Hertfordshire Windows Vista Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista skills within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenock Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverclyde Inverness Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook London Loughborough Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Skipton South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	83
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	2	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.005 %	3.519 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£314
% change on same period last year	-4.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£20.14
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£20.85
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£21.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.98	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-34.10 %
Operating Systems Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	199	341
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.320 %	0.366 %
Daily rates quoted	79	87
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£305
Average daily rate	£361	£322
% change on same period last year	+12.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	87
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.31	£20.41
Average hourly rate	£25.52	£21.16
% change on same period last year	+20.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.73	£21.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Windows Vista East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Stevenage	-4	1	-	-
Watford	-	1	-	-

Windows Vista East of England

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (62.50 %) Windows XP 3 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 5 2 (25.00 %) UML 5 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 5 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2008 5 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 6 1 (12.50 %) Finance 6 1 (12.50 %) Softricity 6 1 (12.50 %) WinForms 6 1 (12.50 %) VB6 6 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003

6 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 6 1 (12.50 %) Video Conferencing 6 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (12.50 %) ASP 6 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (12.50 %) CSS 6 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 6 1 (12.50 %) XML 6 1 (12.50 %) XSL 6 1 (12.50 %) C 6 1 (12.50 %) C#

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 Development 1 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) CSS 1 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) XSL 1 1 (12.50 %) WinForms 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) IIS 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Access 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Designer 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (62.50 %) Windows XP 3 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) UML 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) C# 1 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 1 1 (12.50 %) VBScript 1 1 (12.50 %) VB 1 1 (12.50 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (12.50 %) CCEA 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) MOM 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 1 (12.50 %) Softricity 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco