County Antrim WINS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) skills within the County Antrim region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WINS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Grays Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thurrock Tipton UK Wakefield West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	26.92 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£343
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.90	£25.57
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Communications & Networking County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	26	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.017 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£367
Average daily rate	£302	£400
% change on same period last year	-24.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
WINS Northern Ireland

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.

WINS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WINS across the County Antrim region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WINS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WINS within the County Antrim 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
Belfast	-	7	-	-

WINS Northern Ireland

WINS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim region citing WINS 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 WINS.

1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (85.71 %) Microsoft 3 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (57.14 %) Finance 5 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 5 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 6 2 (28.57 %) IIS 6 2 (28.57 %) SQL 6 2 (28.57 %) Dell 6 2 (28.57 %) HP 6 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange

6 2 (28.57 %) FTP 6 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (28.57 %) WMI 6 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (28.57 %) Symantec 7 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 7 1 (14.29 %) ARCserve 7 1 (14.29 %) DNS 7 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 7 1 (14.29 %) Compaq 7 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 7 1 (14.29 %) VB 7 1 (14.29 %) Windows NT

WINS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) IIS 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) FTP 1 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (14.29 %) DNS 2 1 (14.29 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 4 (57.14 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Consultant 1 6 (85.71 %) Infrastructure Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Server Engineer
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows NT 3 1 (14.29 %) HPUX 3 1 (14.29 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 2 1 (14.29 %) VB
Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 6 (85.71 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) HP 2 2 (28.57 %) Dell 2 2 (28.57 %) Symantec 3 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 3 1 (14.29 %) Compaq