Edinburgh Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Edinburgh 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	9	6
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	79	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.118 %
As % of the category below	56.83 %	50.92 %
Daily rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£310
Average daily rate	£266	£329
% change on same period last year	-19.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£279	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£15.13
Average hourly rate	£15.69	£15.72
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.88	£16.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	139	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.183 %	0.231 %
Daily rates quoted	26	39
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£311
Average daily rate	£302	£328
% change on same period last year	-7.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.48	£22.96
Average hourly rate	£18.70	£23.59
% change on same period last year	-20.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.91	£24.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows Scotland

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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 4 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 Edinburgh region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 50 (32.26 %) Microsoft 2 47 (30.32 %) Finance 3 45 (29.03 %) Active Directory 4 37 (23.87 %) Windows Server 2003 5 35 (22.58 %) Unix 6 28 (18.06 %) Windows XP 7 24 (15.48 %) Windows 2000 8 23 (14.84 %) Citrix 8 23 (14.84 %) .NET 8 23 (14.84 %) SQL Server 9 21 (13.55 %) SQL 10 20 (12.90 %) Windows NT 11 19 (12.26 %) MS Exchange 12 18 (11.61 %) MS Excel 13 17 (10.97 %) C#

13 17 (10.97 %) Visual Studio 13 17 (10.97 %) ASP.NET 13 17 (10.97 %) Banking 14 16 (10.32 %) AJAX 14 16 (10.32 %) J2EE 14 16 (10.32 %) HP 15 15 (9.677 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 15 15 (9.677 %) ITIL 15 15 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 15 (9.677 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 16 13 (8.387 %) Migration 16 13 (8.387 %) MS Office 17 12 (7.742 %) AIX 17 12 (7.742 %) HTML 17 12 (7.742 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (14.84 %) .NET 2 17 (10.97 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (10.32 %) J2EE 3 16 (10.32 %) AJAX 4 15 (9.677 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 5 12 (7.742 %) HTML 6 9 (5.806 %) XML 6 9 (5.806 %) CSS 7 8 (5.161 %) XHTML 8 5 (3.226 %) WebSphere 9 3 (1.935 %) jQuery 9 3 (1.935 %) Middleware 10 1 (0.645 %) Motif 10 1 (0.645 %) X-Windows 10 1 (0.645 %) WinForms 10 1 (0.645 %) Spring 10 1 (0.645 %) WebServices 10 1 (0.645 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (0.645 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 19 (12.26 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 10 (6.452 %) IIS 4 8 (5.161 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 7 (4.516 %) TeamSite 6 5 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 3 (1.935 %) WebLogic 7 3 (1.935 %) CICS 7 3 (1.935 %) Lotus Notes 7 3 (1.935 %) Apache 8 2 (1.290 %) Oracle HTTP Server 8 2 (1.290 %) IBM HTTP Server 9 1 (0.645 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.645 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 18 (11.61 %) MS Excel 2 13 (8.387 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.290 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 8 (5.161 %) DNS 1 8 (5.161 %) Internet 2 7 (4.516 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (4.516 %) SMS 3 6 (3.871 %) SAN 4 5 (3.226 %) DHCP 5 3 (1.935 %) WAN 5 3 (1.935 %) LAN 6 2 (1.290 %) VoIP 6 2 (1.290 %) HTTP 6 2 (1.290 %) Intranet 6 2 (1.290 %) Firewall 6 2 (1.290 %) Network Security 7 1 (0.645 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.645 %) VPN 7 1 (0.645 %) WINS 7 1 (0.645 %) FTP 7 1 (0.645 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (14.84 %) SQL Server 2 12 (7.742 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (4.516 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 7 (4.516 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (2.581 %) MS Access 5 3 (1.935 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (1.935 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (1.290 %) TOAD 6 2 (1.290 %) DB2 7 1 (0.645 %) ETL 7 1 (0.645 %) SQLPlus 7 1 (0.645 %) GIS 7 1 (0.645 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (0.645 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.645 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.645 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 17 (10.97 