Windows Contracts in Northamptonshire
 
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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 9 8 4
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 23 46 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 9.350% 11.44% 14.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.19% 85.19% 71.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 14
Average daily rate £312 £316 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.34% +12.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £143 £125 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £508 £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
Average hourly rate £11.50 £13.25 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.20% -22.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £12.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 £16.25 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 27 54 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 10.98% 13.43% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 26
Average daily rate £243 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.40% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £125 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £518 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
Average hourly rate £11.50 £14.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.00 £9.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.10 £18.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton +4 16 £310 -3.12%
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.91%) Finance
3 13 (27.66%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) Windows XP
4 12 (25.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (23.40%) Migration
5 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
6 10 (21.28%) SharePoint
6 10 (21.28%) .NET
7 9 (19.15%) Windows 7
8 8 (17.02%) IIS
8 8 (17.02%) MS Office
8 8 (17.02%) Citrix
8 8 (17.02%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (14.89%) UNIX
9 7 (14.89%) Linux
10 6 (12.77%) SLA
10 6 (12.77%) WebSphere
11 5 (10.64%) Degree
11 5 (10.64%) MS Excel
11 5 (10.64%) MS Exchange
11 5 (10.64%) LAN
11 5 (10.64%) Oracle
12 4 (8.511%) Tomcat
12 4 (8.511%) ITIL
12 4 (8.511%) Lotus Notes
12 4 (8.511%) Project Management
12 4 (8.511%) Cisco
12 4 (8.511%) Lotus
12 4 (8.511%) Microsoft Certification

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 10 (21.28%) .NET
2 6 (12.77%) WebSphere
3 3 (6.383%) Java EE
3 3 (6.383%) J2EE
4 2 (4.255%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.255%) Struts
5 1 (2.128%) Web Services
5 1 (2.128%) WinForms
5 1 (2.128%) JSF
5 1 (2.128%) CSS
5 1 (2.128%) ASP
5 1 (2.128%) jQuery
5 1 (2.128%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (21.28%) SharePoint
2 8 (17.02%) IIS
3 5 (10.64%) MS Exchange
4 4 (8.511%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (8.511%) Tomcat
5 3 (6.383%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (6.383%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (6.383%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (4.255%) Papyrus
6 2 (4.255%) Apache
7 1 (2.128%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (2.128%) ESB
7 1 (2.128%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (2.128%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (17.02%) MS Office
2 5 (10.64%) MS Excel
3 4 (8.511%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.128%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) LAN
2 4 (8.511%) DHCP
2 4 (8.511%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.511%) DNS
2 4 (8.511%) SAN
3 3 (6.383%) Intranet
3 3 (6.383%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.383%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.383%) DB2
2 2 (4.255%) MySQL
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.128%) DTS
3 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Subversion
2 1 (2.128%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 3 (6.383%) Banking
3 2 (4.255%) Marketing
4 1 (2.128%) Retail
4 1 (2.128%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (10.64%) Desktop Support
4 4 (8.511%) Developer
4 4 (8.511%) Support Technician
5 3 (6.383%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.383%) Administrator
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.255%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.255%) Incident Manager
6 2 (4.255%) IT Support
6 2 (4.255%) Designer
6 2 (4.255%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.255%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.255%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (4.255%) Defect Manager
7 1 (2.128%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.128%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.255%) Client/Server
1 2 (4.255%) Open Source
1 2 (4.255%) SaaS
1 2 (4.255%) IaaS
2 1 (2.128%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.128%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Windows XP
2 12 (25.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (19.15%) Windows 7
4 8 (17.02%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (14.89%) UNIX
5 7 (14.89%) Linux
6 3 (6.383%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.128%) Windows 2000
7 1 (2.128%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Migration
2 4 (8.511%) ITIL
2 4 (8.511%) Project Management
3 3 (6.383%) Asset Management
3 3 (6.383%) Web Development
3 3 (6.383%) ERP
3 3 (6.383%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (4.255%) Incident Management
4 2 (4.255%) OO
5 1 (2.128%) CAE
5 1 (2.128%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.128%) Scrum
5 1 (2.128%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.128%) Fault Management
5 1 (2.128%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.128%) ISMS
5 1 (2.128%) Automated Testing
5 1 (2.128%) Change Management
5 1 (2.128%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (2.128%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) SQL
2 3 (6.383%) Java
2 3 (6.383%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.255%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.255%) C#
3 2 (4.255%) C++
3 2 (4.255%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.128%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 4 (8.511%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.128%) MCP
3 1 (2.128%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 1 (2.128%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.511%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (8.511%) XenApp
3 1 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.128%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.128%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (6.383%) WSUS
2 2 (4.255%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.128%) SCCM
3 1 (2.128%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.128%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) Citrix
3 5 (10.64%) Oracle
4 4 (8.511%) Cisco
4 4 (8.511%) Lotus
4 4 (8.511%) VMware
5 3 (6.383%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.383%) IBM
5 3 (6.383%) HP
6 1 (2.128%) Remedy
6 1 (2.128%) BancTec
6 1 (2.128%) Google
6 1 (2.128%) LANDesk
6 1 (2.128%) hybris
6 1 (2.128%) NetApp
6 1 (2.128%) Novell
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