Windows XP Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP 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 XP 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 XP
Rank 21 20 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 3 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.190% 1.739% 1.875%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.383% 5.714% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £205 £225
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £14.00 £12.63
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +10.89%
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 XP
Cheshire

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester Windows XP Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) VB
2 6 (46.15%) UNIX
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 6 (46.15%) Blackberry
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Local Government
3 4 (30.77%) Symantec
3 4 (30.77%) Citrix
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) XenApp
3 4 (30.77%) SCCM
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (23.08%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) McAfee
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (23.08%) AppSense
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
6 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (7.692%) Fujitsu
6 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
1 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) IT Support
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) UNIX
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL
1 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) VB
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) XenApp
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) Symantec
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) McAfee
3 3 (23.08%) AppSense
4 1 (7.692%) Fujitsu
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
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