Nottinghamshire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Nottinghamshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle 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 Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kegworth Keighley Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock 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 Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	3
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	62	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	60.78 %	62.07 %
Daily rates quoted	13	8
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£417
Average daily rate	£349	£423
% change on same period last year	-17.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.66	£14.83
Average hourly rate	£11.68	£15.74
% change on same period last year	-25.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.70	£16.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems Nottinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	102	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.135 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	26	21
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£317
Average daily rate	£351	£332
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.10	£14.83
Average hourly rate	£13.04	£15.66
% change on same period last year	-16.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.98	£16.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows East Midlands

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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Nottingham	-2	54	£349	-17.54 %
Mansfield	-	4	-	-

Windows East Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 49 (37.40 %) Active Directory 2 31 (23.66 %) Microsoft 3 26 (19.85 %) Windows 2000 3 26 (19.85 %) Windows XP 4 24 (18.32 %) Windows Server 2003 5 21 (16.03 %) MS Office 6 20 (15.27 %) SQL Server 7 19 (14.50 %) Citrix 8 17 (12.98 %) Novell 9 16 (12.21 %) .NET 9 16 (12.21 %) WAN 9 16 (12.21 %) Windows NT 9 16 (12.21 %) Finance 10 15 (11.45 %) Cisco 11 14 (10.69 %) PRINCE2

11 14 (10.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 13 (9.924 %) Health 12 13 (9.924 %) Microsoft Certification 13 12 (9.160 %) SAN 13 12 (9.160 %) MCSE 13 12 (9.160 %) LAN 14 10 (7.634 %) MS Exchange 14 10 (7.634 %) UML 14 10 (7.634 %) C# 14 10 (7.634 %) Java 14 10 (7.634 %) Visual Studio 14 10 (7.634 %) Subversion 15 9 (6.870 %) Migration 15 9 (6.870 %) ASP 15 9 (6.870 %) ASP.NET

