East of England Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton 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 Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	4
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	532	643
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.709 %	0.651 %
As % of the category below	53.52 %	53.41 %
Daily rates quoted	152	129
Average minimum daily rate	£244	£326
Average daily rate	£263	£336
% change on same period last year	-21.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£281	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	116	164
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.70	£19.58
Average hourly rate	£19.96	£20.72
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.22	£21.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	994	1204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.325 %	1.218 %
Daily rates quoted	266	286
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£336
Average daily rate	£305	£355
% change on same period last year	-14.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	177	230
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.37	£21.51
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£22.61
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.99	£23.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the East of England 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 East of England region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 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 East of England region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 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	180	£254	-0.41 %
Hertfordshire	-7	133	£332	-6.81 %
Essex	+1	108	£172	-49.41 %
Norfolk	+4	54	£252	-44.20 %
Suffolk	-3	24	£253	-16.45 %
Bedfordshire	+1	20	£277	+2.46 %
East Anglia	-6	17	£317	+39.19 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 331 (28.36 %) Microsoft 2 286 (24.51 %) Active Directory 3 229 (19.62 %) MS Office 4 220 (18.85 %) Windows 2000 5 199 (17.05 %) Windows XP 6 179 (15.34 %) SQL Server 7 154 (13.20 %) .NET 8 152 (13.02 %) Windows Server 2003 9 150 (12.85 %) Microsoft Certification 10 148 (12.68 %) SQL 11 147 (12.60 %) UNIX 12 144 (12.34 %) MS Exchange 13 135 (11.57 %) Cisco 14 131 (11.23 %) Linux 15 129 (11.05 %) Windows NT

16 120 (10.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 17 118 (10.11 %) TCP/IP 18 114 (9.769 %) MS Excel 19 109 (9.340 %) Firewall 20 100 (8.569 %) C# 21 99 (8.483 %) DNS 22 94 (8.055 %) MCSE 23 88 (7.541 %) C++ 23 88 (7.541 %) HP 24 84 (7.198 %) LAN 25 74 (6.341 %) Citrix 26 73 (6.255 %) XML 27 72 (6.170 %) VMware 28 71 (6.084 %) DHCP 29 68 (5.827 %) Java

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 154 (13.20 %) .NET 2 73 (6.255 %) XML 3 58 (4.970 %) ASP.NET 4 41 (3.513 %) HTML 5 33 (2.828 %) WebServices 6 28 (2.399 %) ASP 7 25 (2.142 %) CSS 8 24 (2.057 %) WinForms 8 24 (2.057 %) WCF 9 22 (1.885 %) WPF 10 20 (1.714 %) WebSphere 10 20 (1.714 %) ADO.NET 11 18 (1.542 %) J2EE 11 18 (1.542 %) J2ME 12 15 (1.285 %) JSP 12 15 (1.285 %) .NET Framework 13 13 (1.114 %) XSL 14 11 (0.943 %) UIQ 15 10 (0.857 %) AJAX 15 10 (0.857 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 144 (12.34 %) MS Exchange 2 120 (10.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 52 (4.456 %) IIS 4 49 (4.199 %) SharePoint 5 40 (3.428 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 32 (2.742 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 30 (2.571 %) Lotus Notes 8 21 (1.799 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 18 (1.542 %) BizTalk Server 10 17 (1.457 %) Tomcat 11 13 (1.114 %) Apache 12 11 (0.943 %) CMS 13 10 (0.857 %) Lotus Domino 14 9 (0.771 %) MQSeries 15 8 (0.686 %) JBoss 15 8 (0.686 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 6 (0.514 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 5 (0.428 %) IBM HTTP Server 18 4 (0.343 %) Office Project Server 18 4 (0.343 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 