (26.19 %) Network Support 3 8 (19.05 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 8 (19.05 %) Analyst 4 6 (14.29 %) Desktop Engineer 5 3 (7.143 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 3 (7.143 %) C++ Developer 5 3 (7.143 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (7.143 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (7.143 %) Developer 5 3 (7.143 %) Senior Support Engineer 5 3 (7.143 %) IT Support Engineer 5 3 (7.143 %) Senior Network Support 5 3 (7.143 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Deployment Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Project Manager 7 1 (2.381 %) Technical Engineer 7 1 (2.381 %) Infrastructure Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) MPEG 1 2 (4.762 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.381 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 28 (66.67 %) Windows 2 23 (54.76 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 2 (4.762 %) Linux 4 2 (4.762 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.90 %) ITIL 2 4 (9.524 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (4.762 %) OOA/OOD 3 2 (4.762 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.381 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (2.381 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 6 (14.29 %) C++ 2 3 (7.143 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 8 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (14.29 %) MCP 3 3 (7.143 %) MCSE 3 3 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (7.143 %) Degree 4 2 (4.762 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) SLA	System Software 1 22 (52.38 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 9 (21.43 %) DameWare 2 8 (19.05 %) OpenView 3 3 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (2.381 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 21 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 15 (35.71 %) HP 3 14 (33.33 %) Dell 4 10 (23.81 %) Cisco 5 8 (19.05 %) McAfee Security 5 8 (19.05 %) 3Com 6 6 (14.29 %) Compaq 7 1 (2.381 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.381 %) Symantec