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 16 (12.21 %) .NET 2 9 (6.870 %) ASP 2 9 (6.870 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (6.107 %) XML 4 7 (5.344 %) JDBC 5 6 (4.580 %) J2SE 6 5 (3.817 %) Java RMI 6 5 (3.817 %) Swing 6 5 (3.817 %) STL 6 5 (3.817 %) WCF 7 4 (3.053 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 4 (3.053 %) CAML 7 4 (3.053 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 4 (3.053 %) HTML 8 3 (2.290 %) J2EE 8 3 (2.290 %) SAP XI 9 2 (1.527 %) CSS 9 2 (1.527 %) Servlets 9 2 (1.527 %) Hibernate 9 2 (1.527 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 14 (10.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (7.634 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (3.817 %) SharePoint 4 4 (3.053 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (3.053 %) IIS 4 4 (3.053 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (2.290 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (2.290 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (1.527 %) Commerce Server 7 1 (0.763 %) Lotus Domino 7 1 (0.763 %) ColdFusion 7 1 (0.763 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 21 (16.03 %) MS Office 2 5 (3.817 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.290 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.527 %) Navision 2 1 (0.763 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (0.763 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 16 (12.21 %) WAN 2 12 (9.160 %) LAN 2 12 (9.160 %) SAN 3 8 (6.107 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (6.107 %) VPN 4 6 (4.580 %) Firewall 5 4 (3.053 %) VoIP 5 4 (3.053 %) SNMP 6 2 (1.527 %) DNS 6 2 (1.527 %) Internet 6 2 (1.527 %) DHCP 7 1 (0.763 %) Ethernet 7 1 (0.763 %) FTP 7 1 (0.763 %) HTTP 7 1 (0.763 %) SMS 7 1 (0.763 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (15.27 %) SQL Server 2 6 (4.580 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (3.817 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.527 %) GIS 4 2 (1.527 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.763 %) SAP BI 5 1 (0.763 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.763 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 10 (7.634 %) Visual Studio 1 10 (7.634 %) Subversion 2 5 (3.817 %) Ant 2 5 (3.817 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.527 %) WinRunner 3 2 (1.527 %) LoadRunner	General 1 16 (12.21 %) Finance 2 13 (9.924 %) Health 3 3 (2.290 %) Government 3 3 (2.290 %) 3D Graphics 3 3 (2.290 %) Retail 4 1 (0.763 %) Insurance 4 1 (0.763 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (0.763 %) Banking 4 1 (0.763 %) Legal 4 1 (0.763 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (0.763 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 27 (20.61 %) Developer 2 20 (15.27 %) Analyst 3 13 (9.924 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 10 (7.634 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 10 (7.634 %) Service Analyst 4 10 (7.634 %) 2nd Line Support 5 9 (6.870 %) Java Developer 6 8 (6.107 %) Administrator 7 7 (5.344 %) Support Analyst 7 7 (5.344 %) Desktop Support 8 6 (4.580 %) Project Manager 8 6 (4.580 %) Support Engineer 8 6 (4.580 %) 3rd Line Support 8 6 (4.580 %) C++ Developer 9 5 (3.817 %) .NET Developer 9 5 (3.817 %) Team Leader 9 5 (3.817 %) Technical Support 9 5 (3.817 %) Support Technician 10 4 (3.053 %) Systems Administrator 10 4 (3.053 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.344 %) Clustering 2 5 (3.817 %) Blackberry 2 5 (3.817 %) Multithreading 3 4 (3.053 %) PACS 4 3 (2.290 %) NHS 4 3 (2.290 %) Mathematics 5 2 (1.527 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.763 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.763 %) Firmware 6 1 (0.763 %) Thin Client 6 1 (0.763 %) PDA 6 1 (0.763 %) AS400 6 1 (0.763 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 26 (19.85 %) Windows 2000 1 26 (19.85 %) Windows XP 2 24 (18.32 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (12.21 %) Windows NT 4 6 (4.580 %) Unix 4 6 (4.580 %) Linux 5 1 (0.763 %) NetWare 5 1 (0.763 %) Windows CE 5 1 (0.763 %) AIX 5 1 (0.763 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (10.69 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (7.634 %) UML 3 9 (6.870 %) Migration 4 7 (5.344 %) Project Management 5 5 (3.817 %) OO 5 5 (3.817 %) OOD 5 5 (3.817 %) Configuration Management 5 5 (3.817 %) Agile Software Development 6 4 (3.053 %) ITIL 7 3 (2.290 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (1.527 %) CRM 8 2 (1.527 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.527 %) Change Management 8 2 (1.527 %) Regression Testing 8 2 (1.527 %) SAP Implementation 8 2 (1.527 %) Manual Testing 8 2 (1.527 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (0.763 %) System Testing 9 1 (0.763 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (0.763 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (7.634 %) C# 1 10 (7.634 %) Java 2 9 (6.870 %) C++ 3 5 (3.817 %) SQL 4 3 (2.290 %) Perl 5 2 (1.527 %) JavaScript 5 2 (1.527 %) VC++ 5 2 (1.527 %) VB 5 2 (1.527 %) VB.NET 5 2 (1.527 %) C 6 1 (0.763 %) ActionScript 6 1 (0.763 %) Shell Script 6 1 (0.763 %) VB6 6 1 (0.763 %) Korn 6 1 (0.763 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (0.763 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 13 (9.924 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (9.160 %) MCSE 3 4 (3.053 %) MCSA 3 4 (3.053 %) CCNA 3 4 (3.053 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.763 %) CCNP 4 1 (0.763 %) CNE 4 1 (0.763 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.817 %) SLA 2 3 (2.290 %) QA	System Software 1 49 (37.40 %) Active Directory 2 5 (3.817 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 4 (3.053 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (2.290 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.763 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (0.763 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.763 %) NFS 5 1 (0.763 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 4 (3.053 %) Nagios 2 1 (0.763 %) BMC Marimba 2 1 (0.763 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 31 (23.66 %) Microsoft 2 19 (14.50 %) Citrix 3 17 (12.98 %) Novell 4 15 (11.45 %) Cisco 5 9 (6.870 %) Oracle 6 5 (3.817 %) HP 7 4 (3.053 %) Lotus 7 4 (3.053 %) SonicWALL 8 3 (2.290 %) VMware 8 3 (2.290 %) SAP 9 2 (1.527 %) Dell 9 2 (1.527 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (1.527 %) Symantec 10 1 (0.763 %) Remedy 10 1 (0.763 %) McAfee Security 10 1 (0.763 %) Intel 10 1 (0.763 %) Sun 10 1 (0.763 %) Business Objects