East Midlands Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	5
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	265	248
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.340 %	0.279 %
As % of the category below	65.43 %	64.58 %
Daily rates quoted	32	31
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£297
Average daily rate	£297	£307
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£314
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.95	£15.92
Average hourly rate	£14.71	£16.68
% change on same period last year	-11.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.47	£17.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.80	£20.20
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Operating Systems East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	405	384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.431 %
Daily rates quoted	72	64
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£286
Average daily rate	£323	£294
% change on same period last year	+9.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	63
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.23	£16.27
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£17.19
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.77	£18.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£23.07
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the East Midlands 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Nottinghamshire	-4	60	£315	-6.72 %
2	Leicestershire	+2	58	£328	+25.98 %
3	Northamptonshire	-2	53	£281	+9.22 %
4	Derbyshire	+7	41	£305	+281.25 %
5	Lincolnshire	+1	33	£142	-

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 216 (35.41 %) Active Directory 2 156 (25.57 %) Microsoft 3 120 (19.67 %) Windows 2000 4 115 (18.85 %) MS Office 4 115 (18.85 %) Windows XP 5 102 (16.72 %) Unix 6 88 (14.43 %) Citrix 7 72 (11.80 %) Windows Server 2003 8 66 (10.82 %) Cisco 8 66 (10.82 %) Windows NT 8 66 (10.82 %) Migration 9 65 (10.66 %) Microsoft Certification 10 64 (10.49 %) .NET 11 61 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 12 56 (9.180 %) SAN

13 54 (8.852 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 53 (8.689 %) SQL Server 15 52 (8.525 %) Finance 16 47 (7.705 %) Oracle 17 44 (7.213 %) ASP.NET 18 42 (6.885 %) SQL 18 42 (6.885 %) MCSE 19 40 (6.557 %) Novell 19 40 (6.557 %) MS Excel 20 38 (6.230 %) C# 21 36 (5.902 %) Internet 22 35 (5.738 %) ITIL 23 34 (5.574 %) Linux 24 31 (5.082 %) MCP 24 31 (5.082 %) LAN

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 64 (10.49 %) .NET 2 44 (7.213 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (4.590 %) XML 4 26 (4.262 %) WebServices 5 16 (2.623 %) ASP 6 14 (2.295 %) HTML 6 14 (2.295 %) WinForms 7 11 (1.803 %) WCF 8 10 (1.639 %) XSL 8 10 (1.639 %) XSLT 9 6 (0.984 %) MAPI 9 6 (0.984 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (0.820 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 5 (0.820 %) WebSphere 10 5 (0.820 %) SAP Basis 11 4 (0.656 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 4 (0.656 %) CAML 12 3 (0.492 %) SAP XI 13 2 (0.328 %) WMI 13 2 (0.328 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 61 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 2 54 (8.852 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 20 (3.279 %) SharePoint 3 20 (3.279 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 18 (2.951 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 17 (2.787 %) IIS 6 12 (1.967 %) Lotus Notes 7 11 (1.803 %) GroupWise 8 10 (1.639 %) WebLogic 8 10 (1.639 %) Apache 9 7 (1.148 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 6 (0.984 %) BizTalk Server 11 4 (0.656 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 4 (0.656 %) LiveLink 12 3 (0.492 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 2 (0.328 %) SAS 13 2 (0.328 %) Commerce Server 13 2 (0.328 %) OpenROAD 13 2 (0.328 %) WebSphere MQ 14 1 (0.164 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 115 (18.85 %) MS Office 2 40 (6.557 %) MS Excel 3 7 (1.148 %) Acrobat 3 7 (1.148 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (0.984 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 11 (1.803 %) Teamcenter 2 7 (1.148 %) SoftGrid 3 5 (0.820 %) Navision 4 3 (0.492 %) SAP xMII 5 2 (0.328 %) BPCS 6 1 (0.164 %) Oracle 11i 6 1 (0.164 %) Great Plains 6 1 (0.164 %) Axapta 6 1 (0.164 %) SAP R/3 6 1 (0.164 %) Oracle EBS 6 1 (0.164 %) Summit 6 1 (0.164 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 56 (9.180 %) SAN 2 36 (5.902 %) Internet 3 31 (5.082 %) LAN 4 30 (4.918 %) WAN 5 25 (4.098 %) TCP/IP 6 18 (2.951 %) VPN 6 18 (2.951 %) DNS 7 14 (2.295 %) DHCP 8 12 (1.967 %) Firewall 9 10 (1.639 %) Wireless 10 7 (1.148 %) VoIP 10 7 (1.148 %) Intranet 11 6 (0.984 %) WINS 11 6 (0.984 %) Cisco IPT 12 5 (0.820 %) IP Telephony 12 5 (0.820 %) Extranet 13 3 (0.492 %) SMS 13 3 (0.492 %) VLAN 14 2 (0.328 %) Network Security 14 2 (0.328 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (8.689 %) SQL Server 2 15 (2.459 %) SQL Server 2000 3 10 (1.639 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (1.475 %) Oracle Reports 5 8 (1.311 %) Crystal Reports 6 7 (1.148 %) DB2 6 7 (1.148 %) SQL Server 7 7 6 (0.984 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (0.984 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 4 (0.656 %) Oracle 10g 8 4 (0.656 %) BusinessObjects 8 4 (0.656 %) Informix 8 4 (0.656 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (0.492 %) Ingres 10 2 (0.328 %) Oracle 9i 10 2 (0.328 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 1 (0.164 %) MySQL 11 1 (0.164 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 1 (0.164 %) RDBMS 11 1 (0.164 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 10 (1.639 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (0.492 %) MSI 3 2 (0.328 %) FrontPage 3 2 (0.328 %) WinRunner 3 2 (0.328 %) LoadRunner	General 1 52 (8.525 %) Finance 2 23 (3.770 %) Government 3 21 (3.443 %) Manufacturing 4 14 (2.295 %) Banking 5 13 (2.131 %) Health 6 9 (1.475 %) Retail 7 6 (0.984 %) Aerospace 8 5 (0.820 %) Telecoms 8 5 (0.820 %) Local Government 9 4 (0.656 %) Military 9 4 (0.656 %) Automotive 9 4 (0.656 %) Legal 10 3 (0.492 %) Construction 10 3 (0.492 %) Back Office 11 2 (0.328 %) Pharmaceutical 11 2 (0.328 %) Publishing 11 2 (0.328 %) Insurance 11 2 (0.328 %) Retail Banking 12 1 (0.164 %) Marketing 12 1 (0.164 %) Law
Job Titles 1 138 (22.62 %) Analyst 2 64 (10.49 %) Support Analyst 3 53 (8.689 %) Developer 4 46 (7.541 %) Support Engineer 5 42 (6.885 %) 2nd Line Support 6 37 (6.066 %) 1st Line Support 7 36 (5.902 %) 3rd Line Support 8 34 (5.574 %) Technical Support 8 34 (5.574 %) Desktop Support 8 34 (5.574 %) Helpdesk Support 9 32 (5.246 %) Helpdesk Analyst 10 30 (4.918 %) Architect 11 28 (4.590 %) .NET Developer 12 26 (4.262 %) Technical Analyst 13 25 (4.098 %) Support Technician 14 21 (3.443 %) Service Analyst 14 21 (3.443 %) Service Desk Analyst 14 21 (3.443 %) PC Support 15 20 (3.279 %) Solutions Architect 16 18 (2.951 %) Infrastructure Manager	Miscellaneous 1 20 (3.279 %) Client/Server 2 19 (3.115 %) Clustering 3 12 (1.967 %) Blackberry 4 10 (1.639 %) NHS 4 10 (1.639 %) AS400 5 6 (0.984 %) Beowulf 5 6 (0.984 %) Mainframe 5 6 (0.984 %) Management Information System 6 4 (0.656 %) Thin Client 6 4 (0.656 %) PACS 6 4 (0.656 %) Fat Client 6 4 (0.656 %) EPoS 7 3 (0.492 %) Smartphone 7 3 (0.492 %) PDA 8 2 (0.328 %) Statistics 8 2 (0.328 %) Mathematics 