Northampton Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Northampton 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	5
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	26	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	89.66 %	78.95 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£400
Average daily rate	£409	£450
% change on same period last year	-9.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£306
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.09	£18.63
Average hourly rate	£14.55	£18.68
% change on same period last year	-22.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£18.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.89	£20.47
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Operating Systems Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	29	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£387
Average daily rate	£350	£412
% change on same period last year	-14.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.56	£19.05
Average hourly rate	£15.04	£19.16
% change on same period last year	-21.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.53	£19.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Windows Northamptonshire

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 Northampton 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 Northampton region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 28 (44.44 %) Microsoft 1 28 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003 2 23 (36.51 %) Active Directory 3 21 (33.33 %) MS Office 4 19 (30.16 %) Windows XP 5 18 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 6 13 (20.63 %) MS Exchange 7 12 (19.05 %) MS Excel 7 12 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 8 10 (15.87 %) Cisco 9 9 (14.29 %) Citrix 9 9 (14.29 %) Finance 10 8 (12.70 %) NetWare 11 7 (11.11 %) MCSE 11 7 (11.11 %) MCP

11 7 (11.11 %) SQL 12 6 (9.524 %) IP Telephony 12 6 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 6 (9.524 %) UNIX 12 6 (9.524 %) Mainframe 13 5 (7.937 %) SQL Server 13 5 (7.937 %) Windows NT 13 5 (7.937 %) LAN 13 5 (7.937 %) WAN 14 4 (6.349 %) Firewall 14 4 (6.349 %) Migration 14 4 (6.349 %) Government 14 4 (6.349 %) Network Design 14 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 14 4 (6.349 %) ISA Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 1 (1.587 %) .NET 1 1 (1.587 %) WinForms 1 1 (1.587 %) WMI 1 1 (1.587 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 13 (20.63 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (4.762 %) GroupWise 4 2 (3.175 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.587 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.587 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 21 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 12 (19.05 %) MS Excel 3 2 (3.175 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 6 (9.524 %) IP Telephony 2 5 (7.937 %) LAN 2 5 (7.937 %) WAN 3 4 (6.349 %) Network Security 3 4 (6.349 %) SAN 3 4 (6.349 %) Firewall 4 3 (4.762 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (1.587 %) DNS 5 1 (1.587 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (7.937 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.762 %) Ingres 3 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (3.175 %) FrontPage 2 1 (1.587 %) MSI
General 1 9 (14.29 %) Finance 2 4 (6.349 %) Government 2 4 (6.349 %) Local Government 3 3 (4.762 %) Legal 4 2 (3.175 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (3.175 %) Retail 5 1 (1.587 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (1.587 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 24 (38.10 %) Analyst 2 12 (19.05 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 7 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 5 6 (9.524 %) 3rd Line Support 6 5 (7.937 %) 2nd Line Support 6 5 (7.937 %) Field Engineer 6 5 (7.937 %) Helpdesk Support 7 4 (6.349 %) Applications Support 7 4 (6.349 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 4 (6.349 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 4 (6.349 %) Desktop Support 7 4 (6.349 %) Architect 7 4 (6.349 %) Desktop Engineer 7 4 (6.349 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 4 (6.349 %) Security Architect 7 4 (6.349 %) Network Architect 8 3 (4.762 %) Trainer 8 3 (4.762 %) Test Manager 8 3 (4.762 %) Technical Support
Miscellaneous 1 6 (9.524 %) Mainframe 2 4 (6.349 %) Blackberry 3 3 (4.762 %) Tandem 4 2 (3.175 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (1.587 %) Fat Client 5 1 (1.587 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.587 %) Clustering 5 1 (1.587 %) EPoS 5 1 (1.587 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 28 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003 2 19 (30.16 %) Windows XP 3 18 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (12.70 %) NetWare 5 6 (9.524 %) UNIX 6 5 (7.937 %) Windows NT 7 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 8 2 (3.175 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (1.587 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (1.587 %) VME 9 1 (1.587 %) VMS 9 1 (1.587 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.349 %) Migration 1 4 (6.349 %) Network Design 2 3 (4.762 %) Project Management 2 3 (4.762 %) Change Management 3 2 (3.175 %) Service Management 3 2 (3.175 %) Quality Management 3 2 (3.175 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Incident Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Business Desktop Deployment 4 1 (1.587 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (1.587 %) Test Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (1.587 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 7 (11.11 %) SQL 2 3 (4.762 %) C 3 1 (1.587 %) C# 3 1 (1.587 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.587 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 12 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (11.11 %) MCP 2 7 (11.11 %) MCSE 3 4 (6.349 %) CNA 3 4 (6.349 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (1.587 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.587 %) MCAD 4 1 (1.587 %) MCSD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.175 %) SLA 2 1 (1.587 %) QA
System Software 1 23 (36.51 %) Active Directory 2 4 (6.349 %) ISA Server 3 3 (4.762 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.587 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.587 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 1 (1.587 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.587 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.587 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 28 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 10 (15.87 %) Cisco 3 9 (14.29 %) Citrix 4 4 (6.349 %) Nokia 4 4 (6.349 %) CheckPoint 5 3 (4.762 %) VMware 5 3 (4.762 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.175 %) IBM 6 2 (3.175 %) Novell 6 2 (3.175 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.587 %) VERITAS 7 1 (1.587 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.587 %) Altiris 7 1 (1.587 %) ICL 7 1 (1.587 %) Syncsort 7 1 (1.587 %) Progress 7 1 (1.587 %) BMC 7 1 (1.587 %) Dell 7 1 (1.587 %) EMC