Croydon Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Croydon region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton 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 Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley 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 Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	12
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	10	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	40.00 %	72.41 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£215
Average daily rate	£320	£234
% change on same period last year	+36.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£253
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.83	£16.23
Average hourly rate	£13.83	£16.85
% change on same period last year	-17.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.83	£17.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems Croydon
Matching contract IT job ads	25	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.029 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£273
Average daily rate	£343	£286
% change on same period last year	+19.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.79	£16.64
Average hourly rate	£13.71	£17.42
% change on same period last year	-21.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.64	£18.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows London

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 Croydon 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 Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 8 (33.33 %) Linux 2 6 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (25.00 %) Active Directory 3 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 3 5 (20.83 %) Firewall 3 5 (20.83 %) LAN 3 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 4 (16.67 %) Back Office 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 4 4 (16.67 %) Marketing 5 3 (12.50 %) VLAN

5 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (12.50 %) Government 5 3 (12.50 %) VMware 5 3 (12.50 %) Red Hat 5 3 (12.50 %) AIX 5 3 (12.50 %) SQL 5 3 (12.50 %) WAN 5 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 6 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 6 2 (8.333 %) Windows XP 6 2 (8.333 %) HP 6 2 (8.333 %) C# 6 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 6 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 6 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 Development 1 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 2 1 (4.167 %) XML 2 1 (4.167 %) XSD 2 1 (4.167 %) WinForms 2 1 (4.167 %) WCF 2 1 (4.167 %) WF 2 1 (4.167 %) LINQ 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 1 (4.167 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) IIS 3 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (20.83 %) LAN 1 5 (20.83 %) Firewall 2 3 (12.50 %) VLAN 2 3 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.167 %) VPN 3 1 (4.167 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Access 3 1 (4.167 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) TestDirector
General 1 4 (16.67 %) Back Office 1 4 (16.67 %) Marketing 2 3 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (4.167 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 4 (16.67 %) Network Consultant 2 4 (16.67 %) Consultant 2 4 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) DBA 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Oracle DBA 5 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Team Leader 5 1 (4.167 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support 5 1 (4.167 %) Support Team Leader 5 1 (4.167 %) Rollout Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) PC Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) French Language 1 1 (4.167 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) Linux 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 3 (12.50 %) AIX 4 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 5 2 (8.333 %) Windows XP 5 2 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (4.167 %) HPUX 6 1 (4.167 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 2 (8.333 %) Service Management 2 2 (8.333 %) Migration 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Network Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Software Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.167 %) CTC Cleared 3 1 (4.167 %) Process Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) ITSM	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) CCNP 1 1 (4.167 %) CCNA 1 1 (4.167 %) CCDP 1 1 (4.167 %) ISEB 1 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (4.167 %) SCSA 1 1 (4.167 %) SCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.167 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Legato
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 2 3 (12.50 %) Red Hat 2 3 (12.50 %) VMware 3 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 3 2 (8.333 %) Cisco 3 2 (8.333 %) IBM 3 2 (8.333 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) EMC 4 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 4 1 (4.167 %) Lotus 4 1 (4.167 %) Symantec 4 1 (4.167 %) Brocade