Windows Contracts in the North East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 31 59 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 11.44% 12.09% 15.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.21% 59.60% 50.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 19
Average daily rate £263 £344 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.63% +14.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £250 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £405 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 12
Average hourly rate £11.00 £13.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +1.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £20.00 £24.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.21 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.84% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 63 99 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 23.25% 20.29% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 46
Average daily rate £263 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £448 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 12
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.66 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% -2.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £8.67
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.13 £20.00 £26.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
England

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North East Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East Windows Hourly Rate Trend

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 North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Durham +2 15 £315 -13.69%
Tyne and Wear -11 13 £183 -42.06%
Windows
England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 39 (49.37%) Windows 7
2 29 (36.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
4 15 (18.99%) Windows XP
5 14 (17.72%) ITIL
6 13 (16.46%) HP
7 12 (15.19%) MS Office
7 12 (15.19%) Migration
8 11 (13.92%) Citrix
9 10 (12.66%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
9 10 (12.66%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (11.39%) UNIX
11 8 (10.13%) Service Management
11 8 (10.13%) Cisco
11 8 (10.13%) SCCM
12 7 (8.861%) Problem Management
12 7 (8.861%) Linux
12 7 (8.861%) MS Excel
12 7 (8.861%) SLA
13 6 (7.595%) Project Management
13 6 (7.595%) Clustering
14 5 (6.329%) Manufacturing
14 5 (6.329%) Configuration Management
14 5 (6.329%) Service Delivery
14 5 (6.329%) OpenView
14 5 (6.329%) SAN
14 5 (6.329%) MS Exchange
14 5 (6.329%) PRINCE2

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 5 (6.329%) HTML5
2 4 (5.063%) jQuery
2 4 (5.063%) XML
3 3 (3.797%) CSS
3 3 (3.797%) SOAP
3 3 (3.797%) Spring
3 3 (3.797%) Ajax
3 3 (3.797%) CSS3
4 2 (2.532%) Application Packaging
4 2 (2.532%) Web Services
4 2 (2.532%) .NET
4 2 (2.532%) Middleware
5 1 (1.266%) WinForms
5 1 (1.266%) HTML
5 1 (1.266%) XSLT
5 1 (1.266%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.266%) GWT
5 1 (1.266%) WPF
5 1 (1.266%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.266%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.329%) MS Exchange
2 4 (5.063%) IIS
3 2 (2.532%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.532%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.532%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.266%) Apache
4 1 (1.266%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.266%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.266%) ESB
4 1 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.266%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (15.19%) MS Office
2 7 (8.861%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.532%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.266%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.329%) SAN
2 4 (5.063%) VPN
3 3 (3.797%) Wireless
3 3 (3.797%) DNS
3 3 (3.797%) FTP
3 3 (3.797%) SMS
4 2 (2.532%) Intranet
4 2 (2.532%) Extranet
4 2 (2.532%) LDAP
4 2 (2.532%) SMTP
4 2 (2.532%) DHCP
4 2 (2.532%) SNMP
5 1 (1.266%) IPsec
5 1 (1.266%) Firewall
5 1 (1.266%) WAN
5 1 (1.266%) LAN
5 1 (1.266%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.329%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.532%) MS Access
3 1 (1.266%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.266%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.266%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.266%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.532%) MSI
2 1 (1.266%) PhoneGap
General
1 5 (6.329%) Manufacturing
2 3 (3.797%) German Language
3 2 (2.532%) Banking
4 1 (1.266%) Finance
4 1 (1.266%) Norwegian Language
4 1 (1.266%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Analyst
2 11 (13.92%) Support Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Service Analyst
3 10 (12.66%) Service Desk Analyst
4 9 (11.39%) Administrator
5 8 (10.13%) Project Manager
5 8 (10.13%) Desktop Support
6 7 (8.861%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (7.595%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (7.595%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 6 (7.595%) Support Analyst
7 6 (7.595%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (7.595%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.063%) Software Analyst
8 4 (5.063%) Help Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.063%) Developer
8 4 (5.063%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.063%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (5.063%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (3.797%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.595%) Clustering
2 4 (5.063%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.797%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.797%) RIA
3 3 (3.797%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.532%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.266%) CESG
5 1 (1.266%) PACS
5 1 (1.266%) Handset
5 1 (1.266%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.266%) iPhone
5 1 (1.266%) iPad
5 1 (1.266%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 39 (49.37%) Windows 7
2 15 (18.99%) Windows XP
3 10 (12.66%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (12.66%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (11.39%) UNIX
5 7 (8.861%) Linux
6 3 (3.797%) AIX
6 3 (3.797%) Windows 8
7 2 (2.532%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.266%) Android
8 1 (1.266%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.72%) ITIL
2 12 (15.19%) Migration
3 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (10.13%) Service Management
5 7 (8.861%) Problem Management
6 6 (7.595%) Project Management
7 5 (6.329%) Configuration Management
7 5 (6.329%) Service Delivery
7 5 (6.329%) PRINCE2
7 5 (6.329%) Asset Management
7 5 (6.329%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (6.329%) Data Protection
7 5 (6.329%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (6.329%) Capacity Management
8 3 (3.797%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (3.797%) SOA
8 3 (3.797%) Web Application Development
9 2 (2.532%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.532%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (2.532%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.063%) SQL
2 3 (3.797%) Java
3 1 (1.266%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.266%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.266%) C#
3 1 (1.266%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.063%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.797%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.797%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.797%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (3.797%) MCP
4 2 (2.532%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.266%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.861%) SLA
2 1 (1.266%) QA
System Software
1 29 (36.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.063%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.797%) XenApp
3 3 (3.797%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.532%) SRDF
4 2 (2.532%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.266%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) SCCM
2 5 (6.329%) OpenView
2 5 (6.329%) OVSD
3 3 (3.797%) WSUS
3 3 (3.797%) SCOM
4 1 (1.266%) DameWare
4 1 (1.266%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.46%) HP
3 11 (13.92%) Citrix
4 8 (10.13%) Cisco
5 4 (5.063%) VMware
6 3 (3.797%) Dell
6 3 (3.797%) McAfee
7 2 (2.532%) RightFax
7 2 (2.532%) Oracle
7 2 (2.532%) Novell
7 2 (2.532%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.266%) Juniper
8 1 (1.266%) JBoss
8 1 (1.266%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.266%) SAP
8 1 (1.266%) Brocade
8 1 (1.266%) ProCurve
8 1 (1.266%) TippingPoint
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
We require a minimum standard of technical knowledge and common hardware troubleshooting including PC's, Laptops, Printers and Microsoft Applications... For this role you will need previous experience...
Connectus
Rate: £9 - £11 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Service Desk Advisor
Stockton-On-Tees, Cleveland
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Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 30 April 2013
IT Systems Support Officer
Durham, County Durham
Essential skills and qualities required are: - User desktop support covering Windows XP, Windows 7, Office 2007, Office 2010, Laptops, Mobiles - Knowledge and experience of working with Active Directory...
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Rate: From £10 to £12 per hour
Posted: 20 May 2013
Technical Systems Administrator
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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Lorien Resourcing
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IS Support Engineer
Hartlepool, Cleveland
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Salary: Negotiable
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Windows and SAN Administrator
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
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1st Line Support / Service Desk - German Speaking
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Rate: From £14.29 to £14.29 per hour
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Java Developer
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