8 2 (0.328 %) Computer Science 8 2 (0.328 %) Tandem 8 2 (0.328 %) Handset 8 2 (0.328 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 120 (19.67 %) Windows 2000 2 115 (18.85 %) Windows XP 3 102 (16.72 %) Unix 4 72 (11.80 %) Windows Server 2003 5 66 (10.82 %) Windows NT 6 34 (5.574 %) Linux 7 30 (4.918 %) Solaris 8 18 (2.951 %) AIX 8 18 (2.951 %) NetWare 9 8 (1.311 %) Windows CE 10 7 (1.148 %) IRIX 11 3 (0.492 %) Symbian OS 11 3 (0.492 %) Windows Mobile 11 3 (0.492 %) HPUX 12 2 (0.328 %) OS/400 12 2 (0.328 %) zOS 13 1 (0.164 %) Mac OS X 13 1 (0.164 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 66 (10.82 %) Migration 2 35 (5.738 %) ITIL 3 26 (4.262 %) Data Migration 4 23 (3.770 %) PRINCE2 5 20 (3.279 %) PLM 6 15 (2.459 %) Project Management 7 13 (2.131 %) OO 8 11 (1.803 %) Disaster Recovery 8 11 (1.803 %) Data Management 9 10 (1.639 %) PDM 9 10 (1.639 %) Problem Management 10 8 (1.311 %) Requirements Analysis 10 8 (1.311 %) CRM 10 8 (1.311 %) UML 11 7 (1.148 %) Technical Architecture 12 5 (0.820 %) Logistics 12 5 (0.820 %) Incident Management 12 5 (0.820 %) ERP 12 5 (0.820 %) CAD 13 4 (0.656 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 42 (6.885 %) SQL 2 38 (6.230 %) C# 3 24 (3.934 %) C++ 4 20 (3.279 %) VB.NET 5 17 (2.787 %) C 6 16 (2.623 %) VB 7 11 (1.803 %) VC++ 7 11 (1.803 %) Java 8 10 (1.639 %) Perl 9 6 (0.984 %) JavaScript 9 6 (0.984 %) Shell Script 9 6 (0.984 %) VBA 10 4 (0.656 %) VB6 10 4 (0.656 %) Korn 10 4 (0.656 %) PL/SQL 11 3 (0.492 %) Fortran 11 3 (0.492 %) VBScript 12 1 (0.164 %) Embedded C++ 12 1 (0.164 %) Transact-SQL 12 1 (0.164 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 65 (10.66 %) Microsoft Certification 2 42 (6.885 %) MCSE 3 31 (5.082 %) MCP 4 10 (1.639 %) MCSA 5 8 (1.311 %) Citrix Certification 6 7 (1.148 %) CCNA 6 7 (1.148 %) Cisco Certification 6 7 (1.148 %) Degree 7 6 (0.984 %) CCA 8 3 (0.492 %) ISEB 8 3 (0.492 %) CNE 8 3 (0.492 %) Novell Certification 9 2 (0.328 %) A+ Certification 9 2 (0.328 %) CCEA 9 2 (0.328 %) PMI Certification 9 2 (0.328 %) MCDST 9 2 (0.328 %) CCNP 9 2 (0.328 %) MCAD 9 2 (0.328 %) MCSD 10 1 (0.164 %) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (2.623 %) SLA 2 6 (0.984 %) QA 3 2 (0.328 %) PCI DSS 3 2 (0.328 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.328 %) WCAG 3 2 (0.328 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.164 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 216 (35.41 %) Active Directory 2 13 (2.131 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 10 (1.639 %) Terminal Services 4 5 (0.820 %) ISA Server 4 5 (0.820 %) NDS 5 4 (0.656 %) Oracle RAC 5 4 (0.656 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (0.328 %) Oracle RMAN 6 2 (0.328 %) NetBackup 6 2 (0.328 %) NFS 7 1 (0.164 %) MSMQ 7 1 (0.164 %) MetaFrame 7 1 (0.164 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 20 (3.279 %) EMC TimeFinder 2 12 (1.967 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 7 (1.148 %) MOM 4 6 (0.984 %) DameWare 5 5 (0.820 %) WSUS 6 3 (0.492 %) DirXML 7 2 (0.328 %) ZENworks 7 2 (0.328 %) Tivoli 7 2 (0.328 %) BMC Marimba 8 1 (0.164 %) ServiceCenter 8 1 (0.164 %) SCOM 8 1 (0.164 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 1 (0.164 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 156 (25.57 %) Microsoft 2 88 (14.43 %) Citrix 3 66 (10.82 %) Cisco 4 47 (7.705 %) Oracle 5 40 (6.557 %) Novell 6 25 (4.098 %) VMware 7 24 (3.934 %) EMC 8 17 (2.787 %) SAP 9 15 (2.459 %) HP 10 13 (2.131 %) Lotus 10 13 (2.131 %) Red Hat 11 12 (1.967 %) Dell 12 10 (1.639 %) IBM 13 9 (1.475 %) VERITAS 13 9 (1.475 %) Symantec 14 8 (1.311 %) Sun 15 7 (1.148 %) Adobe 15 7 (1.148 %) Remedy 16 6 (0.984 %) CheckPoint 17 5 (0.820 %) McAfee Security