Leeds Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	7
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	166	112
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.213 %	0.126 %
As % of the category below	74.77 %	56.57 %
Daily rates quoted	25	17
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£229
Average daily rate	£280	£243
% change on same period last year	+15.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£314
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.10	£15.97
Average hourly rate	£17.79	£17.14
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.49	£18.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.80	£20.20
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Operating Systems Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	222	198
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.285 %	0.222 %
Daily rates quoted	40	41
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£251
Average daily rate	£299	£261
% change on same period last year	+14.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.41	£15.89
Average hourly rate	£17.18	£16.63
% change on same period last year	+3.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.96	£17.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£23.07
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Leeds 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Leeds region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Leeds region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 89 (32.25 %) Microsoft 2 82 (29.71 %) Active Directory 3 73 (26.45 %) Windows XP 4 57 (20.65 %) MS Office 5 50 (18.12 %) .NET 6 47 (17.03 %) Windows Server 2003 7 46 (16.67 %) SQL Server 8 40 (14.49 %) Unix 8 40 (14.49 %) TCP/IP 9 38 (13.77 %) Microsoft Certification 9 38 (13.77 %) Windows 2000 10 37 (13.41 %) Citrix 11 36 (13.04 %) MS Exchange 11 36 (13.04 %) Firewall 12 35 (12.68 %) C#

12 35 (12.68 %) WAN 13 34 (12.32 %) ITIL 14 31 (11.23 %) VPN 14 31 (11.23 %) DNS 15 29 (10.51 %) NHS 15 29 (10.51 %) MS Excel 16 28 (10.14 %) PRINCE2 16 28 (10.14 %) SQL Server 2005 17 27 (9.783 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 26 (9.420 %) MCSE 18 26 (9.420 %) WebServices 19 25 (9.058 %) SQL 19 25 (9.058 %) Linux 19 25 (9.058 %) Health 20 24 (8.696 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 50 (18.12 %) .NET 2 26 (9.420 %) WebServices 3 22 (7.971 %) XML 4 20 (7.246 %) ASP.NET 5 11 (3.986 %) HTML 6 10 (3.623 %) CSS 6 10 (3.623 %) XSLT 6 10 (3.623 %) WinForms 7 7 (2.536 %) WCF 7 7 (2.536 %) .NET Framework 8 5 (1.812 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 8 5 (1.812 %) Middleware 8 5 (1.812 %) X-Windows 8 5 (1.812 %) ADO.NET 9 3 (1.087 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 3 (1.087 %) WPF 9 3 (1.087 %) WebSphere 10 2 (0.725 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 2 (0.725 %) WF 10 2 (0.725 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 36 (13.04 %) MS Exchange 2 27 (9.783 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 19 (6.884 %) SharePoint 4 16 (5.797 %) Lotus Notes 5 11 (3.986 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 8 (2.899 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 6 (2.174 %) IIS 7 6 (2.174 %) GroupWise 8 5 (1.812 %) BizTalk Server 9 4 (1.449 %) Lotus Domino 9 4 (1.449 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 2 (0.725 %) Tomcat 10 2 (0.725 %) WebLogic 10 2 (0.725 %) WebSphere MQ 11 1 (0.362 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 57 (20.65 %) MS Office 2 29 (10.51 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.087 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.725 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.362 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.362 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 4 (1.449 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.362 %) assyst 2 1 (0.362 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.362 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 40 (14.49 %) TCP/IP 2 36 (13.04 %) Firewall 3 35 (12.68 %) WAN 4 31 (11.23 %) VPN 4 31 (11.23 %) DNS 5 20 (7.246 %) LAN 6 17 (6.159 %) Internet 7 15 (5.435 %) SAN 8 11 (3.986 %) Broadband 9 9 (3.261 %) SSL 10 6 (2.174 %) VoIP 10 6 (2.174 %) DHCP 11 5 (1.812 %) WINS 11 5 (1.812 %) Network Security 11 5 (1.812 %) MPLS 12 3 (1.087 %) Intranet 12 3 (1.087 %) SMS 12 3 (1.087 %) LDAP 13 2 (0.725 %) ATM 13 2 (0.725 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 28 (10.14 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (5.797 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (2.536 %) SQL Server 7 5 6 (2.174 %) EDRMS 6 5 (1.812 %) Oracle 9i 6 5 (1.812 %) TOAD 7 4 (1.449 %) Oracle Reports 8 3 (1.087 %) MS Access 9 2 (0.725 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 2 (0.725 %) EDMS 9 2 (0.725 %) GIS 9 2 (0.725 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 2 (0.725 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.362 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 10 (3.623 