Cornwall Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Cornwall 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 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kegworth Keighley Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	1
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	4	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	88.24 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£11.60
Average hourly rate	£15.25	£12.80
% change on same period last year	+19.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems Cornwall
Matching contract IT job ads	4	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£325
Average daily rate	-	£375
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.20	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£16.50	£13.44
% change on same period last year	+22.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.80	£14.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows South 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Cornwall region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Cornwall region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows within the Cornwall region over the 3 months to 4 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
Torpoint	-	4	-	-

Windows South West

Windows
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cornwall region citing Windows 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.

1 2 (50.00 %) MS Office 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows NT 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (50.00 %) Terminal Services 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 2 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (50.00 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (25.00 %) Government

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cornwall region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 2 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Office
General 1 1 (25.00 %) Government	Job Titles 1 2 (50.00 %) Support Specialist 1 2 (50.00 %) 3rd Line Support 2 1 (25.00 %) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows NT 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (50.00 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (50.00 %) Security Cleared
System Software 1 2 (50.00 %) Terminal Services