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (4.516 %) OpenDeploy 3 3 (1.935 %) ClearCase 4 2 (1.290 %) WinRunner 4 2 (1.290 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (0.645 %) Ant 5 1 (0.645 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 47 (30.32 %) Finance 2 17 (10.97 %) Banking 3 9 (5.806 %) Retail 4 8 (5.161 %) Financial Institution 5 6 (3.871 %) Telecoms 5 6 (3.871 %) Retail Banking 6 5 (3.226 %) Back Office 7 3 (1.935 %) Government 7 3 (1.935 %) Pensions 8 2 (1.290 %) Law 8 2 (1.290 %) Electronics 9 1 (0.645 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.645 %) Legal 9 1 (0.645 %) Publishing 9 1 (0.645 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 32 (20.65 %) Analyst 2 24 (15.48 %) Developer 3 12 (7.742 %) Administrator 4 11 (7.097 %) Technical Analyst 4 11 (7.097 %) Project Manager 4 11 (7.097 %) Consultant 4 11 (7.097 %) Support Analyst 5 10 (6.452 %) Web Developer 6 9 (5.806 %) Desktop Support 7 8 (5.161 %) Technical Support 8 6 (3.871 %) Support Engineer 8 6 (3.871 %) 3rd Line Support 8 6 (3.871 %) Architect 8 6 (3.871 %) DBA 9 5 (3.226 %) Service Analyst 9 5 (3.226 %) SQL DBA 10 4 (2.581 %) IT Administrator 10 4 (2.581 %) Desktop Engineer 10 4 (2.581 %) Oracle Developer 10 4 (2.581 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.161 %) Blackberry 2 6 (3.871 %) Mainframe 3 4 (2.581 %) Clustering 3 4 (2.581 %) Asset Management 4 3 (1.935 %) Statistics 5 2 (1.290 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.645 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.645 %) SecurID 6 1 (0.645 %) Device Driver 6 1 (0.645 %) Handset 6 1 (0.645 %) APACS
Operating Systems 1 37 (23.87 %) Windows Server 2003 2 35 (22.58 %) Unix 3 28 (18.06 %) Windows XP 4 24 (15.48 %) Windows 2000 5 20 (12.90 %) Windows NT 6 12 (7.742 %) AIX 7 6 (3.871 %) Solaris 8 5 (3.226 %) Linux 9 3 (1.935 %) NetWare 9 3 (1.935 %) zOS 10 1 (0.645 %) Windows CE 10 1 (0.645 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (9.677 %) ITIL 2 13 (8.387 %) Migration 3 7 (4.516 %) Service Management 4 4 (2.581 %) Change Management 5 3 (1.935 %) Workflow 5 3 (1.935 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (1.935 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (1.935 %) Network Load Balancing 6 2 (1.290 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (1.290 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (1.290 %) CRM 6 2 (1.290 %) CAD 6 2 (1.290 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (0.645 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (0.645 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (0.645 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.645 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (0.645 %) PRINCE 7 1 (0.645 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (0.645 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 21 (13.55 %) SQL 2 17 (10.97 %) C# 3 11 (7.097 %) JavaScript 4 8 (5.161 %) C 5 6 (3.871 %) VBScript 6 5 (3.226 %) REXX 6 5 (3.226 %) Shell Script 6 5 (3.226 %) JCL 6 5 (3.226 %) Java 7 4 (2.581 %) Perl 7 4 (2.581 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (1.935 %) PL/SQL 8 3 (1.935 %) C++ 8 3 (1.935 %) VB 8 3 (1.935 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 10 (6.452 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (5.161 %) MCSE 3 5 (3.226 %) Degree 4 2 (1.290 %) MCP 5 1 (0.645 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (5.161 %) SLA	System Software 1 45 (29.03 %) Active Directory 2 4 (2.581 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 4 (2.581 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (1.935 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 3 (1.935 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (1.935 %) NetBackup 4 2 (1.290 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.645 %) PowerConvert 5 1 (0.645 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 15 (9.677 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 8 (5.161 %) Tivoli 3 5 (3.226 %) OpenView 4 4 (2.581 %) MIMEsweeper 4 4 (2.581 %) MOM 5 1 (0.645 %) EMC NetWorker 5 1 (0.645 %) SCOM 5 1 (0.645 %) BMC PATROL 5 1 (0.645 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.645 %) Legato 5 1 (0.645 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 50 (32.26 %) Microsoft 2 23 (14.84 %) Citrix 3 16 (10.32 %) HP 4 12 (7.742 %) VMware 5 9 (5.806 %) Oracle 5 9 (5.806 %) VERITAS 6 8 (5.161 %) Novell 6 8 (5.161 %) IBM 7 7 (4.516 %) Cisco 7 7 (4.516 %) Remedy 8 6 (3.871 %) Interwoven 9 5 (3.226 %) Sun 10 4 (2.581 %) Intel 10 4 (2.581 %) NetApp 11 3 (1.935 %) McAfee Security 11 3 (1.935 %) Lotus 12 2 (1.290 %) Apple 12 2 (1.290 %) BMC 12 2 (1.290 %) Compaq 12 2 (1.290 %) Altiris