Gloucestershire Windows Vista Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista skills within the Gloucestershire 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 Vista over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	36
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	6.452 %	9.730 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£447
Average daily rate	£355	£451
% change on same period last year	-21.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£455
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£367
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.52
Average hourly rate	-	£28.52
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.81	£24.52
% change on same period last year	-31.44 %
Operating Systems Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	186	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.262 %	0.187 %
Daily rates quoted	46	72
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£393
Average daily rate	£360	£401
% change on same period last year	-10.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.96	£27.61
Average hourly rate	£17.16	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-39.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.37	£29.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows Vista South West

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 Vista
Demand Trend

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

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 Gloucestershire region.

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Gloucestershire region.

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 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
Cheltenham	-10	9	£355	-24.47 %

Windows Vista South West

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

1 32 (100.00 %) Windows 2 31 (96.88 %) Security Cleared 3 20 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2008 4 15 (46.88 %) DV Cleared 5 14 (43.75 %) Microsoft 5 14 (43.75 %) UNIX 6 12 (37.50 %) PKI 7 10 (31.25 %) Solaris 7 10 (31.25 %) SQL Server 8 9 (28.13 %) MS Exchange 8 9 (28.13 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 9 (28.13 %) SC Cleared 9 8 (25.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 8 (25.00 %) VMware 9 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2000

9 8 (25.00 %) ISA Server 10 7 (21.88 %) HNC 10 7 (21.88 %) Degree 11 6 (18.75 %) VMware ESX 11 6 (18.75 %) Service Management 11 6 (18.75 %) ITIL 11 6 (18.75 %) DMZ 12 5 (15.63 %) Finance 12 5 (15.63 %) Government 12 5 (15.63 %) Legal 13 4 (12.50 %) Electric 13 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 13 4 (12.50 %) Problem Management 13 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 13 4 (12.50 %) Smartcard

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Application Platforms 1 9 (28.13 %) MS Exchange 1 9 (28.13 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 6 (18.75 %) DMZ 2 1 (3.125 %) X.400 2 1 (3.125 %) X.500 2 1 (3.125 %) LDAP 2 1 (3.125 %) SMTP 2 1 (3.125 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (31.25 %) SQL Server
General 1 5 (15.63 %) Finance 1 5 (15.63 %) Government 1 5 (15.63 %) Legal 2 4 (12.50 %) Electric 2 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.125 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 10 (31.25 %) Consultant 1 10 (31.25 %) UNIX Support 2 5 (15.63 %) Security Architect 2 5 (15.63 %) Architect 2 5 (15.63 %) Support Specialist 3 4 (12.50 %) Solutions Architect 3 4 (12.50 %) Systems Support 3 4 (12.50 %) Technical Support 3 4 (12.50 %) UNIX Specialist 4 3 (9.375 %) Server Specialist 5 2 (6.250 %) Vista Consultant 5 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 1 (3.125 %) UNIX Consultant 6 1 (3.125 %) Messaging Specialist 6 1 (3.125 %) Solutions Designer 6 1 (3.125 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (3.125 %) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 12 (37.50 %) PKI 2 4 (12.50 %) Smartcard 3 1 (3.125 %) CESG 3 1 (3.125 %) Fat Client 3 1 (3.125 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 32 (100.00 %) Windows 2 20 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2008 3 14 (43.75 %) UNIX 4 10 (31.25 %) Solaris 5 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (3.125 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (96.88 %) Security Cleared 2 15 (46.88 %) DV Cleared 3 9 (28.13 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (18.75 %) ITIL 4 6 (18.75 %) Service Management 5 4 (12.50 %) Problem Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (3.125 %) Business Desktop Deployment	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.125 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 7 (21.88 %) HNC 1 7 (21.88 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.125 %) SLA 1 1 (3.125 %) CESG Infosec
System Software 1 8 (25.00 %) ISA Server 1 8 (25.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 6 (18.75 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 14 (43.75 %) Microsoft 2 8 (25.00 %) VMware 3 2 (6.250 %) Altiris 3 2 (6.250 %) HP