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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows Vista skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Vista over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the England region.

 Microsoft Windows Vista
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank226184299
Rank change year-on-year
Down-42Up+115
Matching contract IT job ads285294337
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England0.636 %0.804 %0.439 %
As % of the Operating Systems category3.528 %4.480 %2.233 %
Daily rates quoted779071
Average daily rate£239£315£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.20 %-1.560 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£135£160£150
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£362£375£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£233£305£283
% change year-on-year
-23.77 %+7.960 %
Hourly rates quoted896089
Average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.10£10.55
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.60£35.23£37.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.50£17.50£17.50
% change year-on-year
-17.14 %-
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8078656215095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England18.02 %17.95 %19.67 %
Daily rates quoted353519934013
Average daily rate£375£332£376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.95 %-11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£185£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted9259242546
Average hourly rate£16.00£18.50£18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.51 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.47£37.02£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Windows Vista UKWindows Vista
UK

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Windows Vista
Demand Trend

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

England Windows Vista Demand Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Windows Vista Daily Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Windows Vista Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Windows Vista Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Windows Vista Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows Vista
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Vista within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-15116£275-20.28 %
South EastDown-2982£273-13.33 %
South WestDown-1734£233-26.88 %
North WestUp+823£80-68.00 %
YorkshireUp+1313--
East MidlandsDown-37£310+181.81 %
East of EnglandDown-77--
West MidlandsUp+64£135+35.00 %
North EastDown-42£80-71.92 %
South CoastNew entry-1--
Windows Vista UKWindows Vista
UK

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1588 (100.00 %)Windows
2273 (46.43 %)Windows XP
3255 (43.37 %)Microsoft
4253 (43.03 %)Active Directory
5227 (38.61 %)Windows Server 2003
6183 (31.12 %)MS Office
7143 (24.32 %)Security Cleared
8137 (23.30 %)Windows Server 2008
9108 (18.37 %)MS Excel
10104 (17.69 %)Windows 2000
1183 (14.12 %)Windows 7
1278 (13.27 %)SC Cleared
1377 (13.10 %)MS Exchange
1475 (12.76 %)HP
1574 (12.59 %)DNS
1664 (10.88 %)VMware Infrastructure
1664 (10.88 %)VMware
1761 (10.37 %)TCP/IP
1860 (10.20 %)Finance
1959 (10.03 %)DHCP
1959 (10.03 %)Banking
2057 (9.694 %)Microsoft Certification
2154 (9.184 %)Citrix
2253 (9.014 %)SQL Server
2351 (8.673 %)ITIL
2448 (8.163 %)DV Cleared
2547 (7.993 %)Government
2644 (7.483 %)Blackberry
2742 (7.143 %)Exchange Server 2003
2840 (6.803 %)Windows 2000 Server

