Cheshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Cheshire 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	65	40
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	14	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	3.509 %	11.76 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£115
Average daily rate	£241	£115
% change on same period last year	+109.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£248	£115
UK excluding London average daily rate	£234	£274
% change on same period last year	-14.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.33	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£10.33	£13.25
% change on same period last year	-22.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.33	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.40	£16.73
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Operating Systems Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	399	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.530 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	126	41
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£293
Average daily rate	£432	£298
% change on same period last year	+44.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.97	£24.79
Average hourly rate	£19.78	£27.74
% change on same period last year	-28.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.59	£30.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.02	£23.65
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Windows XP North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Chester	-4	4	-	-
Macclesfield	+2	4	-	-
Middlewich	-	1	-	-
Warrington	-5	1	-	-

Windows XP North West

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 38 (100.00 %) Windows 2 31 (81.58 %) Active Directory 3 14 (36.84 %) Microsoft 4 13 (34.21 %) MS Office 5 6 (15.79 %) MS Exchange 5 6 (15.79 %) Citrix 6 5 (13.16 %) Windows Server 2003 6 5 (13.16 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (10.53 %) Migration 8 3 (7.895 %) Blackberry 8 3 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 3 (7.895 %) MCSE 8 3 (7.895 %) SQL 8 3 (7.895 %) Novell 8 3 (7.895 %) Microsoft Certification

8 3 (7.895 %) TCP/IP 9 2 (5.263 %) Dreamweaver 9 2 (5.263 %) DNS 9 2 (5.263 %) Dell 9 2 (5.263 %) Lotus 9 2 (5.263 %) MS Excel 9 2 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (5.263 %) MCP 9 2 (5.263 %) Windows NT 9 2 (5.263 %) Broadband 9 2 (5.263 %) LAN 9 2 (5.263 %) WAN 9 2 (5.263 %) DHCP 9 2 (5.263 %) Ethernet 9 2 (5.263 %) NetWare

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 Platforms 1 6 (15.79 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (2.632 %) IIS 4 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 13 (34.21 %) MS Office 2 2 (5.263 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.895 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (5.263 %) DNS 2 2 (5.263 %) Broadband 2 2 (5.263 %) LAN 2 2 (5.263 %) WAN 2 2 (5.263 %) DHCP 2 2 (5.263 %) Ethernet 3 1 (2.632 %) 3G 3 1 (2.632 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (5.263 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (2.632 %) WinRunner 2 1 (2.632 %) TestDirector 2 1 (2.632 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 2 (5.263 %) Finance 2 1 (2.632 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 15 (39.47 %) Analyst 2 11 (28.95 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 9 (23.68 %) Support Engineer 4 7 (18.42 %) Field Engineer 5 6 (15.79 %) Hardware Engineer 6 5 (13.16 %) Desktop Engineer 6 5 (13.16 %) Desktop Support 7 4 (10.53 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 4 (10.53 %) 2nd Line Support 8 3 (7.895 %) Administrator 9 2 (5.263 %) Service Analyst 9 2 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 9 2 (5.263 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 2 (5.263 %) Support Technician 9 2 (5.263 %) Systems Administrator 9 2 (5.263 %) IT Support Technician 9 2 (5.263 %) IT Support Engineer 9 2 (5.263 %) Field Support Engineer 10 1 (2.632 %) PC Support 10 1 (2.632 %) PC Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.895 %) Blackberry 2 2 (5.263 %) Statistics 3 1 (2.632 %) French Language 3 1 (2.632 %) Italian Language 3 1 (2.632 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (2.632 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 38 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (13.16 %) Windows 2000 2 5 (13.16 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (5.263 %) Windows NT 3 2 (5.263 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.53 %) Migration 2 1 (2.632 %) Incident Management 2 1 (2.632 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 3 (7.895 %) SQL 2 1 (2.632 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 3 (7.895 %) MCSE 1 3 (7.895 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.263 %) MCP 3 1 (2.632 %) ISEB 3 1 (2.632 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.632 %) SLA	System Software 1 31 (81.58 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.263 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (5.263 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 14 (36.84 %) Microsoft 2 6 (15.79 %) Citrix 3 3 (7.895 %) Novell 4 2 (5.263 %) Lotus 4 2 (5.263 %) McAfee Security 4 2 (5.263 %) LANDesk 4 2 (5.263 %) Dell 5 1 (2.632 %) SAP 5 1 (2.632 %) Cisco