Hertfordshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP 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 XP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Aylesbury Ayrshire Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire 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 Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness 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 Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth 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 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	54
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	40	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	15.33 %	12.03 %
Daily rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£281
Average daily rate	£244	£287
% change on same period last year	-14.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£257	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£231	£258
% change on same period last year	-10.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.25	£15.18
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£15.66
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.75	£16.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.51	£17.13
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Operating Systems Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	261	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.348 %	0.373 %
Daily rates quoted	112	105
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£337
Average daily rate	£339	£349
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.31	£22.91
Average hourly rate	£23.68	£23.96
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.05	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.51	£22.79
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Windows XP 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 XP
Demand Trend

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

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Hertfordshire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Watford	+3	4	£300	-
Stevenage	+4	3	£90	-
Hitchin	+6	1	-	-
Letchworth	-	1	-	-

Windows XP East of England

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 72 (100.00 %) Windows 2 29 (40.28 %) Windows Server 2003 3 25 (34.72 %) Active Directory 4 22 (30.56 %) MS Office 5 18 (25.00 %) SMS 6 17 (23.61 %) MSI 7 16 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 8 13 (18.06 %) TCP/IP 9 12 (16.67 %) Microsoft 10 11 (15.28 %) Cisco 10 11 (15.28 %) VPN 10 11 (15.28 %) MCSE 11 10 (13.89 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 9 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 12 9 (12.50 %) DHCP

12 9 (12.50 %) HP 13 8 (11.11 %) Migration 14 7 (9.722 %) Firewall 14 7 (9.722 %) DNS 15 6 (8.333 %) MS Excel 15 6 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 15 6 (8.333 %) MCP 15 6 (8.333 %) SQL Server 15 6 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 15 6 (8.333 %) .NET 15 6 (8.333 %) Automotive 15 6 (8.333 %) Government 15 6 (8.333 %) Health 15 6 (8.333 %) InstallShield 15 6 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (8.333 %) .NET 1 6 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (6.944 %) HTML 3 4 (5.556 %) Application Packaging 3 4 (5.556 %) XML 4 2 (2.778 %) XSL 4 2 (2.778 %) WinForms 4 2 (2.778 %) CSS 4 2 (2.778 %) WebServices 4 2 (2.778 %) ADO.NET 4 2 (2.778 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (1.389 %) ASP 5 1 (1.389 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (2.778 %) IIS 4 1 (1.389 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 22 (30.56 %) MS Office 2 6 (8.333 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.389 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 18 (25.00 %) SMS 2 13 (18.06 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (15.28 %) VPN 4 9 (12.50 %) DHCP 5 7 (9.722 %) DNS 5 7 (9.722 %) Firewall 6 6 (8.333 %) Cisco PIX 7 5 (6.944 %) LAN 8 4 (5.556 %) Internet 9 3 (4.167 %) WAN 10 1 (1.389 %) Network Security 10 1 (1.389 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.944 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server 2008 4 1 (1.389 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.389 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 17 (23.61 %) MSI 2 6 (8.333 %) InstallShield
General 1 6 (8.333 %) Automotive 1 6 (8.333 %) Government 1 6 (8.333 %) Health 2 3 (4.167 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.778 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.389 %) Games 4 1 (1.389 %) Retail 4 1 (1.389 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.389 %) Online Games 4 1 (1.389 %) Finance 4 1 (1.389 %) Chemicals 4 1 (1.389 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 20 (27.78 %) Analyst 2 10 (13.89 %) Desktop Support 3 9 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (9.722 %) Service Analyst 5 6 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 5 6 (8.333 %) Desktop Engineer 6 5 (6.944 %) Systems Support 7 4 (5.556 %) Developer 7 4 (5.556 %) Server Support 8 3 (4.167 %) 1st Line Support 8 3 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support 8 3 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 3 (4.167 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 3 (4.167 %) Web Developer 8 3 (4.167 %) Desktop Analyst 8 3 (4.167 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 2 (2.778 %) PC Engineer 9 2 (2.778 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 9 2 (2.778 %) Server Engineer 9 2 (2.778 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.167 %) Thin Client 1 3 (4.167 %) Fat Client 2 2 (2.778 %) Blackberry 2 2 (2.778 %) AS400 2 2 (2.778 %) PDA 3 1 (1.389 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 72 (100.00 %) Windows 2 29 (40.28 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (13.89 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 9 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (8.333 %) Windows Vista 6 5 (6.944 %) Windows NT 7 3 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2008 8 2 (2.778 %) AIX 8 2 (2.778 %) Solaris 8 2 (2.778 %) UNIX 9 1 (1.389 %) Linux 9 1 (1.389 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (11.11 %) Migration 2 6 (8.333 %) Data Migration 3 5 (6.944 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (6.944 %) ITIL 4 4 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (5.556 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (4.167 %) UML 6 2 (2.778 %) OO 6 2 (2.778 %) Use Case 6 2 (2.778 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.389 %) ERD 7 1 (1.389 %) RAD 7 1 (1.389 %) CAD 7 1 (1.389 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.389 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (6.944 %) JavaScript 1 5 (6.944 %) VB 1 5 (6.944 %) VB.NET 2 4 (5.556 %) VBScript 2 4 (5.556 %) C 3 3 (4.167 %) SQL 4 2 (2.778 %) C# 4 2 (2.778 %) DHTML 5 1 (1.389 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 16 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (15.28 %) MCSE 3 6 (8.333 %) MCP 3 6 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (2.778 %) Degree 4 2 (2.778 %) MCAD 4 2 (2.778 %) MCSD 5 1 (1.389 %) CNE 5 1 (1.389 %) Novell Certification 5 1 (1.389 %) MCSA 5 1 (1.389 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.389 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.389 %) HP APS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.167 %) SLA
System Software 1 25 (34.72 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.167 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (2.778 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.389 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 2 (2.778 %) OpenView 1 2 (2.778 %) OVSD 2 1 (1.389 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.389 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (1.389 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.389 %) ARCserve 2 1 (1.389 %) ZENworks 2 1 (1.389 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 12 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 11 (15.28 %) Cisco 3 9 (12.50 %) HP 4 4 (5.556 %) VERITAS 4 4 (5.556 %) Sophos 5 3 (4.167 %) Intel 5 3 (4.167 %) Citrix 6 2 (2.778 %) Alcatel 6 2 (2.778 %) VMware 6 2 (2.778 %) Symantec 6 2 (2.778 %) IBM 7 1 (1.389 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.389 %) Altiris 7 1 (1.389 %) Epicor 7 1 (1.389 %) Novell 7 1 (1.389 %) Compaq 7 1 (1.389 %) Dell