East of England Windows CE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows CE skills within the East of England 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 CE over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows CE
Location Banbury Berkshire Brighton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Oxfordshire Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West Swindon Thames Valley UK Warwickshire Wells West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	141
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	15	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.459 %	0.264 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£338	£306
% change on same period last year	+10.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£334
% change on same period last year	+8.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£41.63	-
Average hourly rate	£45.38	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£49.13	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.00	£36.37
% change on same period last year	+20.96 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1028	1137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.356 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	255	291
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£326
Average daily rate	£300	£345
% change on same period last year	-13.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	215
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.36	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.06
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows CE 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 CE
Demand Trend

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

Windows CE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows CE across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows CE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows CE within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire	+3	15	£338	+10.20 %

Windows CE England

Windows CE
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Windows CE 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 CE.

1 15 (75.00 %) C++ 2 10 (50.00 %) C 3 9 (45.00 %) Linux 4 8 (40.00 %) Apache 4 8 (40.00 %) PHP 4 8 (40.00 %) MySQL 5 7 (35.00 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (35.00 %) Wi-Fi 6 5 (25.00 %) Degree 7 4 (20.00 %) Windows 8 3 (15.00 %) Symbian OS 8 3 (15.00 %) .NET 8 3 (15.00 %) C# 8 3 (15.00 %) Flash 8 3 (15.00 %) Symbian

8 3 (15.00 %) PDA 8 3 (15.00 %) WinForms 9 1 (5.000 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (5.000 %) Embedded Linux 9 1 (5.000 %) Electronics 9 1 (5.000 %) Embedded C 9 1 (5.000 %) Embedded C++

Windows CE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Windows CE 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 CE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (15.00 %) .NET 1 3 (15.00 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 8 (40.00 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 7 (35.00 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (35.00 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (40.00 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (15.00 %) Flash	General 1 1 (5.000 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 12 (60.00 %) Software Engineer 2 8 (40.00 %) Developer 3 5 (25.00 %) C++ Developer 4 4 (20.00 %) Linux Engineer 5 3 (15.00 %) C# Developer 5 3 (15.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 2 (10.00 %) PHP Developer 6 2 (10.00 %) MySQL Developer 6 2 (10.00 %) WinForms Developer 6 2 (10.00 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (5.000 %) Embedded Software Engineer 7 1 (5.000 %) C++/CSharp Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (15.00 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 9 (45.00 %) Linux 2 4 (20.00 %) Windows 3 3 (15.00 %) Symbian OS 4 1 (5.000 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (5.000 %) Embedded Linux	Programming Languages 1 15 (75.00 %) C++ 2 10 (50.00 %) C 3 8 (40.00 %) PHP 4 3 (15.00 %) C# 5 1 (5.000 %) Embedded C 5 1 (5.000 %) Embedded C++
Qualifications 1 5 (25.00 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (15.00 %) Symbian