Devon Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Devon 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	3	1
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	30	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	61.22 %	67.05 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£195
Average daily rate	£372	£220
% change on same period last year	+68.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£15.97
Average hourly rate	£20.14	£17.73
% change on same period last year	+13.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.29	£19.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	49	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.093 %
Daily rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£255
Average daily rate	£358	£271
% change on same period last year	+32.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.95	£16.01
Average hourly rate	£26.88	£17.74
% change on same period last year	+51.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£19.47
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 Devon 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 Devon region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Devon 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 Devon 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
Exeter	-8	8	-	-
Plymouth	+1	8	£372	+197.71 %

Windows South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 37 (43.02 %) Active Directory 2 28 (32.56 %) Windows 2000 3 27 (31.40 %) MS Office 3 27 (31.40 %) Microsoft 4 26 (30.23 %) Windows Server 2003 5 25 (29.07 %) Firewall 6 23 (26.74 %) Windows XP 6 23 (26.74 %) MS Exchange 7 22 (25.58 %) MS Excel 8 18 (20.93 %) SQL Server 9 17 (19.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 16 (18.60 %) TCP/IP 11 14 (16.28 %) Cisco 12 13 (15.12 %) CheckPoint 12 13 (15.12 %) WebServices

13 12 (13.95 %) SAN 14 11 (12.79 %) Citrix 14 11 (12.79 %) DNS 15 10 (11.63 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 15 10 (11.63 %) Java 15 10 (11.63 %) Solaris 15 10 (11.63 %) VLAN 16 9 (10.47 %) Summit 16 9 (10.47 %) LAN 16 9 (10.47 %) SQL 16 9 (10.47 %) VPN 16 9 (10.47 %) WAN 16 9 (10.47 %) HP 16 9 (10.47 %) Government 16 9 (10.47 %) VMware

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 13 (15.12 %) WebServices 2 7 (8.140 %) .NET 3 5 (5.814 %) J2EE 3 5 (5.814 %) CSS 3 5 (5.814 %) HTML 3 5 (5.814 %) XML 3 5 (5.814 %) XSLT 3 5 (5.814 %) XForms 3 5 (5.814 %) AJAX 4 3 (3.488 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 23 (26.74 %) MS Exchange 2 17 (19.77 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (8.140 %) Apache 3 7 (8.140 %) Tomcat 4 6 (6.977 %) IIS 5 5 (5.814 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 3 (3.488 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (2.326 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 27 (31.40 %) MS Office 2 22 (25.58 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.163 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 9 (10.47 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 25 (29.07 %) Firewall 2 16 (18.60 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (13.95 %) SAN 4 11 (12.79 %) DNS 5 10 (11.63 %) VLAN 6 9 (10.47 %) VPN 6 9 (10.47 %) LAN 6 9 (10.47 %) WAN 7 6 (6.977 %) Intrusion Detection 8 5 (5.814 %) Cisco PIX 9 4 (4.651 %) FTP 9 4 (4.651 %) Extranet 9 4 (4.651 %) SSH 10 3 (3.488 %) WINS 10 3 (3.488 %) DHCP 11 2 (2.326 %) Internet 12 1 (1.163 %) SSL 12 1 (1.163 %) Wi-Fi 12 1 (1.163 %) Ethernet 12 1 (1.163 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (20.93 %) SQL Server 2 5 (5.814 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.163 %) GIS 4 1 (1.163 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.163 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 3 (3.488 %) MSI	General 1 9 (10.47 %) Government 2 3 (3.488 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.163 %) Finance 3 1 (1.163 %) Education 3 1 (1.163 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 18 (20.93 %) Consultant 2 13 (15.12 %) Analyst 3 12 (13.95 %) Network Support 4 11 (12.79 %) Support Engineer 5 10 (11.63 %) 2nd Line Support 5 10 (11.63 %) Support Analyst 6 7 (8.140 %) Network Consultant 6 7 (8.140 %) 3rd Line Support 7 6 (6.977 %) Technical Consultant 7 6 (6.977 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (6.977 %) Developer 7 6 (6.977 %) PC Support 8 5 (5.814 %) Security Consultant 9 4 (4.651 %) Web Developer 9 4 (4.651 %) Network Engineer 10 3 (3.488 %) Applications Packager 10 3 (3.488 %) Network Technician 10 3 (3.488 %) Desktop Support Analyst 10 3 (3.488 %) Network Support Engineer 10 3 (3.488 %) Desktop Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.302 %) Thin Client 1 8 (9.302 %) Fat Client 2 5 (5.814 %) SecurID 3 3 (3.488 %) Replication 4 2 (2.326 %) CESG 4 2 (2.326 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.163 %) NHS 5 1 (1.163 %) Blackberry 5 1 (1.163 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 28 (32.56 %) Windows 2000 2 26 (30.23 %) Windows Server 2003 3 23 (26.74 %) Windows XP 4 10 (11.63 %) Solaris 5 4 (4.651 %) Linux 5 4 (4.651 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.163 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.163 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (9.302 %) Network Design 1 8 (9.302 %) Requirements Analysis 2 5 (5.814 %) Network Load Balancing 2 5 (5.814 %) Service Management 3 4 (4.651 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (3.488 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (2.326 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.163 %) Software Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) Change Management 6 1 (1.163 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.163 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (1.163 %) Problem Management 6 1 (1.163 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (1.163 %) Manual Testing 6 1 (1.163 %) Time Management 6 1 (1.163 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 10 (11.63 %) Java 2 9 (10.47 %) SQL 3 5 (5.814 %) XQuery 3 5 (5.814 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.163 %) C 4 1 (1.163 %) C++ 4 1 (1.163 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 8 (9.302 %) CCIE 1 8 (9.302 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.163 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.163 %) Degree 2 1 (1.163 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.163 %) MCP 2 1 (1.163 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (6.977 %) SLA 2 1 (1.163 %) QA	System Software 1 37 (43.02 %) Active Directory 2 8 (9.302 %) VMware ESX 2 8 (9.302 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (5.814 %) ISA Server 4 3 (3.488 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (2.326 %) MetaFrame 6 1 (1.163 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (1.163 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 10 (11.63 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.326 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.163 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 27 (31.40 %) Microsoft 2 14 (16.28 %) Cisco 3 13 (15.12 %) CheckPoint 4 11 (12.79 %) Citrix 5 9 (10.47 %) HP 5 9 (10.47 %) VMware 6 7 (8.140 %) VERITAS 7 5 (5.814 %) Sun 8 4 (4.651 %) Dell 9 3 (3.488 %) Nokia 10 2 (2.326 %) Oracle 11 1 (1.163 %) Novell 11 1 (1.163 %) Intel 11 1 (1.163 %) Mapinfo