Cambridgeshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	44
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	31	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	11.48 %	8.302 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£187	£248
Average daily rate	£210	£258
% change on same period last year	-18.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£233	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£234	£274
% change on same period last year	-14.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.14	£12.20
Average hourly rate	£16.04	£13.70
% change on same period last year	+17.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.93	£15.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.40	£16.73
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Operating Systems Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	270	265
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.359 %	0.272 %
Daily rates quoted	31	40
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£293
Average daily rate	£268	£309
% change on same period last year	-13.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	76	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.87	£19.81
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.44
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.61	£23.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.02	£23.65
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Windows XP 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 XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Windows XP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows XP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 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	23	£210	-22.69 %
Huntingdon	-	5	-	-
Peterborough	-3	1	-	-

Windows XP East of England

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 59 (98.33 %) Windows 2 27 (45.00 %) Microsoft 3 20 (33.33 %) Active Directory 4 16 (26.67 %) MS Office 5 11 (18.33 %) UNIX 6 10 (16.67 %) Citrix 7 9 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 8 7 (11.67 %) MS Excel 9 6 (10.00 %) Linux 9 6 (10.00 %) Windows 2000 9 6 (10.00 %) DNS 9 6 (10.00 %) Windows NT 10 4 (6.667 %) HP 10 4 (6.667 %) SQL Server 10 4 (6.667 %) Remedy

10 4 (6.667 %) Wireless 10 4 (6.667 %) Electronics 11 3 (5.000 %) Blackberry 11 3 (5.000 %) Software Testing 11 3 (5.000 %) MS PowerPoint 11 3 (5.000 %) Degree 11 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 3 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 11 3 (5.000 %) C# 11 3 (5.000 %) .NET 11 3 (5.000 %) Python 11 3 (5.000 %) ITIL 11 3 (5.000 %) ITIL Certification 11 3 (5.000 %) LAN

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (5.000 %) .NET 2 2 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.333 %) AJAX 2 2 (3.333 %) WCF 2 2 (3.333 %) WPF 2 2 (3.333 %) Silverlight 3 1 (1.667 %) .NET Remoting 3 1 (1.667 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.667 %) COM+ 3 1 (1.667 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 9 (15.00 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (3.333 %) GroupWise 3 2 (3.333 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (3.333 %) Apache 3 2 (3.333 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (1.667 %) IIS
Applications 1 16 (26.67 %) MS Office 2 7 (11.67 %) MS Excel 3 3 (5.000 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (3.333 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 6 (10.00 %) DNS 2 4 (6.667 %) Wireless 3 3 (5.000 %) LAN 3 3 (5.000 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (3.333 %) VoIP 4 2 (3.333 %) DHCP 4 2 (3.333 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (3.333 %) Bluetooth 4 2 (3.333 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (1.667 %) SSH 5 1 (1.667 %) UWB 5 1 (1.667 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (1.667 %) VPN 5 1 (1.667 %) SAN 5 1 (1.667 %) Internet 5 1 (1.667 %) SCCP 5 1 (1.667 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.333 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.667 %) DB2 3 1 (1.667 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (1.667 %) MS Access 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) Bugzilla 1 2 (3.333 %) Subversion 1 2 (3.333 %) FrontPage 2 1 (1.667 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.667 %) ClearCase
General 1 4 (6.667 %) Electronics 2 2 (3.333 %) Telecoms 2 2 (3.333 %) Government 2 2 (3.333 %) Legal 2 2 (3.333 %) Multimedia 3 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 15 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 2 11 (18.33 %) Analyst 3 8 (13.33 %) Desktop Support 3 8 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (11.67 %) 2nd Line Support 5 6 (10.00 %) IT Support Engineer 6 4 (6.667 %) Developer 6 4 (6.667 %) 1st Line Support 7 3 (5.000 %) Systems Manager 7 3 (5.000 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (5.000 %) Test Engineer 7 3 (5.000 %) Helpdesk Support 7 3 (5.000 %) Hardware Engineer 8 2 (3.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (3.333 %) Desktop Engineer 8 2 (3.333 %) IT Trainer 8 2 (3.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 2 (3.333 %) Technical Support 8 2 (3.333 %) Software Developer 8 2 (3.333 %) Trainer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.000 %) Blackberry 2 2 (3.333 %) AS400 2 2 (3.333 %) Multithreading 2 2 (3.333 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 59 (98.33 %) Windows 2 11 (18.33 %) UNIX 3 6 (10.00 %) Linux 3 6 (10.00 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (10.00 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.000 %) ITIL 1 3 (5.000 %) Software Testing 1 3 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (3.333 %) Manual Testing 2 2 (3.333 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (3.333 %) CRM 3 1 (1.667 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.667 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.667 %) Web Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (5.000 %) C# 1 3 (5.000 %) Python 2 2 (3.333 %) SQL 2 2 (3.333 %) C++ 2 2 (3.333 %) Perl 3 1 (1.667 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (5.000 %) ITIL Certification 1 3 (5.000 %) Degree 2 1 (1.667 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.667 %) CCNA 2 1 (1.667 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.667 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.000 %) SLA
System Software 1 20 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.333 %) NFS 3 1 (1.667 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 2 (3.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.667 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.667 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 27 (45.00 %) Microsoft 2 10 (16.67 %) Citrix 3 4 (6.667 %) Remedy 3 4 (6.667 %) HP 4 2 (3.333 %) Dell 4 2 (3.333 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.333 %) Cisco 4 2 (3.333 %) IBM 4 2 (3.333 %) NetApp 4 2 (3.333 %) Lotus 4 2 (3.333 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.667 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.667 %) Juniper 5 1 (1.667 %) BMC 5 1 (1.667 %) SAP 5 1 (1.667 %) Intel