The first table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT over the 3 months to 24 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 Manchester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows NT
Rank - 82 -
Contract jobs citing Windows NT 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.357% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £190 £338
% change year-on-year
+56.71% -43.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £27.00 £14.25
% change year-on-year
-40.74% +89.47%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
167 280 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 17.90% 21.67% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 102 58
Average daily rate £278 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 37 34
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £23.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows NT
North West

Windows NT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Windows NT Jobs Demand Trend

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Windows NT Daily Rate Trend

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Windows NT Hourly Rate Trend

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Samba
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Help Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCTS
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware