East Midlands Windows NT Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the East Midlands 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 NT over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Argyll and Bute Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henlow Herefordshire Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Stroud Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	66
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	12	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	3.883 %	5.738 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£114	£243
Average daily rate	£120	£252
% change on same period last year	-52.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£125	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£230	£289
% change on same period last year	-20.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.40	£11.50
Average hourly rate	£19.85	£12.05
% change on same period last year	+64.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.31	£12.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.15	£20.54
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Operating Systems East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	309	488
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.487 %	0.523 %
Daily rates quoted	65	50
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£291
Average daily rate	£261	£304
% change on same period last year	-13.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.84	£16.25
Average hourly rate	£15.84	£17.83
% change on same period last year	-11.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.85	£19.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Windows NT England

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 NT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows NT across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows NT across the East Midlands region.

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Windows NT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Leicestershire	+19	6	£120	-50.13 %
Derbyshire	+8	5	-	-

Windows NT England

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 22 (100.00 %) Windows 2 21 (95.45 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (68.18 %) Windows XP 4 14 (63.64 %) MS Office 5 9 (40.91 %) Microsoft 5 9 (40.91 %) Finance 6 8 (36.36 %) MS Excel 7 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft Certification 8 6 (27.27 %) MS PowerPoint 8 6 (27.27 %) Back Office 8 6 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 8 6 (27.27 %) Active Directory 8 6 (27.27 %) MCSE 9 5 (22.73 %) Citrix 9 5 (22.73 %) Novell

10 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 3 (13.64 %) MCP 12 2 (9.091 %) ITIL 12 2 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 13 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 1 (4.545 %) Windows Vista 13 1 (4.545 %) LANDesk 13 1 (4.545 %) Legato 13 1 (4.545 %) Symantec 13 1 (4.545 %) Blackberry 13 1 (4.545 %) MIMEsweeper 13 1 (4.545 %) MS Exchange 13 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 13 1 (4.545 %) SLA

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 14 (63.64 %) MS Office 2 8 (36.36 %) MS Excel 3 6 (27.27 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP	General 1 9 (40.91 %) Finance 2 6 (27.27 %) Back Office 3 2 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 9 (40.91 %) Analyst 1 9 (40.91 %) 1st Line Support 2 7 (31.82 %) Helpdesk Support 3 6 (27.27 %) Support Engineer 4 5 (22.73 %) Service Analyst 4 5 (22.73 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 5 (22.73 %) Desktop Support 5 4 (18.18 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 4 (18.18 %) Desktop Engineer 6 3 (13.64 %) Technical Engineer 6 3 (13.64 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 3 (13.64 %) Technical Support 7 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 7 2 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 8 1 (4.545 %) Server Support 8 1 (4.545 %) 2nd Line Support 8 1 (4.545 %) Field Engineer 8 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support Analyst 8 1 (4.545 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.545 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 22 (100.00 %) Windows 2 21 (95.45 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (68.18 %) Windows XP 4 6 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (4.545 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.091 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (27.27 %) MCSE 3 3 (13.64 %) MCP 4 1 (4.545 %) CCNA 4 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.545 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) Legato 1 1 (4.545 %) MIMEsweeper
Vendors 1 9 (40.91 %) Microsoft 2 5 (22.73 %) Citrix 2 5 (22.73 %) Novell 3 1 (4.545 %) Symantec 3 1 (4.545 %) LANDesk 3 1 (4.545 %) HP