Falkirk Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Falkirk 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Argyll and Bute Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£304
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.83	-
Average hourly rate	£16.58	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.74	£20.46
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Operating Systems Falkirk
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.82	-
Average hourly rate	£16.68	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.53	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.84	£22.14
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
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 Falkirk 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 Falkirk 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 Falkirk region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Falkirk region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Falkirk region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Grangemouth	-	1	-	-

Windows Scotland

Windows
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 5 (83.33 %) Windows 2000 1 5 (83.33 %) VPN 1 5 (83.33 %) Blackberry 2 4 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 3 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 3 3 (50.00 %) DNS 3 3 (50.00 %) Broadband 3 3 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (16.67 %) MCDST 4 1 (16.67 %) PDA 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (16.67 %) SLA 4 1 (16.67 %) Cisco 4 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft

4 1 (16.67 %) CCNA 4 1 (16.67 %) ITIL 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (16.67 %) MCSE 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 1 (16.67 %) Dell 4 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 4 1 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (16.67 %) Lotus 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (83.33 %) VPN 2 3 (50.00 %) DNS 2 3 (50.00 %) Broadband 2 3 (50.00 %) TCP/IP	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Desktop Support 2 3 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (50.00 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (50.00 %) Desktop Support Analyst 2 3 (50.00 %) Desktop Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (16.67 %) Server Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (83.33 %) Blackberry 2 1 (16.67 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 5 (83.33 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (66.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) MCSE 1 1 (16.67 %) CCNA 1 1 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (16.67 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (16.67 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Cisco 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 1 1 (16.67 %) Dell 1 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 1 1 (16.67 %) Lotus