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
123 (3.912 %).NET
218 (3.061 %)XML
313 (2.211 %)ASP.NET
411 (1.871 %)Application Packaging
57 (1.190 %)HTML
57 (1.190 %)CSS
66 (1.020 %)XHTML
75 (0.850 %)Web Services
75 (0.850 %)XSLT
84 (0.680 %)AJAX
92 (0.340 %)XML Messaging
92 (0.340 %)WMI
92 (0.340 %)Middleware
92 (0.340 %)ASP
92 (0.340 %)DHTML
92 (0.340 %)EDI
101 (0.170 %)SOAP
101 (0.170 %)XSD
101 (0.170 %)SAML
101 (0.170 %)X-Windows
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
177 (13.10 %)MS Exchange
242 (7.143 %)Exchange Server 2003
336 (6.122 %)Exchange Server 2007
416 (2.721 %)SharePoint
513 (2.211 %)IIS
612 (2.041 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
711 (1.871 %)Lotus Notes
86 (1.020 %)Exchange Server 2000
95 (0.850 %)SharePoint Server 2007
104 (0.680 %)SharePoint Portal Server
113 (0.510 %)GroupWise
122 (0.340 %)CMS
131 (0.170 %)Apache
131 (0.170 %)Tomcat
131 (0.170 %)EPiServer
131 (0.170 %)Office Communications Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1183 (31.12 %)MS Office
2108 (18.37 %)MS Excel
313 (2.211 %)MS PowerPoint
44 (0.680 %)AutoCAD
53 (0.510 %)MS Visio
61 (0.170 %)Photoshop
61 (0.170 %)MS Project
61 (0.170 %)InfoPath
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (1.190 %)assyst
25 (0.850 %)SoftGrid
31 (0.170 %)SAP MM
31 (0.170 %)3000 Xtra
31 (0.170 %)Line 50
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
174 (12.59 %)DNS
261 (10.37 %)TCP/IP
359 (10.03 %)DHCP
439 (6.633 %)VPN
538 (6.463 %)Internet
635 (5.952 %)LAN
734 (5.782 %)WAN
831 (5.272 %)Firewall
917 (2.891 %)Network Security
1014 (2.381 %)SAN
1014 (2.381 %)LDAP
1113 (2.211 %)SMS
1212 (2.041 %)SSL
1311 (1.871 %)Wireless
149 (1.531 %)SMTP
158 (1.361 %)NAS
167 (1.190 %)VoIP
176 (1.020 %)X.400
176 (1.020 %)X.500
184 (0.680 %)Ethernet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
153 (9.014 %)SQL Server
229 (4.932 %)SQL Server 2005
316 (2.721 %)SQL Server 2008
412 (2.041 %)SQL Server 2000
56 (1.020 %)BusinessObjects XI
65 (0.850 %)Crystal Reports
74 (0.680 %)Oracle 10g
83 (0.510 %)BusinessObjects
92 (0.340 %)Oracle 8/8i
92 (0.340 %)Oracle 9i
92 (0.340 %)MySQL
92 (0.340 %)TOAD
101 (0.170 %)Adabas
101 (0.170 %)DTS
101 (0.170 %)SQL Server Integration Services
101 (0.170 %)NonStop SQL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (1.531 %)Visual Studio
19 (1.531 %)VSS/SourceSafe
26 (1.020 %)Visual Studio Team System
34 (0.680 %)InstallShield
43 (0.510 %)LoadRunner
52 (0.340 %)FitNesse
52 (0.340 %)Team Foundation Server
61 (0.170 %)TestDirector
61 (0.170 %)QuickTest Pro
61 (0.170 %)PVCS
61 (0.170 %)Bugzilla
61 (0.170 %)AdminStudio
61 (0.170 %)StarTeam
61 (0.170 %)QALoad
61 (0.170 %)Selenium
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
160 (10.20 %)Finance
259 (10.03 %)Banking
347 (7.993 %)Government
436 (6.122 %)Investment Banking
518 (3.061 %)Telecoms
610 (1.701 %)Retail
79 (1.531 %)Legal
79 (1.531 %)Manufacturing
79 (1.531 %)Education
87 (1.190 %)Multimedia
96 (1.020 %)Insurance
96 (1.020 %)Front Office
96 (1.020 %)Publishing
105 (0.850 %)Health
105 (0.850 %)Marketing
114 (0.680 %)Retail Banking
114 (0.680 %)Pensions
123 (0.510 %)Financial Institution
132 (0.340 %)Pharmaceutical
141 (0.170 %)Electronics
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1146 (24.83 %)Analyst
285 (14.46 %)Support Engineer
384 (14.29 %)Desktop Support
464 (10.88 %)Support Analyst
553 (9.014 %)Helpdesk Analyst
648 (8.163 %)Desktop Engineer
747 (7.993 %)Consultant
838 (6.463 %)Helpdesk Support
936 (6.122 %)Desktop Support Engineer
1031 (5.272 %)2nd Line Support
1130 (5.102 %)Service Desk Analyst
1227 (4.592 %)Service Analyst
1326 (4.422 %)1st Line Support
1423 (3.912 %)Desktop Analyst
1522 (3.741 %)Helpdesk Support Analyst
1619 (3.231 %)Technical Support
1619 (3.231 %)Infrastructure Specialist
1718 (3.061 %)Desktop Support Analyst
1817 (2.891 %)3rd Line Support
1916 (2.721 %)Trainer
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
144 (7.483 %)Blackberry
223 (3.912 %)PDA
315 (2.551 %)PKI
413 (2.211 %)German Language
511 (1.871 %)Clustering
610 (1.701 %)Fat Client
610 (1.701 %)Thin Client
77 (1.190 %)Device Driver
