Derby Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Derby 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Argyll and Bute Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	43	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	82.69 %	86.27 %
Daily rates quoted	18	2
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£300
Average daily rate	£330	£300
% change on same period last year	+9.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£306
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.17	£27.75
Average hourly rate	£29.65	£29.21
% change on same period last year	+1.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.13	£30.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.89	£20.47
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Operating Systems Derby
Matching contract IT job ads	52	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.052 %
Daily rates quoted	22	5
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£273
Average daily rate	£298	£280
% change on same period last year	+6.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.27	£27.39
Average hourly rate	£31.06	£29.19
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.85	£30.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Windows Derbyshire

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 Derby 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 Derby region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Derby region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Derby region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 28 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 21 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 21 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 3 17 (30.36 %) Security Cleared 4 16 (28.57 %) Data Management 4 16 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (28.57 %) CAD 4 16 (28.57 %) Windows XP 5 15 (26.79 %) SQL 5 15 (26.79 %) Oracle 5 15 (26.79 %) PDM 6 13 (23.21 %) C 6 13 (23.21 %) C++ 6 13 (23.21 %) Java 6 13 (23.21 %) Perl

6 13 (23.21 %) Active Directory 7 12 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 8 11 (19.64 %) Client/Server 9 7 (12.50 %) Tivoli 9 7 (12.50 %) Solaris 9 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 10 6 (10.71 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 6 (10.71 %) Citrix 10 6 (10.71 %) PLM 10 6 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 5 (8.929 %) SC Cleared 11 5 (8.929 %) MSI 11 5 (8.929 %) MS Exchange 12 4 (7.143 %) BC Cleared 12 4 (7.143 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 (3.571 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.786 %) ASP 2 1 (1.786 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.786 %) WebServices 2 1 (1.786 %) Middleware 2 1 (1.786 %) Software Packaging 2 1 (1.786 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.929 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (5.357 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (3.571 %) SharePoint 3 2 (3.571 %) IIS 4 1 (1.786 %) Apache 4 1 (1.786 %) Live Communications Server 4 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.786 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.786 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.357 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (3.571 %) Internet 3 1 (1.786 %) VPN 3 1 (1.786 %) DNS 3 1 (1.786 %) SSL 3 1 (1.786 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (3.571 %) RDBMS 1 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.786 %) PowerCenter	Development Applications 1 5 (8.929 %) MSI
General 1 21 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 2 4 (7.143 %) Finance 2 4 (7.143 %) Aerospace 3 2 (3.571 %) Banking 3 2 (3.571 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.786 %) Health 4 1 (1.786 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 13 (23.21 %) Analyst 2 8 (14.29 %) Technical Lead 3 6 (10.71 %) Technical Analyst 4 4 (7.143 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 4 (7.143 %) Senior Analyst 4 4 (7.143 %) Architect 4 4 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (7.143 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (5.357 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 3 (5.357 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (3.571 %) Technical Support 6 2 (3.571 %) Administrator 6 2 (3.571 %) Developer 6 2 (3.571 %) Technical Support Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Information Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) UNIX Engineer 6 2 (3.571 %) Solutions Architect 7 1 (1.786 %) Helpdesk Engineer 7 1 (1.786 %) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (19.64 %) Client/Server 2 2 (3.571 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 28 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 16 (28.57 %) Windows XP 2 16 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 12 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (12.50 %) Solaris 5 6 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (3.571 %) AIX 6 2 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.786 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (1.786 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (30.36 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (28.57 %) CAD 2 16 (28.57 %) Data Management 3 15 (26.79 %) PDM 4 6 (10.71 %) PLM 5 5 (8.929 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (7.143 %) BC Cleared 7 3 (5.357 %) Quality Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (3.571 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.571 %) ITIL 8 2 (3.571 %) Requirements Analysis 8 2 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (1.786 %) Data Migration 9 1 (1.786 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.786 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (1.786 %) UML 9 1 (1.786 %) OO 9 1 (1.786 %) OOD 9 1 (1.786 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 15 (26.79 %) SQL 2 13 (23.21 %) C 2 13 (23.21 %) C++ 2 13 (23.21 %) Java 2 13 (23.21 %) Perl 3 1 (1.786 %) C# 3 1 (1.786 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 2 (3.571 %) MCP 1 2 (3.571 %) MCSE 1 2 (3.571 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (3.571 %) A+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.786 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (23.21 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.786 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (1.786 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (1.786 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 7 (12.50 %) Tivoli 2 6 (10.71 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (3.571 %) MOM 4 1 (1.786 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 21 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 15 (26.79 %) Oracle 3 6 (10.71 %) Citrix 4 3 (5.357 %) IBM 5 2 (3.571 %) HP 6 1 (1.786 %) Intel 6 1 (1.786 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.786 %) BMC 6 1 (1.786 %) Informatica 6 1 (1.786 %) NetApp 6 1 (1.786 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.786 %) Brocade