229 (19.62 %) MS Office 2 114 (9.769 %) MS Excel 3 14 (1.200 %) Photoshop 4 13 (1.114 %) MS Project 5 12 (1.028 %) MS PowerPoint 6 10 (0.857 %) MS Visio 7 4 (0.343 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.086 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 4 (0.343 %) SoftGrid 1 4 (0.343 %) SAP ERP 2 2 (0.171 %) assyst 2 2 (0.171 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (0.086 %) Axapta 3 1 (0.086 %) Oracle ERP 3 1 (0.086 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (0.086 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 118 (10.11 %) TCP/IP 2 109 (9.340 %) Firewall 3 99 (8.483 %) DNS 4 84 (7.198 %) LAN 5 71 (6.084 %) DHCP 6 60 (5.141 %) Internet 7 55 (4.713 %) WAN 8 49 (4.199 %) VPN 9 46 (3.942 %) SAN 10 37 (3.171 %) VoIP 11 31 (2.656 %) SMS 12 28 (2.399 %) Wireless 13 23 (1.971 %) Cisco PIX 14 16 (1.371 %) ISDN 15 13 (1.114 %) MPLS 15 13 (1.114 %) Network Security 16 12 (1.028 %) WLAN 17 11 (0.943 %) SMTP 17 11 (0.943 %) ADSL 17 11 (0.943 %) Cisco IOS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 179 (15.34 %) SQL Server 2 57 (4.884 %) SQL Server 2005 3 46 (3.942 %) SQL Server 2000 4 25 (2.142 %) MySQL 5 20 (1.714 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 18 (1.542 %) Datawarehouse 7 17 (1.457 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 15 (1.285 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 14 (1.200 %) DTS 9 14 (1.200 %) DB2 10 13 (1.114 %) Oracle 10g 11 12 (1.028 %) OLAP 12 10 (0.857 %) RDBMS 13 9 (0.771 %) MS Access 14 8 (0.686 %) Oracle 9i 14 8 (0.686 %) Crystal Reports 14 8 (0.686 %) SQL Server 7 15 6 (0.514 %) Oracle Reports 15 6 (0.514 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 5 (0.428 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 24 (2.057 %) MSI 2 19 (1.628 %) InstallShield 3 16 (1.371 %) Subversion 4 13 (1.114 %) Eclipse 5 10 (0.857 %) Bugzilla 6 9 (0.771 %) Visual Studio 7 8 (0.686 %) JUnit 7 8 (0.686 %) TestDirector 8 7 (0.600 %) Ant 9 4 (0.343 %) QuickTest Pro 9 4 (0.343 %) LabVIEW 10 3 (0.257 %) FrontPage 10 3 (0.257 %) Selenium 10 3 (0.257 %) FitNesse 11 2 (0.171 %) Rational Robot 11 2 (0.171 %) PVCS 11 2 (0.171 %) VSS/SourceSafe 12 1 (0.086 %) Oracle Forms 12 1 (0.086 %) ClearCase 12 1 (0.086 %) OpenDeploy	General 1 44 (3.770 %) Finance 2 37 (3.171 %) Telecoms 3 31 (2.656 %) Retail 4 26 (2.228 %) Government 5 17 (1.457 %) Electronics 6 16 (1.371 %) Back Office 6 16 (1.371 %) Pharmaceutical 7 15 (1.285 %) Manufacturing 7 15 (1.285 %) Insurance 8 13 (1.114 %) Legal 9 10 (0.857 %) Automotive 10 9 (0.771 %) Health 10 9 (0.771 %) Education 10 9 (0.771 %) Games 11 6 (0.514 %) Marketing 11 6 (0.514 %) Mobile Games 12 5 (0.428 %) Multimedia 13 4 (0.343 %) Electric 13 4 (0.343 %) Chemicals 14 3 (0.257 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 200 (17.14 %) Analyst 2 178 (15.25 %) Developer 3 133 (11.40 %) Support Engineer 4 97 (8.312 %) Support Analyst 5 74 (6.341 %) Desktop Support 6 60 (5.141 %) 2nd Line Support 7 54 (4.627 %) Server Engineer 8 52 (4.456 %) Administrator 8 52 (4.456 %) Network Engineer 9 46 (3.942 %) Desktop Engineer 10 45 (3.856 %) Server Support 11 44 (3.770 %) 3rd Line Support 11 44 (3.770 %) Helpdesk Support 12 42 (3.599 %) C# Developer 13 37 (3.171 %) Service Analyst 13 37 (3.171 %) Network Support 14 35 (2.999 %) Consultant 14 35 (2.999 %) .NET Developer 15 33 (2.828 %) Server Support Engineer 16 32 (2.742 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 28 (2.399 %) Blackberry 2 21 (1.799 %) NHS 3 16 (1.371 %) Client/Server 4 14 (1.200 %) AS400 5 12 (1.028 %) Multithreading 6 11 (0.943 %) Video Conferencing 7 10 (0.857 %) Device Driver 7 10 (0.857 %) Handset 8 9 (0.771 %) PKI 9 8 (0.686 %) Thin Client 9 8 (0.686 %) Fat Client 10 7 (0.600 %) N-Tier 10 7 (0.600 %) MPEG 10 7 (0.600 %) Mainframe 10 7 (0.600 %) Replication 10 7 (0.600 %) Clustering 10 7 (0.600 %) PDA 11 6 (0.514 %) PMI 11 6 (0.514 %) German Language 12 5 (0.428 %) Cryptography
