Kent Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Kent 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton 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 Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden 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 Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	5
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	80	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.079 %
As % of the category below	81.63 %	43.09 %
Daily rates quoted	18	16
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£238
Average daily rate	£319	£249
% change on same period last year	+28.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.14	£15.88
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£16.72
% change on same period last year	+45.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.38	£17.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	98	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.131 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	22	27
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£309
Average daily rate	£321	£326
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.43	£19.10
Average hourly rate	£24.46	£20.49
% change on same period last year	+19.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.49	£21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Kent 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
Maidstone	-	20	£323	-
Chatham	-	4	£283	-
Canterbury	+3	4	£238	-
Dover	-	2	-	-
Rochester	-	2	£363	-
Dartford	-2	2	£313	-
Sittingbourne	-	1	£450	-
Sevenoaks	+5	1	-	-
Folkestone	+3	1	-	-

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 79 (45.14 %) Microsoft 2 55 (31.43 %) Active Directory 3 51 (29.14 %) MS Office 4 44 (25.14 %) UNIX 5 38 (21.71 %) MS Exchange 6 36 (20.57 %) Windows NT 7 33 (18.86 %) SQL 8 30 (17.14 %) .NET 8 30 (17.14 %) SQL Server 9 28 (16.00 %) Oracle 10 27 (15.43 %) Migration 11 26 (14.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 26 (14.86 %) MS Excel 11 26 (14.86 %) Windows XP 12 23 (13.14 %) DNS

13 22 (12.57 %) TCP/IP 13 22 (12.57 %) VB 14 20 (11.43 %) Windows 2000 15 19 (10.86 %) Windows Server 2003 16 18 (10.29 %) WebServices 16 18 (10.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 17 (9.714 %) GIS 17 17 (9.714 %) ESRI 17 17 (9.714 %) XML 17 17 (9.714 %) Internet 18 16 (9.143 %) Data Migration 19 15 (8.571 %) HTML 19 15 (8.571 %) ArcIMS 19 15 (8.571 %) Degree 20 14 (8.000 %) Citrix

