Gloucestershire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Gloucestershire 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 7 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 Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes 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 Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peacehaven Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex 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 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 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	3
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	74	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.129 %
As % of the category below	67.27 %	68.54 %
Daily rates quoted	38	36
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£322
Average daily rate	£362	£343
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.36	£16.60
Average hourly rate	£16.41	£17.82
% change on same period last year	-7.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.47	£19.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.63
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Operating Systems Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	110	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	49	51
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£359
Average daily rate	£367	£373
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.25	£22.08
Average hourly rate	£30.19	£23.10
% change on same period last year	+30.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.13	£24.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.92	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Gloucestershire region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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	0	44	£369	-0.03 %
Gloucester	-3	12	£303	-12.41 %

Windows South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 48 (39.67 %) Security Cleared 2 29 (23.97 %) Windows 2000 3 28 (23.14 %) Active Directory 4 23 (19.01 %) Microsoft 5 22 (18.18 %) DV Cleared 6 19 (15.70 %) Unix 7 16 (13.22 %) Windows Server 2003 8 14 (11.57 %) MS Office 8 14 (11.57 %) HP 8 14 (11.57 %) Windows XP 9 13 (10.74 %) SC Cleared 10 12 (9.917 %) VMware 11 10 (8.264 %) Finance 12 9 (7.438 %) Windows Vista 12 9 (7.438 %) Linux

12 9 (7.438 %) Oracle 12 9 (7.438 %) Sophos 12 9 (7.438 %) Citrix 13 8 (6.612 %) Microsoft Certification 13 8 (6.612 %) SQL Server 13 8 (6.612 %) MCSE 13 8 (6.612 %) Windows NT 13 8 (6.612 %) IBM 13 8 (6.612 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 8 (6.612 %) VMware ESX 13 8 (6.612 %) Government 14 7 (5.785 %) Legal 14 7 (5.785 %) Migration 14 7 (5.785 %) VMware Infrastructure 14 7 (5.785 %) ITIL

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 5 (4.132 %) .NET 1 5 (4.132 %) J2EE 2 3 (2.479 %) WPF 2 3 (2.479 %) Silverlight 3 2 (1.653 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 2 (1.653 %) HTML 3 2 (1.653 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.826 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.826 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.826 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 8 (6.612 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 6 (4.959 %) IIS 3 5 (4.132 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (3.306 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (2.479 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (0.826 %) Morello 6 1 (0.826 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.826 %) Apache 6 1 (0.826 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 14 (11.57 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.306 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.826 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.826 %) RoboHelp 3 1 (0.826 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.826 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 6 (4.959 %) DMZ 2 5 (4.132 %) SAN 3 4 (3.306 %) Internet 4 3 (2.479 %) X.400 4 3 (2.479 %) SMTP 4 3 (2.479 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (1.653 %) Ethernet 5 2 (1.653 %) LDAP 5 2 (1.653 %) SMS 5 2 (1.653 %) WINS 5 2 (1.653 %) DNS 6 1 (0.826 %) Intranet 6 1 (0.826 %) X.500 6 1 (0.826 %) BIG-IP 6 1 (0.826 %) Network Security 6 1 (0.826 %) WAN 6 1 (0.826 %) Broadband 6 1 (0.826 %) LAN 6 1 (0.826 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (6.612 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.653 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (1.653 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.826 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 4 (3.306 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.826 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (0.826 %) MSI 2 1 (0.826 %) GoLive 2 1 (0.826 %) FrontPage	General 1 10 (8.264 %) Finance 2 8 (6.612 %) Government 3 7 (5.785 %) Legal 4 5 (4.132 %) Manufacturing 4 5 (4.132 %) Telecoms 5 3 (2.479 %) Marketing 6 2 (1.653 %) Banking 6 2 (1.653 %) Aerospace 7 1 (0.826 %) Education 7 1 (0.826 %) Electric 7 1 (0.826 %) Health 7 1 (0.826 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.826 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.826 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.826 %) Auditing 7 1 (0.826 %) Advertising 7 1 (0.826 %) Military
Job Titles 1 22 (18.18 %) Consultant 2 15 (12.40 %) Analyst 2 15 (12.40 %) 2nd Line Support 3 9 (7.438 %) Support Engineer 4 8 (6.612 %) Architect 4 8 (6.612 %) Desktop Support 5 7 (5.785 %) Developer 5 7 (5.785 %) Support Technician 6 6 (4.959 %) 3rd Line Support 6 6 (4.959 %) Test Analyst 6 6 (4.959 %) Integration Analyst 7 5 (4.132 %) Technical Consultant 7 5 (4.132 %) Support Analyst 7 5 (4.132 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 5 (4.132 %) Desktop Engineer 7 5 (4.132 %) Integration Test Analyst 8 4 (3.306 %) Security Architect 8 4 (3.306 %) Windows Technical Consultant 8 4 (3.306 %) Applications Packager 8 4 (3.306 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.479 %) Smartcard 1 3 (2.479 %) PKI 2 2 (1.653 %) Mainframe 2 2 (1.653 %) Fat Client 2 2 (1.653 %) IBM Mainframe 2 2 (1.653 %) Thin Client 3 1 (0.826 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.826 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.826 %) NHS 3 1 (0.826 %) Clustering 3 1 (0.826 %) CESG 3 1 (0.826 %) CESG CLAS 3 1 (0.826 %) Asset Management 3 1 (0.826 %) PDA 3 1 (0.826 %) Taxonomies 3 1 (0.826 %) Physics 3 1 (0.826 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 29 (23.97 %) Windows 2000 2 19 (15.70 %) Unix 3 16 (13.22 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (11.57 %) Windows XP 5 9 (7.438 %) Linux 5 9 (7.438 %) Windows Vista 6 8 (6.612 %) Windows NT 7 5 (4.132 %) Solaris 8 2 (1.653 %) HPUX 8 2 (1.653 %) Windows CE 8 2 (1.653 %) VxWorks 9 1 (0.826 %) Tru64 9 1 (0.826 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (0.826 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (39.67 %) Security Cleared 2 22 (18.18 %) DV Cleared 3 13 (10.74 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (5.785 %) ITIL 4 7 (5.785 %) Configuration Management 4 7 (5.785 %) Project Management 4 7 (5.785 %) Migration 5 6 (4.959 %) RUP 6 5 (4.132 %) Risk Management 6 5 (4.132 %) Unified Process 6 5 (4.132 %) Automated Testing 7 4 (3.306 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (2.479 %) UML 8 3 (2.479 %) OO 9 2 (1.653 %) Test Scripting 10 1 (0.826 %) Data Migration 10 1 (0.826 %) Service Management 10 1 (0.826 %) Change Management 10 1 (0.826 %) Data Security 10 1 (0.826 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 6 (4.959 %) C# 2 5 (4.132 %) VB 3 4 (3.306 %) VBScript 3 4 (3.306 %) C 4 3 (2.479 %) SQL 4 3 (2.479 %) C++ 5 2 (1.653 %) Delphi 5 2 (1.653 %) Java 5 2 (1.653 %) VBA 5 2 (1.653 %) VC++ 6 1 (0.826 %) Embedded C 6 1 (0.826 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (0.826 %) XAML 6 1 (0.826 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.826 %) Perl 6 1 (0.826 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 8 (6.612 %) MCSE 1 8 (6.612 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (2.479 %) Degree 3 1 (0.826 %) Chartered Engineer 3 1 (0.826 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.826 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.826 %) CCDA 3 1 (0.826 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.826 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.653 %) SLA 2 1 (0.826 %) QA	System Software 1 28 (23.14 %) Active Directory 2 8 (6.612 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (5.785 %) ISA Server 3 7 (5.785 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 6 (4.959 %) Backup Exec 5 3 (2.479 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (1.653 %) RACF 7 1 (0.826 %) NetBackup 7 1 (0.826 %) ClearTrust
Systems Management 1 2 (1.653 %) Tivoli 1 2 (1.653 %) WSUS 2 1 (0.826 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.826 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.826 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 23 (19.01 %) Microsoft 2 14 (11.57 %) HP 3 12 (9.917 %) VMware 4 9 (7.438 %) Sophos 4 9 (7.438 %) Oracle 4 9 (7.438 %) Citrix 5 8 (6.612 %) IBM 6 5 (4.132 %) Symantec 7 4 (3.306 %) NetApp 7 4 (3.306 %) Dell 7 4 (3.306 %) Intel 8 3 (2.479 %) McAfee Security 9 2 (1.653 %) Novell 9 2 (1.653 %) Sun 10 1 (0.826 %) EMC 10 1 (0.826 %) Cisco 10 1 (0.826 %) Adobe 10 1 (0.826 %) StorageTek 10 1 (0.826 %) VERITAS 10 1 (0.826 %) ADIC