Lancashire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Lancashire 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 20 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 Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent 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 Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Keighley Kent 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 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 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 Sutton Coldfield 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	23
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	12	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	20.34 %	29.13 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£213
Average daily rate	£150	£215
% change on same period last year	-30.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£150	£217
UK excluding London average daily rate	£227	£257
% change on same period last year	-11.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.67	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£17.96	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-25.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.26	£29.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.57	£17.15
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Operating Systems Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	59	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.103 %
Daily rates quoted	10	17
Average minimum daily rate	£204	£302
Average daily rate	£207	£309
% change on same period last year	-33.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£209	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.98	£21.90
Average hourly rate	£22.77	£25.61
% change on same period last year	-11.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£29.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Windows XP North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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 Lancashire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Preston	+9	7	£150	-
Lancaster	+8	3	-	-
Morecambe	-	2	-	-
Blackpool	+4	1	-	-

Windows XP North West

Windows XP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 4 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory 4 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (31.25 %) MS Office 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 6 2 (12.50 %) PVCS 6 2 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i

6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (6.250 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client 7 1 (6.250 %) TOAD 7 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 7 1 (6.250 %) SQLPlus 7 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 7 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 7 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client 7 1 (6.250 %) HND 7 1 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (6.250 %) TOAD 2 1 (6.250 %) SQLPlus	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) PVCS 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Forms
Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Desktop Support 2 4 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Hardware Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Report Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) PC Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Hardware Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (6.250 %) PC Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (6.250 %) IT Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client 1 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) HND
System Software 1 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.250 %) Citrix