Leicester Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Leicester 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	3
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	26	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	89.66 %	86.11 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£350
Average daily rate	£260	£350
% change on same period last year	-25.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£26.77
Average hourly rate	£25.33	£27.32
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£27.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.88	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems Leicester
Matching contract IT job ads	29	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.036 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£350
Average daily rate	£228	£350
% change on same period last year	-34.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£242	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£21.86
Average hourly rate	£25.33	£22.60
% change on same period last year	+12.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£23.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows Leicestershire

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 Leicester 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 Leicester 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 Leicester region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Leicester region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 20 (38.46 %) Windows Server 2003 2 18 (34.62 %) Windows XP 3 16 (30.77 %) Active Directory 4 14 (26.92 %) Microsoft 5 11 (21.15 %) Windows 2000 6 10 (19.23 %) Oracle 6 10 (19.23 %) UNIX 6 10 (19.23 %) MS Office 7 9 (17.31 %) Finance 8 6 (11.54 %) SQL 8 6 (11.54 %) AIX 8 6 (11.54 %) Oracle 10g 8 6 (11.54 %) Windows NT 8 6 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 8 6 (11.54 %) WebSphere

9 5 (9.615 %) Lotus 9 5 (9.615 %) IBM 9 5 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (9.615 %) .NET 9 5 (9.615 %) MS Excel 9 5 (9.615 %) OO 9 5 (9.615 %) Lotus Notes 9 5 (9.615 %) C# 9 5 (9.615 %) C++ 9 5 (9.615 %) VMware 9 5 (9.615 %) MS PowerPoint 9 5 (9.615 %) Back Office 10 4 (7.692 %) Firewall 10 4 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 10 4 (7.692 %) BMC PATROL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 6 (11.54 %) WebSphere 2 5 (9.615 %) .NET 3 4 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (5.769 %) HTML 4 3 (5.769 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.923 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (1.923 %) WPF 5 1 (1.923 %) Silverlight 5 1 (1.923 %) SOAP 5 1 (1.923 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.923 %) XML 5 1 (1.923 %) XSD 5 1 (1.923 %) XSLT 5 1 (1.923 %) ODBC 5 1 (1.923 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.615 %) Lotus Notes 1 5 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 3 3 (5.769 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.923 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 10 (19.23 %) MS Office 2 5 (9.615 %) MS Excel 2 5 (9.615 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (1.923 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.692 %) LAN 1 4 (7.692 %) WAN 1 4 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (7.692 %) DNS 1 4 (7.692 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.846 %) SAN 3 1 (1.923 %) Internet 3 1 (1.923 %) VPN 3 1 (1.923 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (11.54 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (5.769 %) SQL Server 3 3 (5.769 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (5.769 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 4 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.923 %) Ant	General 1 9 (17.31 %) Finance 2 5 (9.615 %) Back Office 3 2 (3.846 %) Retail 4 1 (1.923 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 11 (21.15 %) Analyst 2 8 (15.38 %) 1st Line Support 3 7 (13.46 %) Helpdesk Support 4 5 (9.615 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (7.692 %) Server Support 5 4 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 6 3 (5.769 %) Administrator 6 3 (5.769 %) Developer 6 3 (5.769 %) DBA 6 3 (5.769 %) IT Support Analyst 6 3 (5.769 %) Release Analyst 6 3 (5.769 %) C# Developer 7 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 2 (3.846 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (3.846 %) Oracle DBA 7 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (3.846 %) UNIX Engineer 7 2 (3.846 %) Project Manager 7 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) NHS 2 1 (1.923 %) Mathematics 2 1 (1.923 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 20 (38.46 %) Windows Server 2003 2 18 (34.62 %) Windows XP 3 11 (21.15 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (19.23 %) UNIX 5 6 (11.54 %) AIX 5 6 (11.54 %) Windows NT 6 4 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (3.846 %) Solaris 8 1 (1.923 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (9.615 %) OO 2 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 2 4 (7.692 %) UML 3 3 (5.769 %) Manual Testing 3 3 (5.769 %) OOD 4 2 (3.846 %) Validation 4 2 (3.846 %) Migration 4 2 (3.846 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.923 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.923 %) Continuous Integration 5 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.923 %) Data Protection 5 1 (1.923 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (1.923 %) TDD 5 1 (1.923 %) BCP 5 1 (1.923 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.923 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.923 %) Data Security
Programming Languages 1 6 (11.54 %) SQL 2 5 (9.615 %) C# 2 5 (9.615 %) C++ 3 4 (7.692 %) VB 4 3 (5.769 %) JavaScript 4 3 (5.769 %) C 5 2 (3.846 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (1.923 %) Perl 6 1 (1.923 %) XAML 6 1 (1.923 %) Jython 6 1 (1.923 %) C++/CLI	Qualifications 1 6 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (7.692 %) MCSE 3 3 (5.769 %) Degree 4 1 (1.923 %) MCP 4 1 (1.923 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.923 %) CCNP 4 1 (1.923 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.846 %) ISO9001 1 2 (3.846 %) QA	System Software 1 16 (30.77 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.846 %) VMware Server 3 1 (1.923 %) NFS 3 1 (1.923 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.923 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (7.692 %) BMC PATROL 1 4 (7.692 %) ARCserve 1 4 (7.692 %) AllFusion Endevor 2 2 (3.846 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (1.923 %) WSUS 3 1 (1.923 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.923 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 14 (26.92 %) Microsoft 2 10 (19.23 %) Oracle 3 5 (9.615 %) IBM 3 5 (9.615 %) Lotus 3 5 (9.615 %) VMware 4 4 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (7.692 %) BMC 5 2 (3.846 %) Symantec 5 2 (3.846 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.923 %) Brocade 6 1 (1.923 %) CA 6 1 (1.923 %) NetApp 6 1 (1.923 %) Novell 6 1 (1.923 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.923 %) HP