Reading Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	2
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	140	143
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.180 %	0.161 %
As % of the category below	67.31 %	63.00 %
Daily rates quoted	28	23
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£291
Average daily rate	£339	£305
% change on same period last year	+10.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£314
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.01	£20.46
Average hourly rate	£20.22	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-8.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.44	£23.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.80	£20.20
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Operating Systems Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	208	227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.267 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	48	45
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£333
Average daily rate	£339	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.97	£22.46
Average hourly rate	£22.39	£23.81
% change on same period last year	-5.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.81	£25.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£23.07
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Reading 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 173 (51.34 %) Microsoft 2 91 (27.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 76 (22.55 %) MS Office 3 76 (22.55 %) Windows XP 4 70 (20.77 %) Active Directory 5 64 (18.99 %) Windows 2000 6 54 (16.02 %) SQL 7 48 (14.24 %) MS Exchange 7 48 (14.24 %) Microsoft Certification 8 40 (11.87 %) VB 8 40 (11.87 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 39 (11.57 %) MS Excel 9 39 (11.57 %) Clustering 10 38 (11.28 %) SQL Server 10 38 (11.28 %) DNS

11 37 (10.98 %) SharePoint 12 36 (10.68 %) HP 13 33 (9.792 %) Government 14 32 (9.496 %) C# 15 31 (9.199 %) TCP/IP 16 28 (8.309 %) IIS 16 28 (8.309 %) SharePoint Server 2007 17 27 (8.012 %) XML 17 27 (8.012 %) .NET 17 27 (8.012 %) Lotus 17 27 (8.012 %) VMware 18 26 (7.715 %) Lotus Notes 19 25 (7.418 %) MCSE 20 23 (6.825 %) Citrix 21 22 (6.528 %) Unix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 27 (8.012 %) .NET 1 27 (8.012 %) XML 2 17 (5.045 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (4.748 %) HTML 4 12 (3.561 %) WebServices 5 11 (3.264 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 8 (2.374 %) XSD 7 7 (2.077 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (2.077 %) Application Packaging 8 6 (1.780 %) XSLT 8 6 (1.780 %) XHTML 9 5 (1.484 %) WF 10 4 (1.187 %) CAML 10 4 (1.187 %) UIQ 10 4 (1.187 %) Series 60 10 4 (1.187 %) Software Packaging 10 4 (1.187 %) WAP 10 4 (1.187 %) XSL 11 3 (0.890 %) Hibernate 11 3 (0.890 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 48 (14.24 %) MS Exchange 2 40 (11.87 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 37 (10.98 %) SharePoint 4 28 (8.309 %) IIS 4 28 (8.309 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 26 (7.715 %) Lotus Notes 6 22 (6.528 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 18 (5.341 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 5 (1.484 %) Office Project Server 9 4 (1.187 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 4 (1.187 %) Apache 10 3 (0.890 %) BizTalk Server 10 3 (0.890 %) Live Communications Server 10 3 (0.890 %) GroupWise 10 3 (0.890 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 2 (0.593 %) Lotus Domino 12 1 (0.297 %) WebLogic 12 1 (0.297 %) Commerce Server 12 1 (0.297 %) Content Management Server 12 1 (0.297 %) Documentum
