Leeds Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Leeds 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon 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 Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	43
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	37	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	17.45 %	14.51 %
Daily rates quoted	12	1
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£150
Average daily rate	£225	£160
% change on same period last year	+40.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£235	£170
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£269
% change on same period last year	-16.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.45	£14.90
Average hourly rate	£16.76	£15.90
% change on same period last year	+5.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.07	£16.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.28	£16.75
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Operating Systems Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	212	193
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.283 %	0.195 %
Daily rates quoted	49	33
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£265
Average daily rate	£292	£273
% change on same period last year	+6.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.31	£15.63
Average hourly rate	£19.73	£16.80
% change on same period last year	+17.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.15	£17.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows XP West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 74 (100.00 %) Windows 2 42 (56.76 %) MS Office 3 37 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 36 (48.65 %) Active Directory 5 24 (32.43 %) Microsoft Certification 6 21 (28.38 %) TCP/IP 7 18 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 8 17 (22.97 %) VPN 9 16 (21.62 %) SQL 10 15 (20.27 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 13 (17.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 13 (17.57 %) ITIL 11 13 (17.57 %) MCSE 11 13 (17.57 %) MS Excel 12 12 (16.22 %) Norton AntiVirus

12 12 (16.22 %) Symantec 12 12 (16.22 %) Health 13 11 (14.86 %) VMware 13 11 (14.86 %) VMware Infrastructure 13 11 (14.86 %) MCP 14 10 (13.51 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 10 (13.51 %) VMware ESX 15 9 (12.16 %) SQL Server 2000 15 9 (12.16 %) SQL Server 15 9 (12.16 %) Windows 2000 15 9 (12.16 %) Broadband 16 8 (10.81 %) Citrix 16 8 (10.81 %) SQL Server 2005 17 7 (9.459 %) NHS 17 7 (9.459 %) WAN

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (1.351 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 18 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (20.27 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 13 (17.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (6.757 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (2.703 %) GroupWise 6 1 (1.351 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 42 (56.76 %) MS Office 2 13 (17.57 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.351 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 21 (28.38 %) TCP/IP 2 17 (22.97 %) VPN 3 9 (12.16 %) Broadband 4 7 (9.459 %) WAN 5 5 (6.757 %) LAN 5 5 (6.757 %) Internet 5 5 (6.757 %) Firewall 6 4 (5.405 %) MPLS 6 4 (5.405 %) VoIP 6 4 (5.405 %) SAN 7 1 (1.351 %) Intranet 7 1 (1.351 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (12.16 %) SQL Server 1 9 (12.16 %) SQL Server 2000 2 8 (10.81 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.351 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1 (1.351 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.351 %) Subversion	General 1 12 (16.22 %) Health 2 2 (2.703 %) Education 2 2 (2.703 %) Government 3 1 (1.351 %) Finance 3 1 (1.351 %) Construction 3 1 (1.351 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 30 (40.54 %) Analyst 2 22 (29.73 %) Desktop Support 3 19 (25.68 %) Support Analyst 4 14 (18.92 %) Support Engineer 5 13 (17.57 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 13 (17.57 %) Desktop Analyst 6 11 (14.86 %) 3rd Line Support 7 10 (13.51 %) Service Analyst 7 10 (13.51 %) 2nd Line Support 7 10 (13.51 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 9 (12.16 %) Desktop Engineer 9 7 (9.459 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 5 (6.757 %) Technical Consultant 10 5 (6.757 %) Consultant 11 4 (5.405 %) Technical Support 11 4 (5.405 %) Support Technician 12 3 (4.054 %) Technical Support Analyst 12 3 (4.054 %) Rollout Engineer 12 3 (4.054 %) Technical Analyst 13 2 (2.703 %) Project Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 7 (9.459 %) NHS 2 4 (5.405 %) Clustering 3 3 (4.054 %) PDA 4 2 (2.703 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (1.351 %) Computer Science 5 1 (1.351 %) Smartphone 5 1 (1.351 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 74 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (12.16 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (8.108 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (5.405 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (4.054 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.351 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (1.351 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.351 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (17.57 %) ITIL 2 4 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (5.405 %) Network Load Balancing 3 1 (1.351 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.351 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 16 (21.62 %) SQL 2 2 (2.703 %) C 3 1 (1.351 %) C++ 3 1 (1.351 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 24 (32.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (17.57 %) MCSE 3 11 (14.86 %) MCP 4 4 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 4 (5.405 %) Network+ Certification 4 4 (5.405 %) MCDST 5 2 (2.703 %) MCSA 6 1 (1.351 %) HNC 6 1 (1.351 %) A+ Certification
System Software 1 36 (48.65 %) Active Directory 2 11 (14.86 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 10 (13.51 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.351 %) NetBackup 4 1 (1.351 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 12 (16.22 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 10 (13.51 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 4 (5.405 %) ZENworks 4 1 (1.351 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 37 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 12 (16.22 %) Symantec 3 11 (14.86 %) VMware 4 8 (10.81 %) Citrix 5 6 (8.108 %) Novell 6 5 (6.757 %) Lotus 6 5 (6.757 %) HP 7 2 (2.703 %) Apple 7 2 (2.703 %) Altiris 8 1 (1.351 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.351 %) Mitel 8 1 (1.351 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.351 %) 3Com 8 1 (1.351 %) Dell 8 1 (1.351 %) Intel 8 1 (1.351 %) Interwoven 8 1 (1.351 %) SAP 8 1 (1.351 %) Cisco