Gloucestershire Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP 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 XP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Aylesbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	23
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	15	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	7.500 %	19.13 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£221
Average daily rate	£265	£224
% change on same period last year	+18.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£226
UK excluding London average daily rate	£230	£256
% change on same period last year	-10.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.60	£17.70
Average hourly rate	£15.10	£19.69
% change on same period last year	-23.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.60	£21.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.51	£17.17
% change on same period last year	-3.86 %
Operating Systems Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	200	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.270 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	70	79
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£400
Average daily rate	£370	£408
% change on same period last year	-9.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£24.80	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+5.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.10	£25.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.70	£22.66
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Windows XP 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 XP
Demand Trend

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

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Windows XP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Gloucester	-12	5	£303	-10.37 %
Cirencester	0	2	-	-
Stroud	-	1	-	-
Cheltenham	-5	1	-	-

Windows XP South West

Windows XP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 17 (100.00 %) Windows 2 10 (58.82 %) Windows 2000 3 9 (52.94 %) MS Office 4 7 (41.18 %) Active Directory 5 5 (29.41 %) Microsoft 5 5 (29.41 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 6 3 (17.65 %) MS Excel 6 3 (17.65 %) McAfee Security 7 2 (11.76 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 8 1 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (5.882 %) Intranet 8 1 (5.882 %) Internet

8 1 (5.882 %) Citrix 8 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 8 1 (5.882 %) Windows NT 8 1 (5.882 %) UNIX 8 1 (5.882 %) MCSE

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 9 (52.94 %) MS Office 2 3 (17.65 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (5.882 %) Intranet 1 1 (5.882 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 3 (17.65 %) Desktop Support 1 3 (17.65 %) Support Technician 2 2 (11.76 %) Technical Support 2 2 (11.76 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (11.76 %) Support Specialist 2 2 (11.76 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (11.76 %) Technical Specialist 2 2 (11.76 %) Technical Support Specialist 2 2 (11.76 %) Deskside Support 3 1 (5.882 %) Senior Desktop Support 3 1 (5.882 %) Desktop Support Team Leader 3 1 (5.882 %) Desktop Team Leader 3 1 (5.882 %) Network Support 3 1 (5.882 %) Support Team Leader 3 1 (5.882 %) PC Support 3 1 (5.882 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (5.882 %) Team Leader	Operating Systems 1 17 (100.00 %) Windows 2 10 (58.82 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (29.41 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (5.882 %) Windows NT 5 1 (5.882 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) Disaster Recovery	Qualifications 1 1 (5.882 %) MCSE 1 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 7 (41.18 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (29.41 %) Microsoft 2 3 (17.65 %) McAfee Security 3 1 (5.882 %) Citrix