The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 18 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 North East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 24 33 33
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 8 18 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 2.649% 3.309% 2.857%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.90% 16.51% 9.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £250 £263 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £229 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £200 £213
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £10.20 £12.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.63 £14.13 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-3.53% +8.65%
All Operating Systems
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
62 109 142
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 20.53% 20.04% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 52 50
Average daily rate £275 £275 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 15
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.66 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% +1.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £6.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.43 £88.90 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows XP
England

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

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 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Durham -1 4 - -
Tyne and Wear +6 3 £250 -4.76% 4
Windows XP
England

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Windows 7
3 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
4 6 (40.00%) Citrix
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) SCCM
6 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (20.00%) HP
7 3 (20.00%) SMS
7 3 (20.00%) XenApp
8 2 (13.33%) Brocade
8 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
8 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 2 (13.33%) SAN
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (6.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (6.667%) Middleware
9 1 (6.667%) MSI
9 1 (6.667%) Firewall
9 1 (6.667%) VMware
9 1 (6.667%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
9 1 (6.667%) Juniper
9 1 (6.667%) Oracle
9 1 (6.667%) ITIL
9 1 (6.667%) WAN
9 1 (6.667%) DHCP
9 1 (6.667%) VPN
9 1 (6.667%) DNS
9 1 (6.667%) Microsoft

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 (6.667%) Middleware
1 1 (6.667%) Application Packaging
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Fusion
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SMS
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.667%) LAN
3 1 (6.667%) Firewall
3 1 (6.667%) WAN
3 1 (6.667%) DHCP
3 1 (6.667%) VPN
3 1 (6.667%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MSI
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) SAN Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Applications Packager
4 1 (6.667%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) 1st Line Support
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Windows 7
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) Network Design
3 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) XenApp
3 1 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Citrix
2 3 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Brocade
4 1 (6.667%) TippingPoint
4 1 (6.667%) ProCurve
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.667%) Juniper
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) VMware
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