Herefordshire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Herefordshire 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	1	19
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	24	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	88.89 %	25.29 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£224
Average daily rate	£298	£233
% change on same period last year	+27.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£242
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.33	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+13.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.67	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.63
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Operating Systems Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	27	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£266
Average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.33	£12.42
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£14.67
% change on same period last year	+15.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.67	£16.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.92	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
Windows West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead	+19	17	£301	+15.49 %
Harpenden	-	4	£285	-

Windows West Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 36 (50.70 %) Active Directory 2 29 (40.85 %) Citrix 3 25 (35.21 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 24 (33.80 %) Windows Server 2003 5 19 (26.76 %) Windows 2000 6 18 (25.35 %) SQL Server 6 18 (25.35 %) Government 7 17 (23.94 %) VBScript 7 17 (23.94 %) VB 7 17 (23.94 %) Lotus Domino 7 17 (23.94 %) Lotus 8 16 (22.54 %) SAN 8 16 (22.54 %) IBM 9 14 (19.72 %) SQL 9 14 (19.72 %) Security Cleared

10 13 (18.31 %) Microsoft 11 12 (16.90 %) DNS 11 12 (16.90 %) WMI 12 11 (15.49 %) HP 12 11 (15.49 %) Cisco 12 11 (15.49 %) ADSI 13 10 (14.08 %) DHCP 13 10 (14.08 %) Linux 14 9 (12.68 %) WINS 14 9 (12.68 %) Transact-SQL 14 9 (12.68 %) ADO 15 8 (11.27 %) OpenView 15 8 (11.27 %) Windows XP 15 8 (11.27 %) Firewall 15 8 (11.27 %) VMware

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 12 (16.90 %) WMI 2 11 (15.49 %) ADSI 3 9 (12.68 %) ADO 4 5 (7.042 %) .NET 5 4 (5.634 %) WCF 5 4 (5.634 %) WPF 6 3 (4.225 %) .NET Remoting 6 3 (4.225 %) ASP 7 1 (1.408 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (1.408 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 17 (23.94 %) Lotus Domino 2 7 (9.859 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (5.634 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (5.634 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (4.225 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (1.408 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (1.408 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.408 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (8.451 %) MS Office 2 3 (4.225 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (4.225 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Communications & Networking 1 16 (22.54 %) SAN 2 12 (16.90 %) DNS 3 10 (14.08 %) DHCP 4 9 (12.68 %) WINS 5 8 (11.27 %) Firewall 6 2 (2.817 %) NetScreen 6 2 (2.817 %) VPN 6 2 (2.817 %) LAN 6 2 (2.817 %) WAN 7 1 (1.408 %) GPRS 7 1 (1.408 %) Internet 7 1 (1.408 %) 3G 7 1 (1.408 %) TETRA 7 1 (1.408 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (25.35 %) SQL Server 2 4 (5.634 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.408 %) PostgreSQL
General 1 18 (25.35 %) Government 2 1 (1.408 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.408 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 9 (12.68 %) Analyst 2 8 (11.27 %) Consultant 2 8 (11.27 %) Administrator 3 6 (8.451 %) 3rd Line Support 3 6 (8.451 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (7.042 %) Support Technician 4 5 (7.042 %) PC Support 4 5 (7.042 %) Support Consultant 5 4 (5.634 %) Server Administrator 5 4 (5.634 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (5.634 %) IT Consultant 5 4 (5.634 %) Architect 5 4 (5.634 %) Developer 6 3 (4.225 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 3 (4.225 %) Team Leader 6 3 (4.225 %) 2nd Line Support 6 3 (4.225 %) Hyperion Enterprise Administrator 7 2 (2.817 %) Enterprise Architect 7 2 (2.817 %) .NET Software Engineer 7 2 (2.817 %) C# Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.042 %) Thin Client 1 5 (7.042 %) Fat Client 2 4 (5.634 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.408 %) Asset Management 3 1 (1.408 %) Pocket PC 3 1 (1.408 %) Statistics 3 1 (1.408 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.408 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 24 (33.80 %) Windows Server 2003 2 19 (26.76 %) Windows 2000 3 10 (14.08 %) Linux 4 8 (11.27 %) Windows XP 5 4 (5.634 %) Unix 5 4 (5.634 %) Ubuntu 6 3 (4.225 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (19.72 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (5.634 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (5.634 %) ITIL 3 3 (4.225 %) Workflow 3 3 (4.225 %) Data Management 3 3 (4.225 %) Business Desktop Deployment 4 2 (2.817 %) Network Load Balancing 4 2 (2.817 %) Service Management 4 2 (2.817 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.408 %) Information Security Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Security Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Information Security 5 1 (1.408 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Enterprise Architecture	Programming Languages 1 17 (23.94 %) VBScript 1 17 (23.94 %) VB 2 14 (19.72 %) SQL 3 9 (12.68 %) Transact-SQL 4 6 (8.451 %) C# 5 5 (7.042 %) C++ 6 2 (2.817 %) C 6 2 (2.817 %) Perl 7 1 (1.408 %) Java 7 1 (1.408 %) XAML
Qualifications 1 4 (5.634 %) MCSE 1 4 (5.634 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.408 %) Degree 2 1 (1.408 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.225 %) SLA
System Software 1 36 (50.70 %) Active Directory 2 4 (5.634 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (2.817 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (1.408 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (1.408 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.408 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 25 (35.21 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 8 (11.27 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.408 %) NNM 3 1 (1.408 %) OVOW
Vendors 1 29 (40.85 %) Citrix 2 17 (23.94 %) Lotus 3 16 (22.54 %) IBM 4 13 (18.31 %) Microsoft 5 11 (15.49 %) HP 5 11 (15.49 %) Cisco 6 8 (11.27 %) VMware 7 4 (5.634 %) Oracle 7 4 (5.634 %) Dell 8 3 (4.225 %) Hyperion 8 3 (4.225 %) 3Com 9 2 (2.817 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (2.817 %) Intel 10 1 (1.408 %) VERITAS