North Yorkshire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the North Yorkshire 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	7
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	69	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	75.00 %	92.41 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£239
Average daily rate	£287	£250
% change on same period last year	+14.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£261
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.59	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£16.85	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-31.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.12	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	92	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.080 %
Daily rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£239
Average daily rate	£360	£250
% change on same period last year	+43.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£261
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.72	£24.62
Average hourly rate	£17.13	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-30.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.54	£24.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Yorkshire

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
York	+6	23	£85	-65.99 %
Middlesbrough	-1	11	-	-
Harrogate	-14	5	£388	-
Northallerton	-	3	-	-
Redcar	0	2	-	-
Skipton	-	1	-	-
Scarborough	-	1	-	-

Windows Yorkshire

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 90 (66.18 %) Active Directory 2 58 (42.65 %) MS Office 3 40 (29.41 %) Windows XP 4 32 (23.53 %) Windows 2000 5 28 (20.59 %) Windows Server 2003 6 27 (19.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 25 (18.38 %) Microsoft 8 24 (17.65 %) MS Excel 9 21 (15.44 %) MS Exchange 9 21 (15.44 %) TCP/IP 10 19 (13.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 18 (13.24 %) WAN 12 17 (12.50 %) Citrix 13 15 (11.03 %) LAN 14 14 (10.29 %) ITIL

15 13 (9.559 %) IIS 16 12 (8.824 %) Legal 16 12 (8.824 %) Intranet 17 11 (8.088 %) Windows NT 17 11 (8.088 %) Oracle 18 10 (7.353 %) VERITAS 18 10 (7.353 %) HP 18 10 (7.353 %) Finance 18 10 (7.353 %) NetBackup 19 9 (6.618 %) .NET 20 8 (5.882 %) SQL 20 8 (5.882 %) Microsoft Certification 21 6 (4.412 %) Degree 21 6 (4.412 %) IBM 21 6 (4.412 %) Firewall

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 9 (6.618 %) .NET 2 5 (3.676 %) WebServices 3 4 (2.941 %) XML 4 2 (1.471 %) WebSphere 5 1 (0.735 %) WCF 5 1 (0.735 %) WPF 5 1 (0.735 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (0.735 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.735 %) SOAP 5 1 (0.735 %) XSD 5 1 (0.735 %) XSLT 5 1 (0.735 %) ISAPI 5 1 (0.735 %) SAML 5 1 (0.735 %) AJAX 5 1 (0.735 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 27 (19.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 21 (15.44 %) MS Exchange 3 19 (13.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 13 (9.559 %) IIS 5 4 (2.941 %) SharePoint 6 3 (2.206 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (2.206 %) Documentum 6 3 (2.206 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (2.206 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (1.471 %) WebSphere MQ 7 2 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (0.735 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.735 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 58 (42.65 %) MS Office 2 24 (17.65 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.206 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 21 (15.44 %) TCP/IP 2 18 (13.24 %) WAN 3 15 (11.03 %) LAN 4 12 (8.824 %) Intranet 5 6 (4.412 %) Firewall 6 4 (2.941 %) Internet 6 4 (2.941 %) SAN 6 4 (2.941 %) FTP 7 3 (2.206 %) DNS 7 3 (2.206 %) DHCP 8 2 (1.471 %) ATM 8 2 (1.471 %) GPRS 8 2 (1.471 %) SSL 8 2 (1.471 %) RIP 8 2 (1.471 %) OSPF 8 2 (1.471 %) Frame Relay 8 2 (1.471 %) iSCSI 9 1 (0.735 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (4.412 %) RDBMS 2 5 (3.676 %) SQL Server 3 3 (2.206 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.471 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (1.471 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (1.471 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.735 %) TOAD	Development Applications 1 3 (2.206 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.735 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.735 %) NUnit
General 1 12 (8.824 %) Legal 2 10 (7.353 %) Finance 3 2 (1.471 %) Construction 3 2 (1.471 %) Advertising 4 1 (0.735 %) Banking 4 1 (0.735 %) Electric 4 1 (0.735 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 24 (17.65 %) Support Engineer 2 22 (16.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 18 (13.24 %) Analyst 4 13 (9.559 %) Desktop Support 5 9 (6.618 %) Support Analyst 5 9 (6.618 %) Administrator 5 9 (6.618 %) Server Engineer 6 8 (5.882 %) Desktop Engineer 7 7 (5.147 %) Helpdesk Operator 7 7 (5.147 %) Developer 8 6 (4.412 %) Systems Administrator 8 6 (4.412 %) Technical Support 8 6 (4.412 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 6 (4.412 %) Server Administrator 8 6 (4.412 %) Rollout Engineer 8 6 (4.412 %) Helpdesk Support 9 5 (3.676 %) Technical Manager 9 5 (3.676 %) IT Support Engineer 9 5 (3.676 %) Server Support 9 5 (3.676 %) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.676 %) Clustering 2 4 (2.941 %) PDA 2 4 (2.941 %) German Language 3 3 (2.206 %) Computer Science 4 2 (1.471 %) Smartphone 4 2 (1.471 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.471 %) Replication 4 2 (1.471 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.471 %) Blackberry 5 1 (0.735 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.735 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.735 %) NHS 5 1 (0.735 %) Dutch Language 5 1 (0.735 %) Taxonomies 5 1 (0.735 %) Norwegian Language 5 1 (0.735 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 40 (29.41 %) Windows XP 2 32 (23.53 %) Windows 2000 3 28 (20.59 %) Windows Server 2003 4 11 (8.088 %) Windows NT 5 5 (3.676 %) Linux 6 4 (2.941 %) UNIX 7 2 (1.471 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.735 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (10.29 %) ITIL 2 3 (2.206 %) OO 2 3 (2.206 %) Software Engineering 2 3 (2.206 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (1.471 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (1.471 %) Information Management 3 2 (1.471 %) Document Management 3 2 (1.471 %) Network Design 3 2 (1.471 %) SOA 3 2 (1.471 %) Service Management 3 2 (1.471 %) ITSM 4 1 (0.735 %) Migration 4 1 (0.735 %) Data Management 4 1 (0.735 %) Project Management 4 1 (0.735 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (0.735 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 8 (5.882 %) SQL 2 4 (2.941 %) C# 3 3 (2.206 %) C++ 4 2 (1.471 %) Perl 4 2 (1.471 %) Shell Script 5 1 (0.735 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (0.735 %) Java
Qualifications 1 8 (5.882 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (4.412 %) Degree 2 6 (4.412 %) MCP 3 4 (2.941 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.471 %) SLA 1 2 (1.471 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 90 (66.18 %) Active Directory 2 10 (7.353 %) NetBackup 3 3 (2.206 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (2.206 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.735 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.735 %) Oracle RMAN 4 1 (0.735 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (0.735 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 4 (2.941 %) WSUS 2 2 (1.471 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.735 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.735 %) MOM 3 1 (0.735 %) NNM 3 1 (0.735 %) OVOW 3 1 (0.735 %) OVIS
Vendors 1 25 (18.38 %) Microsoft 2 17 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 11 (8.088 %) Oracle 4 10 (7.353 %) VERITAS 4 10 (7.353 %) HP 5 6 (4.412 %) IBM 6 5 (3.676 %) VMware 6 5 (3.676 %) Cisco 7 3 (2.206 %) Lotus 7 3 (2.206 %) Dell 8 2 (1.471 %) Wyse 9 1 (0.735 %) Sun