Lothian Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Lothian 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£310
% change on same period last year	+2.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.34	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Operating Systems Lothian
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Windows Scotland

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 Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lothian 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 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) SMS 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) MSI 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lothian 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) SMS	Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MSI
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Applications Packager	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing	System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory