Oxfordshire Windows NT Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Oxfordshire region.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Buckinghamshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Liverpool London Malmesbury Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Salisbury Scotland Solihull South East South West Suffolk Swindon Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	37	33	50
Rank change year-on-year	-4 +17
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2	3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire	0.315 %	0.685 %	0.515 %
As % of the Operating Systems category	1.389 %	1.852 %	1.887 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£148	£218	£324
% change year-on-year	-31.77 % -32.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0	1
Average hourly rate	£21.88	-	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.50	£14.75	£14.25
% change year-on-year	+11.86 % +3.500 %
All Operating Systems Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	72	108	159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire	22.71 %	36.99 %	27.32 %
Daily rates quoted	19	18	12
Average daily rate	£290	£363	£288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-20.00 % +26.08 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£256	£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£312	£400	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£310	£335
% change year-on-year	+0.800 % -7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	38	69
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£24.25	£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-38.14 % +15.47 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£10.00	£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.91	£32.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
Windows NT South East

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.

Windows NT
Demand Trend

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

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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	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
Oxford	-	1	-	-

Windows NT South East

Windows NT
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 1 (100.00 %) C 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus 1 1 (100.00 %) QuickPlace

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (100.00 %) QuickPlace	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (100.00 %) Senior Systems Engineer
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus