Dorset Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Dorset 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham 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 Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham 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 Dunbar Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames 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 Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandbach Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea 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 Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge 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 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	95	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.136 %
As % of the category below	85.59 %	65.22 %
Daily rates quoted	12	44
Average minimum daily rate	£222	£273
Average daily rate	£230	£289
% change on same period last year	-20.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£238	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.33	£25.66
Average hourly rate	£30.42	£27.67
% change on same period last year	+9.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.51	£29.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.88	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	111	207
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.209 %
Daily rates quoted	15	65
Average minimum daily rate	£222	£288
Average daily rate	£233	£303
% change on same period last year	-23.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£244	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.64	£22.83
Average hourly rate	£28.81	£25.06
% change on same period last year	+14.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.98	£27.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
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 Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 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 Dorset region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Poole	-2	20	£227	-26.28 %
Bournemouth	-11	6	-	-

Windows South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 53 (38.97 %) Security Cleared 2 49 (36.03 %) Microsoft 3 46 (33.82 %) Windows Server 2003 4 37 (27.21 %) Aerospace 5 25 (18.38 %) Windows XP 6 22 (16.18 %) Active Directory 7 18 (13.24 %) C# 7 18 (13.24 %) Test Scripting 8 17 (12.50 %) VBScript 9 16 (11.76 %) WSUS 10 15 (11.03 %) SC Cleared 10 15 (11.03 %) SMS 10 15 (11.03 %) MOM 10 15 (11.03 %) Government 11 14 (10.29 %) Health

12 13 (9.559 %) TCP/IP 12 13 (9.559 %) MS Exchange 12 13 (9.559 %) Microsoft Certification 12 13 (9.559 %) Oracle 12 13 (9.559 %) MS Office 12 13 (9.559 %) Windows 2000 12 13 (9.559 %) MCSE 13 12 (8.824 %) .NET 13 12 (8.824 %) Oracle 10g 13 12 (8.824 %) Oracle 10gAS 14 11 (8.088 %) Time Management 15 10 (7.353 %) Windows 2000 Server 15 10 (7.353 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 10 (7.353 %) WAN 15 10 (7.353 %) SQL

