Windows XP Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 44 50 55
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 19 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.585% 1.988% 2.158%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.694% 7.547% 6.731%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
Average daily rate £325 £287 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +43.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £130 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £318 £240
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £205 £225
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.88
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +8.73%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 196 212 312
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.67% 26.34% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 191
Average daily rate £311 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £191 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £493 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 9
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.14% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.22 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows XP
North West

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Cheshire Windows XP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Cheshire 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
Chester -1 4 - -
Warrington -2 3 £475 +331.81%
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Crewe +2 1 - -
Knutsford - 1 - -
Windows XP
North West

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 60 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (76.67%) Windows 7
3 27 (45.00%) Active Directory
4 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 17 (28.33%) MS Excel
6 16 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 15 (25.00%) Citrix
8 14 (23.33%) MS Office
8 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
9 13 (21.67%) SCCM
9 13 (21.67%) ITIL
9 13 (21.67%) VB
9 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
10 12 (20.00%) HP
10 12 (20.00%) MSI
10 12 (20.00%) Banking
10 12 (20.00%) Migration
11 11 (18.33%) InstallShield
11 11 (18.33%) Blackberry
11 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (18.33%) XenApp
12 10 (16.67%) Wise Package Studio
12 10 (16.67%) Finance
13 8 (13.33%) Incident Management
13 8 (13.33%) AdminStudio
13 8 (13.33%) ISO 9000
13 8 (13.33%) UNIX
13 8 (13.33%) MCSE
14 7 (11.67%) Lotus Notes
14 7 (11.67%) MS Visio

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (11.67%) Application Packaging
1 7 (11.67%) Software Packaging
2 4 (6.667%) .NET
3 3 (5.000%) HTML
3 3 (5.000%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.000%) XML
4 1 (1.667%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.67%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (6.667%) LiveLink
2 4 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.667%) MS Exchange
3 3 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) MS Excel
2 14 (23.33%) MS Office
3 7 (11.67%) MS Visio
3 7 (11.67%) MS Project
3 7 (11.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.333%) VPN
3 3 (5.000%) Wireless
4 2 (3.333%) Broadband
4 2 (3.333%) LAN
4 2 (3.333%) 3G
4 2 (3.333%) WAN
5 1 (1.667%) VoIP
5 1 (1.667%) DHCP
5 1 (1.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) MSI
2 11 (18.33%) InstallShield
3 10 (16.67%) Wise Package Studio
4 8 (13.33%) AdminStudio
5 3 (5.000%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.667%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (20.00%) Banking
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Local Government
4 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Applications Packager
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Build Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 4 (6.667%) Software Packager
5 4 (6.667%) Service Analyst
5 4 (6.667%) Field Engineer
5 4 (6.667%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (6.667%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (5.000%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (3.333%) IT Support
7 2 (3.333%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.333%) Desktop Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Team Leader
8 1 (1.667%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Blackberry
2 3 (5.000%) Handset
2 3 (5.000%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.000%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (76.67%) Windows 7
3 8 (13.33%) UNIX
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (10.00%) Windows Vista
5 6 (10.00%) Linux
6 3 (5.000%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) ITIL
2 12 (20.00%) Migration
3 8 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 5 (8.333%) Service Management
5 4 (6.667%) Software Deployment
5 4 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (5.000%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.000%) Test Management
6 3 (5.000%) Test Scripting
7 2 (3.333%) Test Strategy
7 2 (3.333%) Data Migration
7 2 (3.333%) Manual Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Project Management
8 1 (1.667%) Compatibility Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Software Testing
8 1 (1.667%) TOGAF
8 1 (1.667%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.667%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.667%) Software Architecture
8 1 (1.667%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) VB
2 6 (10.00%) VBScript
3 5 (8.333%) SQL
4 4 (6.667%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (13.33%) MCSE
5 7 (11.67%) MCP
5 7 (11.67%) MCDST
5 7 (11.67%) MCITP
6 3 (5.000%) ISEB
6 3 (5.000%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) ISO 9000
2 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.67%) BS25999
3 4 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 27 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 11 (18.33%) XenApp
4 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.667%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) SCCM
2 7 (11.67%) OpenView
2 7 (11.67%) ServiceCenter
3 4 (6.667%) ZENworks
4 3 (5.000%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Citrix
3 12 (20.00%) HP
4 7 (11.67%) Lotus
5 6 (10.00%) VMware
5 6 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (10.00%) Symantec
6 5 (8.333%) AppSense
7 4 (6.667%) Novell
8 3 (5.000%) McAfee
8 3 (5.000%) Kaspersky
9 2 (3.333%) Fujitsu
10 1 (1.667%) Hitachi
10 1 (1.667%) NetApp
10 1 (1.667%) Dell
10 1 (1.667%) EMC
10 1 (1.667%) Cisco
10 1 (1.667%) SAP
10 1 (1.667%) Oracle
2nd / 3rd Line Infra Anaylst - Cheshire - Contract
Cheshire, North West
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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