The first table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT 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 Milton Keynes 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 NT
Rank 51 42 38
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows NT 3 19 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.571% 2.657% 2.848%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.830% 9.268% 9.942%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
Average daily rate - £259 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £185 £338
% change year-on-year
+60.94% -45.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £29.00 £14.25
% change year-on-year
-44.82% +103.50%
All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
106 205 171
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 20.19% 28.67% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 53
Average daily rate £313 £280 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.60% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 32
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £10.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £15.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows NT
Buckinghamshire

Windows NT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows NT Hourly Rate Trend

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (53.33%) SAN
5 8 (53.33%) Intel
5 8 (53.33%) Windows 2000
5 8 (53.33%) MCSE
5 8 (53.33%) NAS
5 8 (53.33%) Degree
6 7 (46.67%) Citrix
6 7 (46.67%) VMware
7 6 (40.00%) UNIX
7 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (33.33%) SCOM
8 5 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
8 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 5 (33.33%) Broadband
8 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 5 (33.33%) VMware ESX
8 5 (33.33%) Clustering
8 5 (33.33%) HP
8 5 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (26.67%) ISA Server
9 4 (26.67%) Terminal Services
9 4 (26.67%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (26.67%) IIS
9 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
9 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Development
1 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) HTML
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.667%) CSS
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
1 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (26.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) CICS
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
1 8 (53.33%) NAS
2 5 (33.33%) Broadband
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (6.667%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Spanish Language
3 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Wintel Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) MVS Operator
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Applications Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Wintel Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (13.33%) Firmware
4 1 (6.667%) AS400
4 1 (6.667%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (53.33%) Windows 2000
4 6 (40.00%) UNIX
5 5 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (6.667%) OS/390
7 1 (6.667%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Change Management
1 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (6.667%) Web Development
2 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
2 1 (6.667%) ITIL
2 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) VB6
2 1 (6.667%) VBScript
2 1 (6.667%) VB
2 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
2 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (53.33%) MCSE
2 8 (53.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.667%) MCITP
5 1 (6.667%) MCPD
5 1 (6.667%) MCP
5 1 (6.667%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 4 (26.67%) ISA Server
3 4 (26.67%) Terminal Services
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCOM
1 5 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (26.67%) BladeLogic
3 3 (20.00%) OpenView
4 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
4 1 (6.667%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (6.667%) MAINVIEW
4 1 (6.667%) Control-M
4 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Intel
3 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
4 5 (33.33%) HP
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (20.00%) IBM
5 3 (20.00%) Sun
5 3 (20.00%) StorageTek