Applications 1 76 (22.55 %) MS Office 2 39 (11.57 %) MS Excel 3 13 (3.858 %) MS Project 4 4 (1.187 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (0.890 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.297 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 2 (0.593 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 38 (11.28 %) DNS 2 31 (9.199 %) TCP/IP 3 20 (5.935 %) DHCP 4 18 (5.341 %) SAN 4 18 (5.341 %) Internet 5 17 (5.045 %) LAN 6 15 (4.451 %) HTTP 7 13 (3.858 %) Firewall 8 12 (3.561 %) VPN 8 12 (3.561 %) WAN 9 7 (2.077 %) SMS 9 7 (2.077 %) Wireless 10 6 (1.780 %) WINS 11 2 (0.593 %) IPX 11 2 (0.593 %) Network Security 11 2 (0.593 %) NetScreen 12 1 (0.297 %) iSCSI 12 1 (0.297 %) DDNS 12 1 (0.297 %) X.500 12 1 (0.297 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 38 (11.28 %) SQL Server 2 10 (2.967 %) MSDE 3 8 (2.374 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (2.077 %) SQL Server 7 4 7 (2.077 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (1.484 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 2 (0.593 %) MySQL 6 2 (0.593 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.297 %) Informix 7 1 (0.297 %) DTS 7 1 (0.297 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.297 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.297 %) IDOL 7 1 (0.297 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 17 (5.045 %) TestDirector 2 15 (4.451 %) StarTeam 3 8 (2.374 %) WinRunner 4 7 (2.077 %) LoadRunner 5 6 (1.780 %) QuickTest Pro 6 4 (1.187 %) MSI 7 3 (0.890 %) Ant 7 3 (0.890 %) JUnit 8 2 (0.593 %) ClearCase 9 1 (0.297 %) Eclipse 9 1 (0.297 %) Visual Studio 9 1 (0.297 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.297 %) LabVIEW 9 1 (0.297 %) NUnit 9 1 (0.297 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.297 %) QARun	General 1 33 (9.792 %) Government 2 19 (5.638 %) Finance 3 8 (2.374 %) Telecoms 4 6 (1.780 %) Auditing 5 3 (0.890 %) Health 5 3 (0.890 %) Military 6 2 (0.593 %) Banking 6 2 (0.593 %) Retail 6 2 (0.593 %) Billing 6 2 (0.593 %) Insurance 6 2 (0.593 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (0.593 %) Back Office 6 2 (0.593 %) Aerospace 7 1 (0.297 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 58 (17.21 %) Analyst 2 34 (10.09 %) Consultant 3 25 (7.418 %) Developer 4 20 (5.935 %) Architect 5 19 (5.638 %) Tester 5 19 (5.638 %) Support Engineer 6 18 (5.341 %) 3rd Line Support 6 18 (5.341 %) Helpdesk Support 7 17 (5.045 %) Support Analyst 8 16 (4.748 %) Server Engineer 9 14 (4.154 %) Server Support 10 13 (3.858 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 12 (3.561 %) Team Leader 12 11 (3.264 %) 1st Line Support 12 11 (3.264 %) 2nd Line Support 12 11 (3.264 %) Administrator 13 9 (2.671 %) Support Technician 13 9 (2.671 %) Test Analyst 13 9 (2.671 %) SharePoint Developer 14 8 (2.374 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 39 (11.57 %) Clustering 2 19 (5.638 %) Replication 3 8 (2.374 %) Blackberry 4 5 (1.484 %) French Language 5 4 (1.187 %) Smartphone 5 4 (1.187 %) PDA 6 3 (0.890 %) Management Information System 7 2 (0.593 %) CLARiiON 7 2 (0.593 %) Statistics 8 1 (0.297 %) Taxonomies 8 1 (0.297 %) Derivative 8 1 (0.297 %) German Language 8 1 (0.297 %) Portuguese Language 8 1 (0.297 %) Spanish Language 8 1 (0.297 %) Fat Client 8 1 (0.297 %) Video Conferencing 8 1 (0.297 %) N-Tier 8 1 (0.297 %) Thin Client 8 1 (0.297 %) CESG 8 1 (0.297 %) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems 1 91 (27.