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (1.812 %) Oracle Forms 3 3 (1.087 %) ProC 4 2 (0.725 %) MSI 5 1 (0.362 %) AdminStudio 5 1 (0.362 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.362 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (0.362 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.362 %) Eclipse	General 1 25 (9.058 %) Health 2 24 (8.696 %) Finance 3 11 (3.986 %) Government 4 9 (3.261 %) Telecoms 5 2 (0.725 %) Education 5 2 (0.725 %) Law 5 2 (0.725 %) Legal 5 2 (0.725 %) Publishing 5 2 (0.725 %) Banking 5 2 (0.725 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.362 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (0.362 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 68 (24.64 %) Analyst 2 51 (18.48 %) Developer 3 31 (11.23 %) Support Analyst 4 24 (8.696 %) Desktop Support 5 20 (7.246 %) 2nd Line Support 6 18 (6.522 %) Support Engineer 7 17 (6.159 %) Service Analyst 7 17 (6.159 %) C# Developer 7 17 (6.159 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 15 (5.435 %) Project Manager 9 14 (5.072 %) .NET Developer 9 14 (5.072 %) Desktop Engineer 10 12 (4.348 %) Technical Manager 10 12 (4.348 %) 3rd Line Support 10 12 (4.348 %) Technical Support 10 12 (4.348 %) Consultant 11 11 (3.986 %) Systems Engineer 12 10 (3.623 %) Senior Developer 12 10 (3.623 %) Administrator 12 10 (3.623 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 29 (10.51 %) NHS 2 18 (6.522 %) Smartcard 2 18 (6.522 %) PKI 3 6 (2.174 %) PDA 4 5 (1.812 %) Clustering 4 5 (1.812 %) Video Conferencing 5 3 (1.087 %) Data Protection Act 5 3 (1.087 %) Freedom of Information Act 5 3 (1.087 %) Freedom of Information 6 2 (0.725 %) AS400 6 2 (0.725 %) Computer Science 6 2 (0.725 %) Asset Management 6 2 (0.725 %) Client/Server 6 2 (0.725 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.362 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.362 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.362 %) Smartphone
Operating Systems 1 73 (26.45 %) Windows XP 2 47 (17.03 %) Windows Server 2003 3 40 (14.49 %) Unix 4 38 (13.77 %) Windows 2000 5 25 (9.058 %) Linux 6 21 (7.609 %) Windows NT 7 13 (4.710 %) Solaris 8 8 (2.899 %) NetWare 8 8 (2.899 %) Windows Mobile 9 7 (2.536 %) Windows Vista 10 4 (1.449 %) Mac OS X 11 3 (1.087 %) Ubuntu 12 2 (0.725 %) AIX 13 1 (0.362 %) HPUX 13 1 (0.362 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (12.32 %) ITIL 2 28 (10.14 %) PRINCE2 3 18 (6.522 %) Project Management 4 10 (3.623 %) Configuration Management 5 8 (2.899 %) Migration 5 8 (2.899 %) Unit Testing 5 8 (2.899 %) Time Management 6 7 (2.536 %) Workflow 6 7 (2.536 %) Network Load Balancing 6 7 (2.536 %) Supplier Management 7 6 (2.174 %) Software Testing 8 5 (1.812 %) Agile Software Development 8 5 (1.812 %) Document Management 8 5 (1.812 %) Network Design 8 5 (1.812 %) OO 8 5 (1.812 %) Service Delivery 8 5 (1.812 %) PRINCE 9 4 (1.449 %) Regression Testing 9 4 (1.449 %) SOA 9 4 (1.449 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 35 (12.68 %) C# 2 25 (9.058 %) SQL 3 10 (3.623 %) JavaScript 4 7 (2.536 %) VB 5 6 (2.174 %) C++ 5 6 (2.174 %) Java 5 6 (2.174 %) VB6 6 5 (1.812 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (1.449 %) VB.NET 8 3 (1.087 %) Shell Script 9 1 (0.362 %) C 9 1 (0.362 %) VC++ 9 1 (0.362 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 38 (13.77 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (9.420 %) MCSE 3 14 (5.072 %) MCP 4 11 (3.986 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (2.899 %) Degree 6 7 (2.536 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 6 (2.174 %) CCNP 8 5 (1.812 %) CCNA 8 5 (1.812 %) MCDST 9 4 (1.449 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 4 (1.449 %) Citrix Certification 10 3 (1.087 %) Network+ Certification 11 2 (0.725 %) MCDBA 12 1 (0.362 %) CNA 12 1 (0.362 %) CNE 12 1 (0.362 %) Novell Certification 12 1 (0.362 %) A+ Certification 12 1 (0.362 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (2.174 %) QA 2 2 (0.725 %) PCI DSS 3 1 (0.362 %) ISO17799 3 1 (0.362 %) ISO9001 3 1 (0.362 %) SLA	System Software 1 82 (29.71 %) Active Directory 2 11 (3.986 %) MetaFrame 3 7 (2.536 %) NetBackup 4 6 (2.174 %) VMware ESX 5 4 (1.449 %) NDS 6 3 (1.087 %) Novell eDirectory 7 2 (0.725 %) Terminal Services 8 1 (0.362 %) Samba 8 1 (0.362 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 12 (4.348 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 6 (2.174 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 4 (1.449 %) ZENworks 4 2 (0.725 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.725 %) ARCserve 4 2 (0.725 %) TIBCO Hawk 5 1 (0.362 %) OVIS	Vendors 1 89 (32.25 %) Microsoft 2 37 (13.41 %) Citrix 3 22 (7.971 %) Oracle 4 21 (7.609 %) Novell 5 16 (5.797 %) Lotus 6 15 (5.435 %) Cisco 7 10 (3.623 %) HP 7 10 (3.623 %) VMware 8 9 (3.261 %) VERITAS 9 7 (2.536 %) Symantec 10 6 (2.174 %) CheckPoint 11 5 (1.812 %) Apple 12 4 (1.449 %) IBM 13 2 (0.725 %) Dell 13 2 (0.725 %) TIBCO 13 2 (0.725 %) Wyse 13 2 (0.725 %) Sun 13 2 (0.725 %) GGP 14 1 (0.362 %) Altiris 14 1 (0.362 %) Meridio