East Sussex Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the East Sussex 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	8	6
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	22	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	75.86 %	66.18 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£175
Average daily rate	£270	£175
% change on same period last year	+54.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.82	£22.22
Average hourly rate	£17.65	£23.67
% change on same period last year	-25.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.48	£25.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	29	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.069 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£223
Average daily rate	£270	£227
% change on same period last year	+19.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.82	£21.71
Average hourly rate	£17.36	£23.08
% change on same period last year	-24.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.90	£24.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows South East

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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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 Sussex region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the East Sussex 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 Sussex 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
Brighton	-5	13	£270	+54.28 %
Hastings	-	2	-	-

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 29 (39.73 %) Windows 2000 2 19 (26.03 %) SQL 2 19 (26.03 %) .NET 2 19 (26.03 %) Microsoft 3 18 (24.66 %) Active Directory 4 17 (23.29 %) MS Office 5 15 (20.55 %) ASP.NET 5 15 (20.55 %) TCP/IP 6 14 (19.18 %) Windows XP 6 14 (19.18 %) VB.NET 6 14 (19.18 %) Finance 7 11 (15.07 %) Systems Analysis 7 11 (15.07 %) Crystal Reports 7 11 (15.07 %) WAN 8 10 (13.70 %) Degree

8 10 (13.70 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (12.33 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (12.33 %) Computer Science 10 8 (10.96 %) VPN 10 8 (10.96 %) Microsoft Certification 10 8 (10.96 %) MS Excel 10 8 (10.96 %) Insurance 11 7 (9.589 %) Linux 11 7 (9.589 %) LAN 11 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 5 (6.849 %) ERP 12 5 (6.849 %) Visual Studio 13 4 (5.479 %) C# 13 4 (5.479 %) C++

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 19 (26.03 %) .NET 2 15 (20.55 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (5.479 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (4.110 %) WebServices 4 3 (4.110 %) ASP 5 2 (2.740 %) HTML 5 2 (2.740 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.370 %) MFC 6 1 (1.370 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (1.370 %) CSS 6 1 (1.370 %) XML 6 1 (1.370 %) DOM 6 1 (1.370 %) WinForms 6 1 (1.370 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 9 (12.33 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (4.110 %) SharePoint 4 2 (2.740 %) IIS 5 1 (1.370 %) Apache
Applications 1 17 (23.29 %) MS Office 2 8 (10.96 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.370 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 15 (20.55 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (15.07 %) WAN 3 8 (10.96 %) VPN 4 7 (9.589 %) LAN 5 4 (5.479 %) SAN 6 3 (4.110 %) Firewall 7 2 (2.740 %) Internet 8 1 (1.370 %) MPLS 8 1 (1.370 %) IP Telephony 8 1 (1.370 %) Intranet 8 1 (1.370 %) DNS 8 1 (1.370 %) SMTP 8 1 (1.370 %) FTP 8 1 (1.370 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (15.07 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (4.110 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.740 %) SQL Server 4 1 (1.370 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (6.849 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.740 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (1.370 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.370 %) MSI	General 1 14 (19.18 %) Finance 2 8 (10.96 %) Insurance 3 4 (5.479 %) Local Government 3 4 (5.479 %) Government 4 1 (1.370 %) Law 4 1 (1.370 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.370 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 28 (38.36 %) Analyst 2 12 (16.44 %) Programmer 2 12 (16.44 %) .NET Programmer 3 11 (15.07 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 3 11 (15.07 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 3 11 (15.07 %) VB.NET Programmer 3 11 (15.07 %) Analyst Programmer 4 8 (10.96 %) Developer 5 7 (9.589 %) Desktop Support 5 7 (9.589 %) Support Engineer 6 6 (8.219 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 5 (6.849 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 5 (6.849 %) IT Manager 8 4 (5.479 %) Helpdesk Manager 8 4 (5.479 %) Support Analyst 8 4 (5.479 %) Systems Administrator 8 4 (5.479 %) C# Developer 8 4 (5.479 %) Administrator 8 4 (5.479 %) IT Support Engineer 9 3 (4.110 %) PC Support	Miscellaneous 1 9 (12.33 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.740 %) AS400 2 2 (2.740 %) Streaming Video 2 2 (2.740 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.370 %) Handset 3 1 (1.370 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 29 (39.73 %) Windows 2000 2 14 (19.18 %) Windows XP 3 10 (13.70 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (9.589 %) Linux 5 4 (5.479 %) Windows CE 5 4 (5.479 %) SUSE 6 2 (2.740 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (1.370 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (15.07 %) Systems Analysis 2 5 (6.849 %) ERP 3 4 (5.479 %) Service Management 3 4 (5.479 %) ITSM 4 2 (2.740 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (2.740 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (2.740 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (2.740 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.370 %) Migration 5 1 (1.370 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.370 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.370 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.370 %) UML 5 1 (1.370 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 19 (26.03 %) SQL 2 14 (19.18 %) VB.NET 3 4 (5.479 %) C# 3 4 (5.479 %) C++ 4 3 (4.110 %) C 5 2 (2.740 %) Embedded C 6 1 (1.370 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (1.370 %) DHTML 6 1 (1.370 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.370 %) Perl 6 1 (1.370 %) Python 6 1 (1.370 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.370 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 10 (13.70 %) Degree 2 8 (10.96 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.370 %) MCP 3 1 (1.370 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.370 %) CCIE 3 1 (1.370 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.110 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (24.66 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.110 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (2.740 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 1 (1.370 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 19 (26.03 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.479 %) Red Hat 2 4 (5.479 %) VMware 3 3 (4.110 %) McAfee Security 4 2 (2.740 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.740 %) Cisco 4 2 (2.740 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.370 %) Avaya 5 1 (1.370 %) BMC 5 1 (1.370 %) Reuters 5 1 (1.370 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.370 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.370 %) Infragistics 5 1 (1.370 %) Telelogic 5 1 (1.370 %) Hummingbird