Windows XP Contracts in Liverpool
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Liverpool region.

Note that 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.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 19 22 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 4 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.667% 4.787% 3.750%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.407% 16.67% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
Average daily rate £82 £284 £132
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-71.10% +115.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £210 £225
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £9.00 £16.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.45% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +12.00%
All Operating Systems
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 54 54 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 36.00% 28.72% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 21
Average daily rate £310 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £437
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 5
Average hourly rate £11.00 £16.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £30.00 £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows XP
Merseyside

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Liverpool Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows XP across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) MS Office
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
4 3 (42.86%) LAN
4 3 (42.86%) Citrix
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 1 (14.29%) MCP
6 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (14.29%) SLA

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
1 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
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