Merseyside Windows Contracts

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

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	3
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	49	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.110 %
As % of the category below	72.06 %	80.15 %
Daily rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£166
Average daily rate	£344	£181
% change on same period last year	+90.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£196
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£306
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.63	£12.66
Average hourly rate	£19.06	£14.31
% change on same period last year	+33.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£15.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.89	£20.47
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Operating Systems Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	68	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	15	17
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£188
Average daily rate	£360	£209
% change on same period last year	+72.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.69	£14.42
Average hourly rate	£18.13	£16.05
% change on same period last year	+12.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.56	£17.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-10	29	£340	+112.99 %
St Helens	0	5	-	-
Wirral	-5	3	-	-
Birkenhead	0	3	-	-

Windows North West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 28 (26.67 %) Windows XP 2 26 (24.76 %) MS Office 2 26 (24.76 %) Windows Server 2003 3 24 (22.86 %) Active Directory 4 21 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 5 20 (19.05 %) SQL Server 6 19 (18.10 %) .NET 7 17 (16.19 %) DNS 7 17 (16.19 %) Microsoft 8 16 (15.24 %) SQL 9 14 (13.33 %) VB.NET 10 12 (11.43 %) C# 10 12 (11.43 %) Visual Studio 10 12 (11.43 %) ASP.NET 10 12 (11.43 %) WebServices

10 12 (11.43 %) SQL Server 2005 11 11 (10.48 %) IIS 12 10 (9.524 %) Oracle 12 10 (9.524 %) LAN 12 10 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 12 10 (9.524 %) Linux 12 10 (9.524 %) Firewall 12 10 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2000 13 9 (8.571 %) Novell 13 9 (8.571 %) Citrix 13 9 (8.571 %) MS Excel 13 9 (8.571 %) MS Exchange 13 9 (8.571 %) Solaris 13 9 (8.571 %) WinForms 13 9 (8.571 %) Law

