Rugby Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Rugby 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 XP over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Consett Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Durham East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Hull Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shefford Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Templecombe Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	6
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	31.25 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£120
Average daily rate	-	£125
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£130
UK excluding London average daily rate	£212	£274
% change on same period last year	-22.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.40	£15.99
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Operating Systems Rugby
Matching contract IT job ads	9	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£171
Average daily rate	£325	£175
% change on same period last year	+85.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£178
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£24.63	£12.00
% change on same period last year	+105.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.59	£21.59
% change on same period last year	-
Windows XP Warwickshire

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 XP
Demand Trend

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

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows XP
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Rugby 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 6 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (83.33 %) MS Office 2 5 (83.33 %) Active Directory 3 4 (66.67 %) Microsoft 4 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (33.33 %) SQL 4 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 4 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 5 1 (16.67 %) French Language

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Rugby 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 Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 5 (83.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 3 (50.00 %) Support Analyst 1 3 (50.00 %) Helpdesk Support 2 2 (33.33 %) Systems Support Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Systems Support 2 2 (33.33 %) 1st Line Support 2 2 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 2 2 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows Support Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 6 (100.00 %) Windows
Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 5 (83.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco