Hampshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	44
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	73	98
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.099 %
As % of the category below	12.27 %	11.82 %
Daily rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£283
Average daily rate	£238	£293
% change on same period last year	-18.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£256	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£269
% change on same period last year	-16.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.32	£15.78
Average hourly rate	£18.74	£17.64
% change on same period last year	+6.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.16	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.28	£16.75
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Operating Systems Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	595	829
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.793 %	0.839 %
Daily rates quoted	83	172
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£342
Average daily rate	£350	£353
% change on same period last year	-1.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	154	202
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.93	£26.27
Average hourly rate	£25.93	£27.82
% change on same period last year	-6.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.94	£29.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows XP South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hampshire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows XP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Basingstoke	+17	20	-	-
Southampton	+11	15	-	-
Portsmouth	+3	14	£365	-
Fareham	+5	4	-	-
Eastleigh	-	1	-	-
Winchester	+3	1	-	-
Havant	-2	1	-	-
Farnborough	+3	1	-	-

Windows XP South East

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 140 (99.29 %) Windows 2 73 (51.77 %) MS Office 3 50 (35.46 %) Microsoft 4 46 (32.62 %) Active Directory 5 40 (28.37 %) MS Excel 6 25 (17.73 %) Windows 2000 7 20 (14.18 %) Security Cleared 8 15 (10.64 %) Windows NT 9 13 (9.220 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 11 (7.801 %) ITIL 11 10 (7.092 %) Microsoft Certification 12 9 (6.383 %) TCP/IP 12 9 (6.383 %) MS Exchange 12 9 (6.383 %) LAN 12 9 (6.383 %) MCP

13 8 (5.674 %) SQL 13 8 (5.674 %) .NET 13 8 (5.674 %) Novell 14 7 (4.965 %) AS400 14 7 (4.965 %) Government 14 7 (4.965 %) Lotus 14 7 (4.965 %) Lotus Notes 15 6 (4.255 %) Linux 15 6 (4.255 %) MS Project 15 6 (4.255 %) Cisco 15 6 (4.255 %) MCSE 15 6 (4.255 %) HP 15 6 (4.255 %) Dell 15 6 (4.255 %) Manufacturing 15 6 (4.255 %) Back Office

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 Development 1 8 (5.674 %) .NET 2 5 (3.546 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (0.709 %) J2EE 3 1 (0.709 %) XML 3 1 (0.709 %) EDI 3 1 (0.709 %) Middleware 3 1 (0.709 %) WBIMB 3 1 (0.709 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 13 (9.220 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (6.383 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (4.965 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (2.837 %) GroupWise 4 4 (2.837 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 3 (2.128 %) Apache 6 2 (1.418 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.709 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 1 (0.709 %) WebSphere MQ 7 1 (0.709 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 73 (51.77 %) MS Office 2 40 (28.37 %) MS Excel 3 6 (4.255 %) MS Project 4 2 (1.418 %) Pro/ENGINEER 5 1 (0.709 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 9 (6.383 %) TCP/IP 1 9 (6.383 %) LAN 2 5 (3.546 %) WAN 2 5 (3.546 %) VPN 3 3 (2.128 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.709 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.709 %) IPsec 4 1 (0.709 %) VLAN 4 1 (0.709 %) iSCSI 4 1 (0.709 %) DNS 4 1 (0.709 %) SAN 4 1 (0.709 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.546 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.128 %) MySQL 3 1 (0.709 %) DB2 3 1 (0.709 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.709 %) GIS 3 1 (0.709 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (2.128 %) ARTiSAN 2 2 (1.418 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (1.418 %) TestDirector 2 2 (1.418 %) LabVIEW 3 1 (0.709 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.709 %) FrontPage 3 1 (0.709 %) MSI
General 1 7 (4.965 %) Government 2 6 (4.255 %) Manufacturing 2 6 (4.255 %) Back Office 3 5 (3.546 %) Military 4 4 (2.837 %) Marketing 5 3 (2.128 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.418 %) Electronics 6 2 (1.418 %) Retail 6 2 (1.418 %) Police 7 1 (0.709 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 34 (24.11 %) 2nd Line Support 2 26 (18.44 %) Desktop Support 3 23 (16.31 %) Analyst 4 22 (15.60 %) Support Engineer 5 16 (11.35 %) Desktop Engineer 6 14 (9.929 %) Support Technician 7 12 (8.511 %) Support Analyst 8 10 (7.092 %) 1st Line Support 8 10 (7.092 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 10 (7.092 %) Helpdesk Support 9 8 (5.674 %) Service Analyst 10 7 (4.965 %) Service Desk Analyst 10 7 (4.965 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 6 (4.255 %) Developer 12 5 (3.546 %) Junior 12 5 (3.546 %) Software Engineer 12 5 (3.546 %) Desktop Support Analyst 12 5 (3.546 %) Rollout Engineer 12 5 (3.546 %) Desktop Analyst 13 4 (2.837 %) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.965 %) AS400 2 3 (2.128 %) Client/Server 2 3 (2.128 %) Blackberry 3 2 (1.418 %) EPoS 3 2 (1.418 %) PDA 4 1 (0.709 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.709 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 140 (99.29 %) Windows 2 25 (17.73 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (10.64 %) Windows NT 4 6 (4.255 %) Linux 5 5 (3.546 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (2.128 %) UNIX 6 3 (2.128 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (1.418 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.709 %) SUSE 8 1 (0.709 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (14.18 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (7.801 %) ITIL 3 6 (4.255 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (2.837 %) CTC Cleared 4 4 (2.837 %) UML 4 4 (2.837 %) OO 4 4 (2.837 %) Migration 5 3 (2.128 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (1.418 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (1.418 %) Change Management 6 2 (1.418 %) Risk Management 6 2 (1.418 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (1.418 %) Service Management 7 1 (0.709 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (0.709 %) Workflow 7 1 (0.709 %) Validation 7 1 (0.709 %) TDD 7 1 (0.709 %) Asset Management 7 1 (0.709 %) Document Management 7 1 (0.709 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 8 (5.674 %) SQL 2 5 (3.546 %) C# 3 3 (2.128 %) PHP 3 3 (2.128 %) VBScript 3 3 (2.128 %) VB.NET 3 3 (2.128 %) VBA 4 2 (1.418 %) VC++ 4 2 (1.418 %) C++
Qualifications 1 10 (7.092 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (6.383 %) MCP 3 6 (4.255 %) MCSE 4 3 (2.128 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (1.418 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.128 %) SLA 2 1 (0.709 %) GLP
System Software 1 46 (32.62 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.709 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (0.709 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (0.709 %) MOM 1 1 (0.709 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 50 (35.46 %) Microsoft 2 8 (5.674 %) Novell 3 7 (4.965 %) Lotus 4 6 (4.255 %) HP 4 6 (4.255 %) Dell 4 6 (4.255 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.418 %) SAP 5 2 (1.418 %) Citrix 5 2 (1.418 %) Red Hat 5 2 (1.418 %) Symantec 5 2 (1.418 %) VMware 6 1 (0.709 %) Remedy 6 1 (0.709 %) Oracle 6 1 (0.709 %) IBM