Windows XP Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 91 82 93
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 130 160 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 2.022% 2.005% 1.831%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.39% 10.13% 9.542%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 68 87
Average daily rate £249 £254 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.97% -19.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £147 £141 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £465 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £210 £225
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 38
Average hourly rate £135.00 £17.87 £17.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+655.66% -0.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +12.00%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 1251 1579 1855
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.46% 19.79% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 983 1239
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows XP
London

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Windows XP Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 288 (100.00%) Windows
2 179 (62.15%) Windows 7
3 157 (54.51%) Active Directory
4 113 (39.24%) MS Office
5 102 (35.42%) Microsoft
6 93 (32.29%) Citrix
7 85 (29.51%) Windows Server 2003
8 78 (27.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 72 (25.00%) ITIL
10 62 (21.53%) Blackberry
11 60 (20.83%) MS Exchange
11 60 (20.83%) Finance
12 46 (15.97%) Banking
13 45 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (14.93%) Exchange Server 2007
15 37 (12.85%) VMware
15 37 (12.85%) MS Excel
16 32 (11.11%) MCSE
16 32 (11.11%) LAN
16 32 (11.11%) TCP/IP
17 31 (10.76%) Security Cleared
18 30 (10.42%) WAN
19 29 (10.07%) XenApp
20 28 (9.722%) VMware Infrastructure
20 28 (9.722%) SLA
20 28 (9.722%) SQL
21 27 (9.375%) PRINCE2
21 27 (9.375%) Cisco
21 27 (9.375%) Migration
21 27 (9.375%) Service Management

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 15 (5.208%) HTML
2 6 (2.083%) Application Packaging
3 5 (1.736%) Web Services
4 4 (1.389%) .NET
5 3 (1.042%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.042%) COM
5 3 (1.042%) ADSI
6 1 (0.347%) X-Windows
6 1 (0.347%) Flash
6 1 (0.347%) ASP
6 1 (0.347%) XML
6 1 (0.347%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.347%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.347%) Django
Application Platforms
1 60 (20.83%) MS Exchange
2 43 (14.93%) Exchange Server 2007
3 21 (7.292%) Lotus Notes
4 19 (6.597%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 16 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
6 13 (4.514%) SharePoint
7 10 (3.472%) IIS
8 7 (2.431%) WorkSite
9 4 (1.389%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (1.389%) Apache
10 2 (0.694%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.347%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.347%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.347%) nginx
11 1 (0.347%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 113 (39.24%) MS Office
2 37 (12.85%) MS Excel
3 8 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.694%) Office 365
5 1 (0.347%) Quicktime
5 1 (0.347%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.11%) LAN
1 32 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 30 (10.42%) WAN
3 25 (8.681%) Internet
4 19 (6.597%) VPN
5 17 (5.903%) DHCP
5 17 (5.903%) DNS
6 15 (5.208%) Cisco ASA
6 15 (5.208%) Intranet
7 10 (3.472%) HTTP
8 9 (3.125%) SAN
9 7 (2.431%) VoIP
10 6 (2.083%) FTP
11 5 (1.736%) SMTP
11 5 (1.736%) NAS
12 4 (1.389%) Ethernet
13 3 (1.042%) Firewall
13 3 (1.042%) 3G
13 3 (1.042%) NNTP
13 3 (1.042%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.514%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.694%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (0.694%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (0.694%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (0.694%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.694%) TOAD
2 2 (0.694%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (0.694%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (0.694%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (0.347%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (3.472%) MSI
2 3 (1.042%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.694%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (0.694%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.347%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.347%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 60 (20.83%) Finance
2 46 (15.97%) Banking
3 27 (9.375%) Legal
4 26 (9.028%) Law
5 14 (4.861%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.431%) Back Office
7 5 (1.736%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (1.736%) Retail
8 4 (1.389%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.042%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.694%) French Language
10 2 (0.694%) Advertising
10 2 (0.694%) Billing
11 1 (0.347%) International Banking
11 1 (0.347%) Games
11 1 (0.347%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.347%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (37.85%) Analyst
