North East Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the North East 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bathgate Beccles Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexley Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenock Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverurie Ipswich Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Runcorn 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 Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	44
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	29	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	24.58 %	9.574 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£200
Average daily rate	£225	£211
% change on same period last year	+6.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£223
UK excluding London average daily rate	£220	£266
% change on same period last year	-17.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£12.75
Average hourly rate	£14.11	£13.79
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.89	£14.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.86	£16.34
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Operating Systems North East
Matching contract IT job ads	118	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.190 %	0.202 %
Daily rates quoted	10	48
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£333
Average daily rate	£307	£342
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.03	£19.68
Average hourly rate	£15.72	£20.58
% change on same period last year	-23.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.41	£21.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Windows XP England

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 North East 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 North East region.

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 North East region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Tyne and Wear	+19	18	£225	+6.50 %
Durham	-2	10	-	-

Windows XP England

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 41 (100.00 %) Windows 2 20 (48.78 %) MS Office 3 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 4 16 (39.02 %) Windows Server 2003 5 14 (34.15 %) Microsoft 6 13 (31.71 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (17.07 %) Windows Vista 8 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 8 6 (14.63 %) Lotus 8 6 (14.63 %) Blackberry 8 6 (14.63 %) Lotus Notes 8 6 (14.63 %) MS Excel 8 6 (14.63 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 9 5 (12.20 %) German Language

10 4 (9.756 %) Dutch Language 10 4 (9.756 %) French Language 10 4 (9.756 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 4 (9.756 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (9.756 %) HP 11 3 (7.317 %) AutoCAD 11 3 (7.317 %) Adobe 11 3 (7.317 %) Lotus Domino 11 3 (7.317 %) SQL 11 3 (7.317 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 3 (7.317 %) Firewall 12 2 (4.878 %) Government 12 2 (4.878 %) Replication 12 2 (4.878 %) VMware 12 2 (4.878 %) Wireless

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (2.439 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (14.63 %) Lotus Notes 1 6 (14.63 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (9.756 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (7.317 %) Lotus Domino 4 2 (4.878 %) Documentum 4 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (4.878 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (2.439 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 20 (48.78 %) MS Office 2 6 (14.63 %) MS Excel 3 3 (7.317 %) AutoCAD 3 3 (7.317 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (4.878 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.20 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (7.317 %) Firewall 3 2 (4.878 %) Wireless 3 2 (4.878 %) LAN 3 2 (4.878 %) VoIP 3 2 (4.878 %) WAN 4 1 (2.439 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.439 %) Ethernet 4 1 (2.439 %) HTTP 4 1 (2.439 %) VPN 4 1 (2.439 %) DNS 4 1 (2.439 %) HTTPS 4 1 (2.439 %) Internet 4 1 (2.439 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (4.878 %) Government 1 2 (4.878 %) Local Government 2 1 (2.439 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (2.439 %) Back Office 2 1 (2.439 %) Education	Job Titles 1 14 (34.15 %) Analyst 2 11 (26.83 %) Support Analyst 3 10 (24.39 %) Desktop Support 4 7 (17.07 %) 2nd Line Support 5 4 (9.756 %) Support Technician 5 4 (9.756 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 4 (9.756 %) Desktop Analyst 5 4 (9.756 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 4 (9.756 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (7.317 %) 1st Line Support 6 3 (7.317 %) Systems Support 6 3 (7.317 %) Systems Analyst 6 3 (7.317 %) Desktop Engineer 6 3 (7.317 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 3 (7.317 %) Helpdesk Support 7 2 (4.878 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.878 %) Desktop Support Technician 7 2 (4.878 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 7 2 (4.878 %) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (14.63 %) Blackberry 2 5 (12.20 %) German Language 3 4 (9.756 %) Dutch Language 3 4 (9.756 %) French Language 4 2 (4.878 %) Replication 4 2 (4.878 %) Norwegian Language 5 1 (2.439 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (2.439 %) Client/Server 5 1 (2.439 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 41 (100.00 %) Windows 2 16 (39.02 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (31.71 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (17.07 %) Windows Vista 5 4 (9.756 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (4.878 %) OO 2 1 (2.439 %) RAD 2 1 (2.439 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (2.439 %) Service Management 2 1 (2.439 %) Process Management 2 1 (2.439 %) ITSM 2 1 (2.439 %) Workflow 2 1 (2.439 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (2.439 %) Resource Management 2 1 (2.439 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.439 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 3 (7.317 %) SQL 2 2 (4.878 %) C 2 2 (4.878 %) C++ 2 2 (4.878 %) Java 3 1 (2.439 %) C# 3 1 (2.439 %) VB 3 1 (2.439 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (4.878 %) Degree 2 1 (2.439 %) MCP 2 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.439 %) A+ Certification	System Software 1 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.439 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (2.439 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (2.439 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 14 (34.15 %) Microsoft 2 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 2 6 (14.63 %) Lotus 3 4 (9.756 %) HP 4 3 (7.317 %) Adobe 5 2 (4.878 %) Dell 5 2 (4.878 %) VMware 5 2 (4.878 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.439 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (2.439 %) Intel 6 1 (2.439 %) Sun 6 1 (2.439 %) Apple 6 1 (2.439 %) CheckPoint