East Yorkshire Windows Contracts

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

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle 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 Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe 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 Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge 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 Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	2
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	16	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	84.21 %	71.43 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£200
Average daily rate	£350	£215
% change on same period last year	+62.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£7.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£8.50
% change on same period last year	+282.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems East Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	19	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£213
Average daily rate	£350	£222
% change on same period last year	+57.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£10.60
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£12.30
% change on same period last year	+164.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows within the East Yorkshire 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
Hull	+2	15	£350	-
Beverley	-	1	-	-
Goole	-	1	-	-

Windows Yorkshire

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Yorkshire 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 9 (34.62 %) Windows XP 2 8 (30.77 %) Active Directory 3 7 (26.92 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 4 6 (23.08 %) MS Office 5 4 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 6 3 (11.54 %) ITIL 6 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (7.692 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (7.692 %) Unix 7 2 (7.692 %) Solaris 7 2 (7.692 %) UML 7 2 (7.692 %) OO 7 2 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino

7 2 (7.692 %) COM+ 7 2 (7.692 %) DCOM 7 2 (7.692 %) XML 7 2 (7.692 %) C# 7 2 (7.692 %) Delphi 7 2 (7.692 %) VoIP 7 2 (7.692 %) HP 7 2 (7.692 %) Lotus 8 1 (3.846 %) Red Hat 8 1 (3.846 %) NHS 8 1 (3.846 %) NetWeaver 8 1 (3.846 %) Dell 8 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Certification 8 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1 (3.846 %) SAN

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Yorkshire 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 2 (7.692 %) COM+ 1 2 (7.692 %) DCOM 1 2 (7.692 %) XML 2 1 (3.846 %) SAP XI 2 1 (3.846 %) .NET 2 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (3.846 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.846 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (3.846 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (23.08 %) MS Office 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (7.692 %) VoIP 3 1 (3.846 %) WAN 3 1 (3.846 %) LAN 3 1 (3.846 %) SAN 3 1 (3.846 %) VLAN 3 1 (3.846 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 1 (3.846 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (19.23 %) Systems Support 3 4 (15.38 %) Systems Engineer 3 4 (15.38 %) Analyst 3 4 (15.38 %) Desktop Engineer 3 4 (15.38 %) Systems Support Engineer 4 3 (11.54 %) Field Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (7.692 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) Rollout Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) 1st Line Support 5 2 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Support 6 1 (3.846 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) SAP Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Senior Network Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Team Leader 6 1 (3.846 %) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) NHS 1 1 (3.846 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 9 (34.62 %) Windows XP 2 7 (26.92 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (7.692 %) Unix 4 2 (7.692 %) Solaris 5 1 (3.846 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (11.54 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.692 %) UML 2 2 (7.692 %) OO 2 2 (7.692 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (3.846 %) Performance Management 3 1 (3.846 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) C# 1 2 (7.692 %) Delphi 2 1 (3.846 %) Java 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL 2 1 (3.846 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.846 %) CCNP 1 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 8 (30.77 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 2 (7.692 %) HP 2 2 (7.692 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.846 %) Red Hat 3 1 (3.846 %) McAfee Security 3 1 (3.846 %) SAP 3 1 (3.846 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.846 %) Dell 3 1 (3.846 %) VERITAS