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 30 (17.14 %) .NET 2 18 (10.29 %) WebServices 3 17 (9.714 %) XML 4 15 (8.571 %) HTML 5 13 (7.429 %) AJAX 6 12 (6.857 %) ArcObjects 6 12 (6.857 %) ASP 7 9 (5.143 %) Application Packaging 8 3 (1.714 %) WebSphere 8 3 (1.714 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (1.143 %) XHTML 9 2 (1.143 %) CSS 10 1 (0.571 %) SOAP 10 1 (0.571 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 38 (21.71 %) MS Exchange 2 26 (14.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 18 (10.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 15 (8.571 %) ArcIMS 5 12 (6.857 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 12 (6.857 %) IIS 6 8 (4.571 %) BizTalk Server 7 7 (4.000 %) ArcSDE 8 5 (2.857 %) GroupWise 9 4 (2.286 %) SharePoint 10 3 (1.714 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 2 (1.143 %) Lotus Notes 12 1 (0.571 %) Lotus Domino 12 1 (0.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 51 (29.14 %) MS Office 2 26 (14.86 %) MS Excel 3 8 (4.571 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.571 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.571 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (2.286 %) Summit 2 3 (1.714 %) GoldMine 3 1 (0.571 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 23 (13.14 %) DNS 2 22 (12.57 %) TCP/IP 3 17 (9.714 %) Internet 4 13 (7.429 %) LAN 5 11 (6.286 %) DHCP 5 11 (6.286 %) SAN 6 7 (4.000 %) Intranet 6 7 (4.000 %) WAN 7 6 (3.429 %) VPN 7 6 (3.429 %) TELNET 7 6 (3.429 %) Wireless 8 4 (2.286 %) Firewall 8 4 (2.286 %) ISDN 9 3 (1.714 %) WLAN 9 3 (1.714 %) FTP 9 3 (1.714 %) SS7 9 3 (1.714 %) TACACS 9 3 (1.714 %) SNMP 10 2 (1.143 %) NGN 10 2 (1.143 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (17.14 %) SQL Server 2 17 (9.714 %) GIS 3 10 (5.714 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (3.429 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (3.429 %) Oracle 9i 4 6 (3.429 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (1.143 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.571 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.571 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.571 %) DB2 6 1 (0.571 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (0.571 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 6 (3.429 %) ProC 2 5 (2.857 %) QuickTest Pro 3 4 (2.286 %) WinRunner 4 3 (1.714 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.571 %) Visual Studio	General 1 12 (6.857 %) Health 2 11 (6.286 %) Manufacturing 3 9 (5.143 %) Finance 4 7 (4.000 %) Publishing 5 6 (3.429 %) Insurance 6 5 (2.857 %) Government 7 4 (2.286 %) Pharmaceutical 7 4 (2.286 %) Telecoms 8 3 (1.714 %) Banking 8 3 (1.714 %) Local Government 8 3 (1.714 %) Electronics 8 3 (1.714 %) Legal 9 2 (1.143 %) Investment Banking 9 2 (1.143 %) Home Office 10 1 (0.571 %) Police
Job Titles 1 25 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 22 (12.57 %) Analyst 3 20 (11.43 %) Developer 4 19 (10.86 %) Desktop Support 5 12 (6.857 %) Server Support 6 11 (6.286 %) Server Engineer 7 10 (5.714 %) GIS Developer 7 10 (5.714 %) 2nd Line Support 7 10 (5.714 %) Support Analyst 8 9 (5.143 %) DBA 9 7 (4.000 %) Systems Engineer 9 7 (4.000 %) Desktop Engineer 9 7 (4.000 %) Deployment Engineer 10 6 (3.429 %) Helpdesk Support 10 6 (3.429 %) Oracle DBA 10 6 (3.429 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 6 (3.429 %) Administrator 10 6 (3.429 %) Applications Developer 10 6 (3.429 %) Server Support Engineer 11 5 (2.857 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (2.857 %) Clustering 2 2 (1.143 %) NHS 2 2 (1.143 %) Firmware 2 2 (1.143 %) AS400 3 1 (0.571 %) Thin Client 3 1 (0.571 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.571 %) W3C 3 1 (0.571 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.571 %) PMI 3 1 (0.571 %) PDA 3 1 (0.571 %) Informatics 3 1 (0.571 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 44 (25.14 %) UNIX 2 36 (20.57 %) Windows NT 3 26 (14.86 %) Windows XP 4 20 (11.43 %) Windows 2000 5 19 (10.86 %) Windows Server 2003 6 13 (7.429 %) Linux 7 6 (3.429 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.571 %) AIX 8 1 (0.571 %) HPUX 8 1 (0.571 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (15.43 %) Migration 2 16 (9.143 %) Data Migration 3 8 (4.571 %) Business Desktop Deployment 3 8 (4.571 %) Project Management 3 8 (4.571 %) Service Delivery 4 6 (3.429 %) ITIL 4 6 (3.429 %) Release Management 5 5 (2.857 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (2.286 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (1.714 %) Validation 7 3 (1.714 %) Web Testing 7 3 (1.714 %) Automated Testing 7 3 (1.714 %) Software Engineering 7 3 (1.714 %) Software Testing 7 3 (1.714 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (1.714 %) Manual Testing 7 3 (1.714 %) System Testing 7 3 (1.714 %) Load Balancing 8 2 (1.143 %) Fund Management 8 2 (1.143 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 33 (18.86 %) SQL 2 22 (12.57 %) VB 3 12 (6.857 %) PL/SQL 3 12 (6.857 %) C# 4 9 (5.143 %) Perl 5 8 (4.571 %) C 5 8 (4.571 %) VBScript 6 7 (4.000 %) VB.NET 7 6 (3.429 %) Korn 8 3 (1.714 %) VBA 8 3 (1.714 %) Assembly Language 8 3 (1.714 %) Shell Script 9 2 (1.143 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.571 %) PHP 10 1 (0.571 %) C++ 10 1 (0.571 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.571 %) Java 10 1 (0.571 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 15 (8.571 %) Degree 2 11 (6.286 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (4.571 %) MCSE 4 4 (2.286 %) CCNA 4 4 (2.286 %) MCP 4 4 (2.286 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (1.143 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (1.143 %) MCSA 6 1 (0.571 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.571 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (3.429 %) QA 2 3 (1.714 %) SLA	System Software 1 55 (31.43 %) Active Directory 2 10 (5.714 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (2.286 %) Oracle RMAN 3 4 (2.286 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (2.286 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.143 %) NDS 4 2 (1.143 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.571 %) Novell eDirectory 5 1 (0.571 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.571 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.571 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.571 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.571 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 11 (6.286 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (2.286 %) BMC Marimba 3 3 (1.714 %) NNM 3 3 (1.714 %) OpenView 3 3 (1.714 %) CiscoWorks 3 3 (1.714 %) Tivoli 3 3 (1.714 %) Tivoli NetView 4 2 (1.143 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 1 (0.571 %) MOM 5 1 (0.571 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.571 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 79 (45.14 %) Microsoft 2 28 (16.00 %) Oracle 3 17 (9.714 %) ESRI 4 14 (8.000 %) Citrix 5 13 (7.429 %) VMware 6 10 (5.714 %) HP 7 9 (5.143 %) Cisco 8 7 (4.000 %) IBM 9 5 (2.857 %) Intel 10 4 (2.286 %) Symantec 10 4 (2.286 %) McAfee Security 11 3 (1.714 %) Nortel 11 3 (1.714 %) Avaya 12 2 (1.143 %) Novell 12 2 (1.143 %) Lotus 12 2 (1.143 %) Sun 13 1 (0.571 %) Dell 13 1 (0.571 %) Business Objects 13 1 (0.571 %) Altiris 13 1 (0.571 %) Fujitsu