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 12 (8.824 %) .NET 2 7 (5.147 %) .NET Framework 3 5 (3.676 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 4 (2.941 %) Middleware 5 3 (2.206 %) COM+ 5 3 (2.206 %) SOAP 5 3 (2.206 %) WebServices 6 2 (1.471 %) WebSphere 6 2 (1.471 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (0.735 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (0.735 %) WinForms 7 1 (0.735 %) MFC 7 1 (0.735 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 13 (9.559 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (8.824 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 10 (7.353 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 9 (6.618 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 8 (5.882 %) SharePoint 6 5 (3.676 %) IIS 7 3 (2.206 %) GroupWise 7 3 (2.206 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 3 (2.206 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 2 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 2 (1.471 %) CMS 8 2 (1.471 %) WebSphere MQ 8 2 (1.471 %) MQSeries 9 1 (0.735 %) Apache 9 1 (0.735 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 13 (9.559 %) MS Office 2 9 (6.618 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 8 (5.882 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 15 (11.03 %) SMS 2 13 (9.559 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (7.353 %) WAN 3 10 (7.353 %) LAN 4 9 (6.618 %) DHCP 4 9 (6.618 %) DNS 5 8 (5.882 %) Wi-Fi 6 7 (5.147 %) Firewall 7 5 (3.676 %) VPN 8 4 (2.941 %) Bluetooth 8 4 (2.941 %) GPRS 9 3 (2.206 %) LDAP 9 3 (2.206 %) SSL 9 3 (2.206 %) SAN 9 3 (2.206 %) Intranet 10 1 (0.735 %) Ethernet 10 1 (0.735 %) VoIP 10 1 (0.735 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (8.824 %) Oracle 10g 2 9 (6.618 %) SQL Server 3 8 (5.882 %) Oracle Reports 3 8 (5.882 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 4 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (2.206 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.735 %) Oracle BI EE 6 1 (0.735 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.735 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 3 (2.206 %) FrontPage	General 1 37 (27.21 %) Aerospace 2 15 (11.03 %) Government 3 14 (10.29 %) Health 4 10 (7.353 %) Finance 5 7 (5.147 %) Telecoms 6 3 (2.206 %) Banking 7 2 (1.471 %) Military 8 1 (0.735 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 29 (21.32 %) Integration Engineer 2 26 (19.12 %) Systems Engineer 3 21 (15.44 %) Analyst 4 18 (13.24 %) Test Engineer 5 13 (9.559 %) DBA 6 12 (8.824 %) Oracle DBA 7 10 (7.353 %) Developer 8 9 (6.618 %) Software Engineer 9 8 (5.882 %) Administrator 10 7 (5.147 %) Support Engineer 10 7 (5.147 %) Support Analyst 11 6 (4.412 %) Consultant 11 6 (4.412 %) 1st Line Support 11 6 (4.412 %) Messaging Analyst 12 5 (3.676 %) Systems Integration Engineer 12 5 (3.676 %) Systems Test Engineer 12 5 (3.676 %) C# Developer 12 5 (3.676 %) Systems Support 13 4 (2.941 %) Helpdesk Analyst 13 4 (2.941 %) Systems Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.618 %) Clustering 2 7 (5.147 %) PDA 3 5 (3.676 %) Replication 4 4 (2.941 %) Client/Server 5 3 (2.206 %) Pocket PC 6 2 (1.471 %) Swedish Language 7 1 (0.735 %) Dutch Language 7 1 (0.735 %) French Language 7 1 (0.735 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.735 %) NHS 7 1 (0.735 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 46 (33.82 %) Windows Server 2003 2 25 (18.38 %) Windows XP 3 13 (9.559 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (7.353 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 9 (6.618 %) Windows CE 5 9 (6.618 %) Windows Mobile 6 8 (5.882 %) UNIX 7 5 (3.676 %) AIX 8 4 (2.941 %) Mac OS X 9 3 (2.206 %) Solaris 10 1 (0.735 %) Linux 10 1 (0.735 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 53 (38.97 %) Security Cleared 2 18 (13.24 %) Test Scripting 3 15 (11.03 %) SC Cleared 4 11 (8.088 %) Time Management 5 10 (7.353 %) Migration 6 6 (4.412 %) Release Management 7 5 (3.676 %) ITIL 7 5 (3.676 %) OO 8 4 (2.941 %) UML 8 4 (2.941 %) OOD 8 4 (2.941 %) Service Management 8 4 (2.941 %) Software Testing 9 3 (2.206 %) Disaster Recovery 10 2 (1.471 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (1.471 %) Information Management 11 1 (0.735 %) Data Analysis 11 1 (0.735 %) Agile Software Development 11 1 (0.735 %) Data Management 11 1 (0.735 %) Content Management 11 1 (0.735 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 18 (13.24 %) C# 2 17 (12.50 %) VBScript 3 10 (7.353 %) SQL 4 7 (5.147 %) C++ 5 5 (3.676 %) VC++ 6 2 (1.471 %) Shell Script 6 2 (1.471 %) Korn 6 2 (1.471 %) VB 7 1 (0.735 %) Java 7 1 (0.735 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 13 (9.559 %) MCSE 1 13 (9.559 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (5.147 %) MCSA 3 4 (2.941 %) MCP 4 3 (2.206 %) MCTS 5 1 (0.735 %) Degree 5 1 (0.735 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.676 %) SLA	System Software 1 22 (16.18 %) Active Directory 2 7 (5.147 %) MailMarshal 3 5 (3.676 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (0.735 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (0.735 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.735 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 16 (11.76 %) WSUS 2 15 (11.03 %) MOM 3 7 (5.147 %) MAILsweeper 4 6 (4.412 %) OpenView 5 5 (3.676 %) CiscoWorks 5 5 (3.676 %) NNM 6 3 (2.206 %) ServiceCenter 6 3 (2.206 %) Tivoli 6 3 (2.206 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 2 (1.471 %) AutoSys 7 2 (1.471 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 1 (0.735 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 49 (36.03 %) Microsoft 2 13 (9.559 %) Oracle 3 6 (4.412 %) HP 3 6 (4.412 %) VERITAS 4 5 (3.676 %) Symantec 4 5 (3.676 %) McAfee Security 4 5 (3.676 %) Cisco 5 3 (2.206 %) IBM 5 3 (2.206 %) Novell 5 3 (2.206 %) Peregrine 5 3 (2.206 %) Remedy 6 2 (1.471 %) VMware 6 2 (1.471 %) CA 7 1 (0.735 %) Progress