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Application Development 1 19 (18.10 %) .NET 2 12 (11.43 %) ASP.NET 2 12 (11.43 %) WebServices 3 9 (8.571 %) WinForms 4 8 (7.619 %) XML 5 7 (6.667 %) Middleware 6 6 (5.714 %) HTML 6 6 (5.714 %) XSLT 7 5 (4.762 %) ASP 8 4 (3.810 %) SOAP 9 2 (1.905 %) AJAX 9 2 (1.905 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (0.952 %) WMI 10 1 (0.952 %) Spring 10 1 (0.952 %) Hibernate 10 1 (0.952 %) CSS 10 1 (0.952 %) ADSI	Application Platforms 1 11 (10.48 %) IIS 2 9 (8.571 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (6.667 %) Oracle Application Server 3 7 (6.667 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 5 (4.762 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (3.810 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.905 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.952 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.952 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (0.952 %) Tomcat 7 1 (0.952 %) CMS
Applications 1 26 (24.76 %) MS Office 2 9 (8.571 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.952 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.952 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 7 (6.667 %) Oracle 11i 1 7 (6.667 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.952 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 17 (16.19 %) DNS 2 10 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (9.524 %) Firewall 2 10 (9.524 %) LAN 3 8 (7.619 %) WAN 4 6 (5.714 %) DHCP 4 6 (5.714 %) Intranet 4 6 (5.714 %) Internet 5 5 (4.762 %) Extranet 6 4 (3.810 %) VPN 6 4 (3.810 %) SAN 6 4 (3.810 %) LDAP 7 2 (1.905 %) SNMP 7 2 (1.905 %) Network Security 8 1 (0.952 %) GPRS 8 1 (0.952 %) VoIP 8 1 (0.952 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.952 %) FTP 8 1 (0.952 %) DMZ 8 1 (0.952 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (19.05 %) SQL Server 2 12 (11.43 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (7.619 %) Oracle 9i 5 7 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (5.714 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.952 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.952 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 12 (11.43 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (6.667 %) Oracle Forms 3 6 (5.714 %) InstallShield 3 6 (5.714 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.952 %) JUnit	General 1 9 (8.571 %) Law 2 8 (7.619 %) Finance 3 7 (6.667 %) Insurance 4 5 (4.762 %) Education 5 4 (3.810 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.905 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (1.905 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (1.905 %) Banking 6 2 (1.905 %) Government 7 1 (0.952 %) Health
Job Titles 1 29 (27.62 %) Analyst 2 19 (18.10 %) Developer 3 12 (11.43 %) Support Analyst 3 12 (11.43 %) .NET Developer 4 10 (9.524 %) Support Engineer 5 9 (8.571 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 8 (7.619 %) Administrator 7 7 (6.667 %) Oracle DBA 7 7 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 7 7 (6.667 %) DBA 8 6 (5.714 %) 1st Line Support 9 5 (4.762 %) Network Engineer 10 4 (3.810 %) Desktop Support 10 4 (3.810 %) Consultant 10 4 (3.810 %) Service Analyst 10 4 (3.810 %) Network Analyst 10 4 (3.810 %) VB.NET Developer 10 4 (3.810 %) Service Desk Analyst 11 3 (2.857 %) Team Leader 11 3 (2.857 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.714 %) French Language 1 6 (5.714 %) Italian Language 1 6 (5.714 %) Norwegian Language 1 6 (5.714 %) Spanish Language 1 6 (5.714 %) Swedish Language 1 6 (5.714 %) Danish Language 2 4 (3.810 %) Pocket PC 3 2 (1.905 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.952 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.952 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.952 %) Replication 4 1 (0.952 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.952 %) PDA 4 1 (0.952 %) Informatics 4 1 (0.952 %) Chemistry 4 1 (0.952 %) Finnish Language
Operating Systems 1 28 (26.67 %) Windows XP 2 26 (24.76 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (9.524 %) Linux 5 9 (8.571 %) Solaris 6 8 (7.619 %) UNIX 6 8 (7.619 %) Windows NT 7 5 (4.762 %) Windows CE 8 4 (3.810 %) Windows Vista 8 4 (3.810 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (2.857 %) NetWare 9 3 (2.857 %) VMS 10 1 (0.952 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (6.667 %) Change Management 2 6 (5.714 %) ITIL 2 6 (5.714 %) Agile Software Development 3 5 (4.762 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (3.810 %) Document Management 5 2 (1.905 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (1.905 %) Load Balancing 5 2 (1.905 %) Network Load Balancing 5 2 (1.905 %) Service Management 6 1 (0.952 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (0.952 %) Incident Management 6 1 (0.952 %) Web Development 6 1 (0.952 %) Logistics 6 1 (0.952 %) Asset Management 6 1 (0.952 %) Data Management 6 1 (0.952 %) OO 6 1 (0.952 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (0.952 %) Risk Management 6 1 (0.952 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 16 (15.24 %) SQL 2 14 (13.33 %) VB.NET 3 12 (11.43 %) C# 4 6 (5.714 %) VB 5 4 (3.810 %) VB6 6 2 (1.905 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.952 %) VBScript 7 1 (0.952 %) PowerHouse 7 1 (0.952 %) C++ 7 1 (0.952 %) Java 7 1 (0.952 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (1.905 %) MCSE 1 2 (1.905 %) CCNA 1 2 (1.905 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (1.905 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.952 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 1 (0.952 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.905 %) SLA	System Software 1 24 (22.86 %) Active Directory 2 7 (6.667 %) Oracle RMAN 2 7 (6.667 %) Oracle RAC 3 6 (5.714 %) Novell eDirectory 4 3 (2.857 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (2.857 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.952 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.952 %) VMware Workstation 5 1 (0.952 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.952 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 2 (1.905 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.952 %) WSUS 2 1 (0.952 %) SCCM 2 1 (0.952 %) SCOM 2 1 (0.952 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.952 %) MOM	Vendors 1 17 (16.19 %) Microsoft 2 10 (9.524 %) Oracle 3 9 (8.571 %) Citrix 3 9 (8.571 %) Novell 4 8 (7.619 %) Cisco 4 8 (7.619 %) Sun 5 5 (4.762 %) Lotus 6 4 (3.810 %) VMware 7 3 (2.857 %) NetApp 8 2 (1.905 %) Remedy 9 1 (0.952 %) Altiris 9 1 (0.952 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.952 %) VERITAS 9 1 (0.952 %) HP 9 1 (0.952 %) Dell