Leicestershire Windows XP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Leicestershire region.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Ascot Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Penryn Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rochdale Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Whitehaven Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	14	9	10
Rank change year-on-year	-5 +1
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9	26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire	5.303 %	8.257 %	8.638 %
As % of the Operating Systems category	29.17 %	37.50 %	30.95 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£250	£190
% change year-on-year	+10.00 % +31.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2	21
Average hourly rate	£7.50	£15.00	£11.84
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-50.00 % +26.74 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.50	£14.00	£13.50
% change year-on-year	-10.71 % +3.700 %
All Operating Systems Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	24	24	84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire	18.18 %	22.02 %	27.91 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3	20
Average daily rate	£220	£325	£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-32.30 % +18.18 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£306	£334
% change year-on-year	+1.550 % -8.530 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	5	30
Average hourly rate	£7.50	£16.75	£12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-55.22 % +39.58 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
Windows XP East Midlands

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

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 Leicestershire region.

Windows XP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Kegworth	-4	4	-	-
Leicester	+1	2	-	-
Loughborough	-	1	-	-

Windows XP East Midlands

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 36 (100.00 %) Windows 2 26 (72.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 24 (66.67 %) Microsoft 4 23 (63.89 %) Finance 5 22 (61.11 %) MS Office 5 22 (61.11 %) Internet 6 19 (52.78 %) Financial Institution 7 8 (22.22 %) VPN 8 7 (19.44 %) Active Directory 9 5 (13.89 %) Remedy 9 5 (13.89 %) Blackberry 10 4 (11.11 %) DNS 10 4 (11.11 %) LAN 10 4 (11.11 %) WAN 10 4 (11.11 %) TCP/IP

10 4 (11.11 %) Wireless 11 3 (8.333 %) Banking 11 3 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 12 2 (5.556 %) MS Excel 12 2 (5.556 %) ARCserve 12 2 (5.556 %) CA 12 2 (5.556 %) EPoS 12 2 (5.556 %) CheckPoint 12 2 (5.556 %) Firewall 12 2 (5.556 %) VMware 12 2 (5.556 %) Investment Banking 12 2 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 12 2 (5.556 %) Security Cleared 12 2 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure 13 1 (2.778 %) Incident Management

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (2.778 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (2.778 %) Lotus Domino	Applications 1 22 (61.11 %) MS Office 2 2 (5.556 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 22 (61.11 %) Internet 2 8 (22.22 %) VPN 3 4 (11.11 %) DNS 3 4 (11.11 %) LAN 3 4 (11.11 %) WAN 3 4 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (11.11 %) Wireless 4 2 (5.556 %) Firewall	General 1 23 (63.89 %) Finance 2 19 (52.78 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (8.333 %) Banking 4 2 (5.556 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 23 (63.89 %) Analyst 2 20 (55.56 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 17 (47.22 %) 1st Line Support 4 16 (44.44 %) Support Analyst 5 15 (41.67 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 6 5 (13.89 %) Support Engineer 6 5 (13.89 %) Desktop Support 7 3 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 3 (8.333 %) Desktop Engineer 8 2 (5.556 %) Field Service Engineer 8 2 (5.556 %) Field Engineer 9 1 (2.778 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 9 1 (2.778 %) IT Support 9 1 (2.778 %) Product Specialist 9 1 (2.778 %) Senior Analyst 9 1 (2.778 %) Products Support Specialist 9 1 (2.778 %) Technical Support 9 1 (2.778 %) Helpdesk Support 9 1 (2.778 %) Technical Analyst 9 1 (2.778 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (13.89 %) Blackberry 2 2 (5.556 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 36 (100.00 %) Windows 2 26 (72.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.778 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (2.778 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.778 %) Perl 1 1 (2.778 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (5.556 %) Security Cleared
System Software 1 7 (19.44 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.556 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (5.556 %) ARCserve 2 1 (2.778 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (2.778 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 24 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 5 (13.89 %) Remedy 3 2 (5.556 %) CA 3 2 (5.556 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (5.556 %) VMware 4 1 (2.778 %) Lotus 4 1 (2.778 %) Symantec 4 1 (2.778 %) IBM 4 1 (2.778 %) HP 4 1 (2.778 %) Dell 4 1 (2.778 %) BMC