2 58 (20.14%) Support Analyst
3 49 (17.01%) Desktop Support
4 41 (14.24%) Support Engineer
5 37 (12.85%) 2nd Line Support
6 35 (12.15%) Service Analyst
7 33 (11.46%) Service Desk Analyst
8 26 (9.028%) Desktop Analyst
9 21 (7.292%) Desktop Engineer
10 17 (5.903%) Desktop Support Analyst
11 16 (5.556%) IT Support
12 15 (5.208%) Administrator
13 14 (4.861%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 13 (4.514%) Systems Administrator
14 13 (4.514%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 10 (3.472%) Project Manager
15 10 (3.472%) 3rd Line Support
15 10 (3.472%) IT Support Analyst
16 9 (3.125%) Help Desk Support
17 8 (2.778%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.53%) Blackberry
2 9 (3.125%) SWIFT
3 6 (2.083%) Hedge funds
3 6 (2.083%) Fat Client
3 6 (2.083%) Thin Client
4 4 (1.389%) iPad
4 4 (1.389%) Handset
4 4 (1.389%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.042%) Clustering
5 3 (1.042%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.694%) Open Source
6 2 (0.694%) New Media
6 2 (0.694%) NHS
6 2 (0.694%) PMI
6 2 (0.694%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.694%) PDA
7 1 (0.347%) Statistics
7 1 (0.347%) Equities
7 1 (0.347%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.347%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 288 (100.00%) Windows
2 179 (62.15%) Windows 7
3 85 (29.51%) Windows Server 2003
4 78 (27.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (6.250%) Windows Vista
6 16 (5.556%) UNIX
6 16 (5.556%) Windows 2000
7 12 (4.167%) Solaris
8 9 (3.125%) Mac OS X
9 6 (2.083%) Linux
10 4 (1.389%) Windows NT
11 3 (1.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.694%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.694%) Debian
13 1 (0.347%) AIX
13 1 (0.347%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.347%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (25.00%) ITIL
2 27 (9.375%) PRINCE2
2 27 (9.375%) Migration
2 27 (9.375%) Service Management
3 21 (7.292%) Project Management
4 15 (5.208%) Business Analysis
5 10 (3.472%) Incident Management
6 8 (2.778%) Problem Management
6 8 (2.778%) Document Management
7 7 (2.431%) ITSM
7 7 (2.431%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (2.083%) Data Migration
9 5 (1.736%) Service Delivery
9 5 (1.736%) Change Management
9 5 (1.736%) Capacity Management
10 4 (1.389%) Service Desk Management
10 4 (1.389%) Change Control
10 4 (1.389%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (1.389%) Asset Management
11 3 (1.042%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.722%) SQL
2 12 (4.167%) VBScript
3 7 (2.431%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.389%) VB
5 3 (1.042%) C#
6 1 (0.347%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.347%) Python
6 1 (0.347%) C
6 1 (0.347%) Perl
6 1 (0.347%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (11.11%) MCSE
3 31 (10.76%) Security Cleared
4 25 (8.681%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.556%) CCNA
5 16 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (5.208%) MCP
7 9 (3.125%) MCDST
8 8 (2.778%) MCSA
8 8 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.083%) MCTS
10 5 (1.736%) MOS
11 3 (1.042%) MCITP
11 3 (1.042%) Degree
12 2 (0.694%) ISEB
12 2 (0.694%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.694%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.347%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.347%) CCA
13 1 (0.347%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.722%) SLA
2 2 (0.694%) QA
3 1 (0.347%) COBIT
System Software
1 157 (54.51%) Active Directory
2 29 (10.07%) XenApp
3 28 (9.722%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (7.986%) XenDesktop
5 10 (3.472%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (3.125%) vSphere
7 5 (1.736%) VMware ESX
8 4 (1.389%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.389%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.042%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.347%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.347%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.347%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.347%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 19 (6.597%) SCCM
2 6 (2.083%) Tivoli
3 4 (1.389%) SCOM
3 4 (1.389%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (1.389%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.042%) NetBackup
4 3 (1.042%) Legato
5 2 (0.694%) CFEngine
5 2 (0.694%) Sysprep
5 2 (0.694%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.347%) DameWare
6 1 (0.347%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.347%) WSUS
6 1 (0.347%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.347%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 102 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 93 (32.29%) Citrix
3 37 (12.85%) VMware
4 27 (9.375%) Cisco
5 21 (7.292%) Lotus
6 17 (5.903%) Dell
7 16 (5.556%) HP
7 16 (5.556%) Reuters
7 16 (5.556%) Bloomberg
8 15 (5.208%) Oracle
9 9 (3.125%) Sybase
10 8 (2.778%) Misys
11 7 (2.431%) AppSense
11 7 (2.431%) Apple
11 7 (2.431%) LANDesk
12 6 (2.083%) IBM
12 6 (2.083%) Sophos
12 6 (2.083%) Thunderhead
12 6 (2.083%) GoldenSource
13 5 (1.736%) Remedy
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