Windows Contracts in Northampton
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Northampton 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 7 11 5
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 16 23 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 11.68% 9.746% 13.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 94.12% 85.19% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 11
Average daily rate £310 £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% +11.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £141 £123 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £495 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Northampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 17 27 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 12.41% 11.44% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 15
Average daily rate £230 £413 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.24% +43.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £122 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £510 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
Northamptonshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton 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 Northampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
3 9 (28.13%) .NET
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (25.00%) IIS
5 6 (18.75%) Citrix
5 6 (18.75%) SLA
6 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
6 5 (15.63%) Windows XP
6 5 (15.63%) Windows 7
6 5 (15.63%) Degree
7 4 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
7 4 (12.50%) XenApp
7 4 (12.50%) Tomcat
7 4 (12.50%) MS Office
7 4 (12.50%) UNIX
7 4 (12.50%) Linux
7 4 (12.50%) Project Management
7 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (9.375%) Intranet
8 3 (9.375%) Lotus
8 3 (9.375%) Java
8 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
8 3 (9.375%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
8 3 (9.375%) Web Development

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 (28.13%) .NET
2 2 (6.250%) Struts
2 2 (6.250%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.125%) jQuery
3 1 (3.125%) JSF
3 1 (3.125%) ASP
3 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 8 (25.00%) IIS
3 4 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 3 (9.375%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (6.250%) Apache
5 2 (6.250%) Papyrus
6 1 (3.125%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
2 4 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (12.50%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.375%) Intranet
2 2 (6.250%) SAN
2 2 (6.250%) LAN
2 2 (6.250%) WAN
3 1 (3.125%) DHCP
3 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) MySQL
1 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) DTS
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Marketing
4 1 (3.125%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (9.375%) Support Technician
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) Desktop Support
3 3 (9.375%) Developer
4 2 (6.250%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Team Leader
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (6.250%) Designer
5 1 (3.125%) Defect Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) IT Support
5 1 (3.125%) Systems Test Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.250%) Open Source
1 2 (6.250%) SaaS
1 2 (6.250%) IaaS
2 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.125%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (15.63%) Windows 7
2 5 (15.63%) Windows XP
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (12.50%) UNIX
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Migration
2 4 (12.50%) Project Management
3 3 (9.375%) Asset Management
3 3 (9.375%) Web Development
4 2 (6.250%) ITIL
4 2 (6.250%) OO
5 1 (3.125%) Change Management
5 1 (3.125%) Automated Testing
5 1 (3.125%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.125%) Scrum
5 1 (3.125%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.125%) Fault Management
5 1 (3.125%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.125%) ISMS
5 1 (3.125%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (3.125%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 3 (9.375%) Java
2 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.250%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.250%) C++
3 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.125%) VB
4 1 (3.125%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.125%) MCP
3 1 (3.125%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) SLA
2 1 (3.125%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (12.50%) XenApp
2 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (3.125%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) WSUS
2 1 (3.125%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.125%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.125%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (9.375%) Lotus
4 2 (6.250%) HP
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco
5 1 (3.125%) Oracle
5 1 (3.125%) BancTec
5 1 (3.125%) VMware
5 1 (3.125%) Google
5 1 (3.125%) hybris
5 1 (3.125%) NetApp
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