Reading Windows Vista Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista skills within the Reading 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 Vista over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	67
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	23	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	8.915 %	0.929 %
Daily rates quoted	13	0
Average minimum daily rate	£361	-
Average daily rate	£372	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£383	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£362
% change on same period last year	-11.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.63	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£15.63	£16.00
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.63	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.40	£24.92
% change on same period last year	-30.17 %
Operating Systems Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	258	323
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.360 %	0.325 %
Daily rates quoted	64	136
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£347
Average daily rate	£365	£382
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.34	£22.66
Average hourly rate	£35.57	£23.62
% change on same period last year	+50.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.80	£24.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.90	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Windows Vista Berkshire

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 Vista
Demand Trend

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

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 49 (100.00 %) Windows 2 33 (67.35 %) Microsoft 3 20 (40.82 %) Windows 2000 3 20 (40.82 %) MS Office 4 18 (36.73 %) Windows Server 2003 5 17 (34.69 %) Windows XP 6 16 (32.65 %) Windows Server 2008 7 13 (26.53 %) Microsoft Certification 8 9 (18.37 %) Active Directory 9 8 (16.33 %) Internet 9 8 (16.33 %) CSS 9 8 (16.33 %) MCSE 9 8 (16.33 %) MS Excel 9 8 (16.33 %) ASP 9 8 (16.33 %) HTML

9 8 (16.33 %) JavaScript 9 8 (16.33 %) VBScript 9 8 (16.33 %) Migration 9 8 (16.33 %) Web Development 10 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 6 (12.24 %) SoftGrid 11 6 (12.24 %) Terminal Services 11 6 (12.24 %) MS Exchange 12 5 (10.20 %) WSUS 12 5 (10.20 %) SCCM 12 5 (10.20 %) MS Visio 13 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 13 4 (8.163 %) SC Cleared 13 4 (8.163 %) DV Cleared 13 4 (8.163 %) Security Cleared

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (16.33 %) HTML 1 8 (16.33 %) ASP 1 8 (16.33 %) CSS 2 3 (6.122 %) Middleware 3 1 (2.041 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.24 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.122 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (6.122 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (6.122 %) Office Communications Server 3 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 20 (40.82 %) MS Office 2 8 (16.33 %) MS Excel 3 5 (10.20 %) MS Visio 4 2 (4.082 %) MS Project 5 1 (2.041 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 6 (12.24 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 8 (16.33 %) Internet 2 2 (4.082 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.041 %) MS Access
General 1 3 (6.122 %) Retail 2 1 (2.041 %) Construction 2 1 (2.041 %) Government	Job Titles 1 14 (28.57 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (16.33 %) Consultant 3 7 (14.29 %) Analyst 4 6 (12.24 %) Applications Support 4 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 6 (12.24 %) Web Support Engineer 4 6 (12.24 %) Web Engineer 5 5 (10.20 %) Applications Support Engineer 6 4 (8.163 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 4 (8.163 %) Vista Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) Implementation Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Server Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Server Support Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Technical Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) Junior Project Manager 7 2 (4.082 %) Implementation Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) Project Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Server Support 7 2 (4.082 %) Junior 7 2 (4.082 %) Project Manager
Operating Systems 1 49 (100.00 %) Windows 2 20 (40.82 %) Windows 2000 3 18 (36.73 %) Windows Server 2003 4 17 (34.69 %) Windows XP 5 16 (32.65 %) Windows Server 2008 6 7 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.33 %) Migration 1 8 (16.33 %) Web Development 2 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 2 4 (8.163 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (8.163 %) DV Cleared 2 4 (8.163 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (4.082 %) PRINCE 3 2 (4.082 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.041 %) ITSM 4 1 (2.041 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.041 %) CRM 4 1 (2.041 %) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (16.33 %) JavaScript 1 8 (16.33 %) VBScript 2 1 (2.041 %) VBA 2 1 (2.041 %) SQL 2 1 (2.041 %) C	Qualifications 1 13 (26.53 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (16.33 %) MCSE 3 3 (6.122 %) MCTS 4 2 (4.082 %) CNE 4 2 (4.082 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 9 (18.37 %) Active Directory 2 6 (12.24 %) Terminal Services 3 3 (6.122 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 5 (10.20 %) WSUS 1 5 (10.20 %) SCCM 2 3 (6.122 %) SCOM 2 3 (6.122 %) MOM 3 2 (4.082 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 33 (67.35 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.082 %) Citrix 2 2 (4.082 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.041 %) salesforce.com 3 1 (2.041 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.041 %) HP 3 1 (2.041 %) Compaq