Manchester Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Manchester 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 XP over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Atherstone Banstead Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Beccles Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Esher Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	28
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	39	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	19.70 %	17.86 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£130	£175
Average daily rate	£130	£196
% change on same period last year	-33.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£130	£218
UK excluding London average daily rate	£234	£262
% change on same period last year	-10.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.32	£11.54
Average hourly rate	£13.88	£12.83
% change on same period last year	+8.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.44	£14.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.81	£16.88
% change on same period last year	-0.37 %
Operating Systems Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	198	252
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	32	41
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£275
Average daily rate	£338	£286
% change on same period last year	+18.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	70
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.52	£15.17
Average hourly rate	£19.73	£16.58
% change on same period last year	+19.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.94	£17.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Windows XP North West

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 XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Manchester region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	+6	3	-	-
Bolton	-3	2	-	-
Salford	-	2	-	-
Wigan	-	1	-	-
Bury	-	1	-	-

Windows XP North West

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 85 (100.00 %) Windows 2 47 (55.29 %) MS Office 3 37 (43.53 %) Active Directory 4 36 (42.35 %) Microsoft 5 27 (31.76 %) Windows 2000 6 25 (29.41 %) MS Exchange 7 21 (24.71 %) MS Excel 8 16 (18.82 %) Citrix 9 15 (17.65 %) Windows Server 2003 10 12 (14.12 %) Windows Vista 11 10 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 11 10 (11.76 %) LAN 12 8 (9.412 %) TCP/IP 12 8 (9.412 %) MCSE 12 8 (9.412 %) German Language

13 7 (8.235 %) Dutch Language 13 7 (8.235 %) Lotus Notes 13 7 (8.235 %) Ethernet 13 7 (8.235 %) Windows NT 13 7 (8.235 %) Lotus 13 7 (8.235 %) Swedish Language 14 6 (7.059 %) Blackberry 14 6 (7.059 %) SQL 14 6 (7.059 %) Finance 14 6 (7.059 %) French Language 14 6 (7.059 %) Danish Language 15 5 (5.882 %) Spanish Language 15 5 (5.882 %) Finnish Language 15 5 (5.882 %) Italian Language 15 5 (5.882 %) Norwegian Language

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 Development 1 1 (1.176 %) .NET 1 1 (1.176 %) ASP 1 1 (1.176 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (1.176 %) WebServices 1 1 (1.176 %) XML 1 1 (1.176 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 25 (29.41 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (8.235 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (3.529 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.176 %) WorkSite 4 1 (1.176 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.176 %) IIS 4 1 (1.176 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (1.176 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 47 (55.29 %) MS Office 2 21 (24.71 %) MS Excel 3 4 (4.706 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (2.353 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 10 (11.76 %) LAN 2 8 (9.412 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (8.235 %) Ethernet 4 5 (5.882 %) WAN 5 4 (4.706 %) VPN 6 2 (2.353 %) DNS 6 2 (2.353 %) Internet 7 1 (1.176 %) Extranet 7 1 (1.176 %) Firewall 7 1 (1.176 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.529 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.176 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.176 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (1.176 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 6 (7.059 %) Finance 2 5 (5.882 %) Legal 3 4 (4.706 %) Education 4 3 (3.529 %) Law 5 2 (2.353 %) Billing 6 1 (1.176 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 30 (35.29 %) Analyst 2 18 (21.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 16 (18.82 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 16 (18.82 %) Support Engineer 4 12 (14.12 %) Support Analyst 5 10 (11.76 %) 1st Line Support 6 7 (8.235 %) Helpdesk Support 7 6 (7.059 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (7.059 %) Desktop Engineer 8 5 (5.882 %) IT Support Engineer 8 5 (5.882 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 5 (5.882 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 5 (5.882 %) Support Technician 9 4 (4.706 %) Junior Analyst 9 4 (4.706 %) Junior 9 4 (4.706 %) Systems Engineer 9 4 (4.706 %) Systems Support 10 3 (3.529 %) 3rd Line Support 10 3 (3.529 %) Field Engineer 10 3 (3.529 %) Systems Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.412 %) German Language 2 7 (8.235 %) Swedish Language 2 7 (8.235 %) Dutch Language 3 6 (7.059 %) Blackberry 3 6 (7.059 %) Danish Language 3 6 (7.059 %) French Language 4 5 (5.882 %) Italian Language 4 5 (5.882 %) Norwegian Language 4 5 (5.882 %) Finnish Language 4 5 (5.882 %) Spanish Language 5 4 (4.706 %) NHS 6 3 (3.529 %) AS400 6 3 (3.529 %) Portuguese Language 7 2 (2.353 %) Smartcard 7 2 (2.353 %) PDA 8 1 (1.176 %) Clustering 8 1 (1.176 %) Thin Client 8 1 (1.176 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 85 (100.00 %) Windows 2 27 (31.76 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (17.65 %) Windows Server 2003 4 12 (14.12 %) Windows Vista 5 7 (8.235 %) Windows NT 6 3 (3.529 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (5.882 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.353 %) Migration 3 1 (1.176 %) Asset Management 3 1 (1.176 %) Problem Management 3 1 (1.176 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.176 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (1.176 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (7.059 %) SQL 2 1 (1.176 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (1.176 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 10 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (9.412 %) MCSE 3 3 (3.529 %) MCP 4 2 (2.353 %) MCSA 5 1 (1.176 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.529 %) SLA 2 2 (2.353 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 37 (43.53 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.706 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (2.353 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (1.176 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.176 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 3 (3.529 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.353 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.176 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 36 (42.35 %) Microsoft 2 16 (18.82 %) Citrix 3 7 (8.235 %) Lotus 4 5 (5.882 %) Remedy 5 4 (4.706 %) LANDesk 6 3 (3.529 %) HP 7 2 (2.353 %) SAP 8 1 (1.176 %) VMware 8 1 (1.176 %) Altiris 8 1 (1.176 %) Dell 8 1 (1.176 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (1.176 %) Avaya 8 1 (1.176 %) Novell 8 1 (1.176 %) VERITAS