Operating Systems 1 220 (18.85 %) Windows 2000 2 199 (17.05 %) Windows XP 3 152 (13.02 %) Windows Server 2003 4 147 (12.60 %) UNIX 5 131 (11.23 %) Linux 6 129 (11.05 %) Windows NT 7 34 (2.913 %) Solaris 8 28 (2.399 %) Windows Mobile 9 14 (1.200 %) AIX 10 9 (0.771 %) HPUX 11 8 (0.686 %) NetWare 12 7 (0.600 %) SUSE 13 5 (0.428 %) Ubuntu 14 4 (0.343 %) Mac OS X 14 4 (0.343 %) Windows CE 15 3 (0.257 %) Symbian OS 16 2 (0.171 %) Windows Vista 17 1 (0.086 %) Embedded Linux 17 1 (0.086 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (5.313 %) ITIL 2 54 (4.627 %) Security Cleared 3 45 (3.856 %) Migration 4 27 (2.314 %) SC Cleared 5 26 (2.228 %) Configuration Management 6 25 (2.142 %) Project Management 7 24 (2.057 %) OO 8 22 (1.885 %) Agile Software Development 9 18 (1.542 %) Network Design 10 17 (1.457 %) Software Testing 10 17 (1.457 %) UML 11 15 (1.285 %) PRINCE2 11 15 (1.285 %) Service Delivery 12 14 (1.200 %) Disaster Recovery 12 14 (1.200 %) ERP 12 14 (1.200 %) Continuous Integration 12 14 (1.200 %) Data Migration 13 13 (1.114 %) Test Scripting 13 13 (1.114 %) Workflow 14 12 (1.028 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 148 (12.68 %) SQL 2 100 (8.569 %) C# 3 88 (7.541 %) C++ 4 68 (5.827 %) Java 5 59 (5.056 %) C 6 43 (3.685 %) VB 7 32 (2.742 %) JavaScript 8 30 (2.571 %) Perl 8 30 (2.571 %) Transact-SQL 9 28 (2.399 %) VB.NET 10 21 (1.799 %) PowerShell 11 20 (1.714 %) Shell Script 12 19 (1.628 %) Python 13 17 (1.457 %) VBScript 14 16 (1.371 %) PL/SQL 15 11 (0.943 %) VC++ 15 11 (0.943 %) PHP 16 8 (0.686 %) VB6 17 6 (0.514 %) Ruby 17 6 (0.514 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 150 (12.85 %) Microsoft Certification 2 94 (8.055 %) MCSE 3 56 (4.799 %) MCP 4 45 (3.856 %) Cisco Certification 5 39 (3.342 %) Degree 6 31 (2.656 %) CCNA 7 19 (1.628 %) MCSA 8 11 (0.943 %) CCNP 9 9 (0.771 %) ISEB 9 9 (0.771 %) MCDST 10 6 (0.514 %) PhD 10 6 (0.514 %) ITIL Certification 11 5 (0.428 %) Citrix Certification 11 5 (0.428 %) HNC 12 4 (0.343 %) HND 12 4 (0.343 %) MCDBA 12 4 (0.343 %) CCDP 12 4 (0.343 %) ECDL 13 3 (0.257 %) MOS 13 3 (0.257 %) CNE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 30 (2.571 %) SLA 2 16 (1.371 %) QA 3 4 (0.343 %) WCAG 3 4 (0.343 %) WAI 4 3 (0.257 %) ISO9000 5 2 (0.171 %) ISO9001 5 2 (0.171 %) GxP 6 1 (0.086 %) ISO27001 6 1 (0.086 %) GLP	System Software 1 286 (24.51 %) Active Directory 2 28 (2.399 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 21 (1.799 %) VMware ESX 4 19 (1.628 %) NetBackup 5 12 (1.028 %) Terminal Server 6 9 (0.771 %) Terminal Services 6 9 (0.771 %) NDS 7 8 (0.686 %) Backup Exec 8 7 (0.600 %) ISA Server 9 6 (0.514 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 5 (0.428 %) MetaFrame 10 5 (0.428 %) VMware Workstation 11 4 (0.343 %) Oracle RAC 11 4 (0.343 %) Oracle RMAN 12 3 (0.257 %) NFS 12 3 (0.257 %) VMware Server 13 2 (0.171 %) MSMQ 14 1 (0.086 %) Samba 14 1 (0.086 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 42 (3.599 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 25 (2.142 %) OpenView 3 13 (1.114 %) Tivoli 4 11 (0.943 %) MOM 4 11 (0.943 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 8 (0.686 %) CiscoWorks 5 8 (0.686 %) WSUS 6 7 (0.600 %) NNM 6 7 (0.600 %) Tivoli NetView 7 6 (0.514 %) ZENworks 8 4 (0.343 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 4 (0.343 %) Unicenter 9 3 (0.257 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 3 (0.257 %) HP Data Protector 10 2 (0.171 %) DameWare 10 2 (0.171 %) ARCserve 10 2 (0.171 %) OVSD 11 1 (0.086 %) AutoSys 11 1 (0.086 %) EMC Navisphere 11 1 (0.086 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 331 (28.36 %) Microsoft 2 135 (11.57 %) Cisco 3 88 (7.541 %) HP 4 74 (6.341 %) Citrix 5 72 (6.170 %) VMware 6 68 (5.827 %) Oracle 7 51 (4.370 %) IBM 8 42 (3.599 %) Dell 9 38 (3.256 %) Novell 10 37 (3.171 %) Lotus 11 22 (1.885 %) Remedy 12 21 (1.799 %) VERITAS 13 19 (1.628 %) Symbian 14 17 (1.457 %) EMC 14 17 (1.457 %) Intel 14 17 (1.457 %) Red Hat 15 13 (1.114 %) McAfee Security 15 13 (1.114 %) SAP 16 12 (1.028 %) Compaq 16 12 (1.028 %) Symantec