The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 19 30 29
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 3 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.875% 2.548% 1.408%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.71% 14.81% 3.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £250 £263 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £225
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.00 £13.25 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.43% -10.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +12.00%
All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
28 54 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.50% 17.20% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 31
Average daily rate £250 £275 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £240 £146
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £550 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 4
Average hourly rate £10.63 £13.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.29% -20.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.25 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £21.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows XP
Tyne and Wear

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows XP across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Brocade
3 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) LAN

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) SAN Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Brocade
3 1 (25.00%) ProCurve
3 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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