86 (1.020 %)NHS
95 (0.850 %)Video Conferencing
104 (0.680 %)Smartcard
104 (0.680 %)Open Source
113 (0.510 %)Management Information System
113 (0.510 %)EPoS
113 (0.510 %)Mainframe
122 (0.340 %)CESG
122 (0.340 %)CESG CLAS
122 (0.340 %)Arabic Language
122 (0.340 %)French Language
122 (0.340 %)AS400
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1588 (100.00 %)Windows
2273 (46.43 %)Windows XP
3227 (38.61 %)Windows Server 2003
4137 (23.30 %)Windows Server 2008
5104 (17.69 %)Windows 2000
683 (14.12 %)Windows 7
740 (6.803 %)Windows 2000 Server
828 (4.762 %)Linux
921 (3.571 %)UNIX
1013 (2.211 %)Solaris
1112 (2.041 %)Windows NT
1210 (1.701 %)Windows Mobile
138 (1.361 %)HPUX
146 (1.020 %)Mac OS X
155 (0.850 %)Ubuntu
164 (0.680 %)CentOS
172 (0.340 %)Red Hat Linux
172 (0.340 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
181 (0.170 %)NetWare
181 (0.170 %)AIX
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
151 (8.673 %)ITIL
240 (6.803 %)Migration
313 (2.211 %)Change Management
412 (2.041 %)Time Management
412 (2.041 %)Service Management
510 (1.701 %)Service Delivery
69 (1.531 %)Project Management
77 (1.190 %)Configuration Management
77 (1.190 %)Unit Testing
77 (1.190 %)Web Development
86 (1.020 %)Asset Management
95 (0.850 %)Data Migration
95 (0.850 %)Test Scripting
104 (0.680 %)Incident Management
104 (0.680 %)Integration Testing
104 (0.680 %)System Testing
104 (0.680 %)CAD
113 (0.510 %)PRINCE2
113 (0.510 %)OO
113 (0.510 %)Disaster Recovery
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
140 (6.803 %)C
235 (5.952 %)SQL
323 (3.912 %)C#
414 (2.381 %)VB
511 (1.871 %)Perl
610 (1.701 %)C++
610 (1.701 %)VBScript
79 (1.531 %)Java
79 (1.531 %)PowerShell
88 (1.361 %)JavaScript
88 (1.361 %)VB.NET
95 (0.850 %)PL/SQL
95 (0.850 %)T-SQL
102 (0.340 %)VB6
111 (0.170 %)PHP
111 (0.170 %)Python
111 (0.170 %)VC++
111 (0.170 %)Shell Script
111 (0.170 %)NATURAL
111 (0.170 %)Ruby
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1143 (24.32 %)Security Cleared
278 (13.27 %)SC Cleared
357 (9.694 %)Microsoft Certification
448 (8.163 %)DV Cleared
535 (5.952 %)MCSE
633 (5.612 %)MCP
718 (3.061 %)MCSA
813 (2.211 %)MCDST
912 (2.041 %)MCITP
912 (2.041 %)Degree
1010 (1.701 %)MCTS
119 (1.531 %)Network+ Certification
127 (1.190 %)MCDBA
127 (1.190 %)RHCE
127 (1.190 %)ITIL Certification
127 (1.190 %)JNCIA
127 (1.190 %)JNCIS
127 (1.190 %)JNCIE
127 (1.190 %)RHCA
134 (0.680 %)MOS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (3.231 %)SLA
26 (1.020 %)QA
34 (0.680 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.170 %)JSP 440
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1253 (43.03 %)Active Directory
264 (10.88 %)VMware Infrastructure
318 (3.061 %)VMware ESX
412 (2.041 %)Terminal Services
511 (1.871 %)Xen
66 (1.020 %)VMware Workstation
75 (0.850 %)Citrix Presentation Server
84 (0.680 %)XenApp
93 (0.510 %)ISA Server
102 (0.340 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
102 (0.340 %)XenDesktop
102 (0.340 %)Terminal Server
111 (0.170 %)vSphere
111 (0.170 %)MetaFrame
111 (0.170 %)RACF
111 (0.170 %)XenServer
111 (0.170 %)VMware Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
139 (6.633 %)SCCM
227 (4.592 %)SCOM
318 (3.061 %)MOM
417 (2.891 %)OpenView Configuration Management
417 (2.891 %)MSI
515 (2.551 %)OpenView
515 (2.551 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
613 (2.211 %)OVSD
78 (1.361 %)Backup Exec
86 (1.020 %)WSUS
93 (0.510 %)Norton AntiVirus
102 (0.340 %)HP NNM
102 (0.340 %)OVOW
102 (0.340 %)NetBackup
102 (0.340 %)HP Quality Center
102 (0.340 %)Tivoli
102 (0.340 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
102 (0.340 %)CiscoWorks
111 (0.170 %)Sysprep
111 (0.170 %)BMC Marimba
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1255 (43.37 %)Microsoft
275 (12.76 %)HP
364 (10.88 %)VMware
454 (9.184 %)Citrix
523 (3.912 %)Altiris
622 (3.741 %)Cisco
622 (3.741 %)Dell
717 (2.891 %)Remedy
812 (2.041 %)IBM
911 (1.871 %)Lotus
1010 (1.701 %)Apple
119 (1.531 %)Symantec
128 (1.361 %)Juniper
136 (1.020 %)Oracle
145 (0.850 %)Reuters
145 (0.850 %)Bloomberg
154 (0.680 %)Wyse
154 (0.680 %)Adobe
163 (0.510 %)Avaya
163 (0.510 %)Novell