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 76 (22.55 %) Windows XP 3 64 (18.99 %) Windows 2000 4 22 (6.528 %) Unix 5 13 (3.858 %) Solaris 6 9 (2.671 %) Linux 7 8 (2.374 %) Windows NT 8 7 (2.077 %) Windows Mobile 9 6 (1.780 %) AIX 10 3 (0.890 %) Windows Vista 11 2 (0.593 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.297 %) NetWare 12 1 (0.297 %) Windows CE 12 1 (0.297 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (6.528 %) Migration 2 21 (6.231 %) ITIL 3 20 (5.935 %) OO 4 14 (4.154 %) Network Load Balancing 5 11 (3.264 %) Configuration Management 6 10 (2.967 %) Project Management 6 10 (2.967 %) Service Management 6 10 (2.967 %) Disaster Recovery 7 9 (2.671 %) OOP 8 6 (1.780 %) Workflow 8 6 (1.780 %) Automated Testing 8 6 (1.780 %) Test Scripting 9 5 (1.484 %) Data Migration 9 5 (1.484 %) Load Balancing 9 5 (1.484 %) Content Management 10 4 (1.187 %) Validation 10 4 (1.187 %) Business Desktop Deployment 10 4 (1.187 %) UML 10 4 (1.187 %) Time Management 11 2 (0.593 %) Performance Testing
Programming Languages 1 54 (16.02 %) SQL 2 40 (11.87 %) VB 3 32 (9.496 %) C# 4 19 (5.638 %) VBScript 5 16 (4.748 %) Java 6 13 (3.858 %) C 7 11 (3.264 %) VBA 8 10 (2.967 %) C++ 8 10 (2.967 %) Perl 8 10 (2.967 %) VB6 9 2 (0.593 %) XPath 9 2 (0.593 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (0.297 %) PHP 10 1 (0.297 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.297 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.297 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.297 %) Python 10 1 (0.297 %) REXX 10 1 (0.297 %) Tcl 10 1 (0.297 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 48 (14.24 %) Microsoft Certification 2 25 (7.418 %) MCSE 3 11 (3.264 %) MCP 4 10 (2.967 %) MCSA 5 7 (2.077 %) ISEB 6 3 (0.890 %) Citrix Certification 6 3 (0.890 %) Cisco Certification 7 2 (0.593 %) CCA 7 2 (0.593 %) CCNA 7 2 (0.593 %) Degree 8 1 (0.297 %) A+ Certification 8 1 (0.297 %) EMC Certification 8 1 (0.297 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 1 (0.297 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.187 %) SLA 2 1 (0.297 %) QA	System Software 1 70 (20.77 %) Active Directory 2 15 (4.451 %) NetBackup 3 8 (2.374 %) VMware ESX 4 7 (2.077 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.593 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (0.593 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (0.593 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 2 (0.593 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (0.593 %) VMware Server 6 1 (0.297 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (0.297 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.297 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 21 (6.231 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 11 (3.264 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 8 (2.374 %) SCCM 4 4 (1.187 %) MOM 4 4 (1.187 %) WSUS 5 3 (0.890 %) Netcool 5 3 (0.890 %) SCOM 5 3 (0.890 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.593 %) Tivoli 6 2 (0.593 %) BMC PATROL 7 1 (0.297 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (0.297 %) MIIS 7 1 (0.297 %) EMC Navisphere 7 1 (0.297 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 1 (0.297 %) Unicenter 7 1 (0.297 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 7 1 (0.297 %) Netcool/Webtop	Vendors 1 173 (51.34 %) Microsoft 2 36 (10.68 %) HP 3 27 (8.012 %) Lotus 3 27 (8.012 %) VMware 4 23 (6.825 %) Citrix 5 16 (4.748 %) Dell 5 16 (4.748 %) VERITAS 6 15 (4.451 %) Borland 7 13 (3.858 %) Cisco 8 11 (3.264 %) IBM 9 7 (2.077 %) Altiris 10 6 (1.780 %) Oracle 10 6 (1.780 %) Compaq 11 5 (1.484 %) Sun 11 5 (1.484 %) CA 11 5 (1.484 %) Novell 12 4 (1.187 %) NetApp 12 4 (1.187 %) Remedy 12 4 (1.187 %) Symbian 12 4 (1.187 %) EMC