The first table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows NT
Rank 22 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows NT 2 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.460% - 1.250%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.255% - 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £185 £325
% change year-on-year
+60.94% -43.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £31.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-29.03% +138.46%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
47 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 34.31% 30.43% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 13
Average daily rate £265 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.89% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £28.75 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+105.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows NT
Cheshire

Windows NT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Windows NT Jobs Demand Trend

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Windows NT Daily Rate Trend

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Windows NT Hourly Rate Trend

Windows NT
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) SCOM
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (60.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) FMCG
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Wintel Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) HP