The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 44 47 50
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 26 37 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.114% 3.318% 3.359%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.54% 14.23% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 9
Average daily rate £140 £280 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £127 £235 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £349 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £205 £219
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 4
Average hourly rate £18.50 £14.54 £11.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.25% +25.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £18.67 £14.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +7.69%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
192 260 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.99% 23.32% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 94 113
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 11
Average hourly rate £21.50 £15.13 £12.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.14% +23.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £17.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows XP
Berkshire

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Windows XP Daily Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Windows XP Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 73 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (78.08%) Active Directory
3 50 (68.49%) Windows 7
4 42 (57.53%) Microsoft
5 36 (49.32%) MS Office
6 27 (36.99%) LAN
7 25 (34.25%) MS Exchange
8 20 (27.40%) VMware
9 19 (26.03%) WAN
9 19 (26.03%) Windows Server 2003
10 18 (24.66%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (23.29%) Blackberry
12 16 (21.92%) Citrix
12 16 (21.92%) TCP/IP
12 16 (21.92%) VMware Infrastructure
13 14 (19.18%) VPN
13 14 (19.18%) MS Excel
13 14 (19.18%) HP
13 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
14 13 (17.81%) SQL
15 12 (16.44%) Exchange Server 2007
16 11 (15.07%) Lotus Notes
16 11 (15.07%) Lotus
16 11 (15.07%) Software Deployment
17 10 (13.70%) Exchange Server 2003
17 10 (13.70%) Microsoft App-V
17 10 (13.70%) Aerospace
18 9 (12.33%) Finance
18 9 (12.33%) Internet
18 9 (12.33%) ITIL

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (5.479%) .NET
2 2 (2.740%) Web Services
2 2 (2.740%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.370%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 25 (34.25%) MS Exchange
2 12 (16.44%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (15.07%) Lotus Notes
4 10 (13.70%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (8.219%) SharePoint
5 6 (8.219%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (5.479%) IIS
7 3 (4.110%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (4.110%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (2.740%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (2.740%) Apache
8 2 (2.740%) Tomcat
8 2 (2.740%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 36 (49.32%) MS Office
2 14 (19.18%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.370%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.740%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.99%) LAN
2 19 (26.03%) WAN
3 16 (21.92%) TCP/IP
4 14 (19.18%) VPN
5 9 (12.33%) Internet
6 8 (10.96%) Ethernet
7 3 (4.110%) IP Telephony
7 3 (4.110%) SAN
8 2 (2.740%) DHCP
8 2 (2.740%) HTTP
8 2 (2.740%) DNS
8 2 (2.740%) SSL
8 2 (2.740%) Firewall
8 2 (2.740%) Wireless
8 2 (2.740%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.479%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.110%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.740%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (2.740%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (2.740%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.370%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.110%) MSI
2 2 (2.740%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.740%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (1.370%) Selenium
General
1 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
2 10 (13.70%) Aerospace
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.589%) Retail
5 2 (2.740%) Banking
5 2 (2.740%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Analyst
2 14 (19.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Service Desk Analyst
3 13 (17.81%) Support Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Service Analyst
4 12 (16.44%) Desktop Support
5 10 (13.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (9.589%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (8.219%) Support Technician
8 5 (6.849%) Desktop Team Leader
8 5 (6.849%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (6.849%) Team Leader
9 4 (5.479%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (5.479%) Applications Packager
9 4 (5.479%) DBA
9 4 (5.479%) 1st Line Support
10 3 (4.110%) IT Support
10 3 (4.110%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (4.110%) Support Analyst
11 2 (2.740%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.479%) Clustering
3 3 (4.110%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (4.110%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.740%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.370%) PDA
5 1 (1.370%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (68.49%) Windows 7
3 19 (26.03%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (24.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (8.219%) Mac OS X
5 6 (8.219%) Windows 2000
6 4 (5.479%) Windows Vista
7 2 (2.740%) UNIX
7 2 (2.740%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.370%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.07%) Software Deployment
2 9 (12.33%) ITIL
3 6 (8.219%) Software Distribution
4 4 (5.479%) Network Architecture
5 3 (4.110%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (4.110%) Validation
5 3 (4.110%) Change Management
5 3 (4.110%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (4.110%) Asset Management
6 2 (2.740%) Incident Management
6 2 (2.740%) ITSM
6 2 (2.740%) Service Management
7 1 (1.370%) Automation Testing
7 1 (1.370%) Test Automation
7 1 (1.370%) Manual Testing
7 1 (1.370%) System Testing
7 1 (1.370%) Performance Management
7 1 (1.370%) Migration
7 1 (1.370%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.370%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) SQL
2 4 (5.479%) VBScript
2 4 (5.479%) VB
2 4 (5.479%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.110%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.370%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (8.219%) MCP
2 6 (8.219%) MCDST
3 3 (4.110%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.740%) OCP
4 2 (2.740%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.740%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.370%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.110%) QA
2 2 (2.740%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.370%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (78.08%) Active Directory
2 16 (21.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (5.479%) XenApp
4 4 (5.479%) vSphere
5 3 (4.110%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.370%) XenServer
6 1 (1.370%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.370%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.370%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) SCCM
2 7 (9.589%) Unicenter
3 2 (2.740%) MOM
3 2 (2.740%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (2.740%) SCOM
3 2 (2.740%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 42 (57.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (27.40%) VMware
3 16 (21.92%) Citrix
4 14 (19.18%) HP
5 11 (15.07%) Lotus
6 8 (10.96%) FrontRange
7 7 (9.589%) Royalblue
7 7 (9.589%) Remedy
7 7 (9.589%) CA
8 6 (8.219%) Cisco
9 5 (6.849%) Dell
10 4 (5.479%) McAfee
10 4 (5.479%) Oracle
11 3 (4.110%) Symantec
11 3 (4.110%) Altiris
11 3 (4.110%) Clearswift
11 3 (4.110%) Apple
12 2 (2.740%) Intel
12 2 (2.740%) Compaq
12 2 (2.740%) IBM