Runcorn Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Runcorn 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Kilbride West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	4
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	83.33 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£313
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.55	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Operating Systems Runcorn
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Cheshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Runcorn 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 IT contract jobs citing Windows across the Runcorn region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Runcorn region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn region citing Windows 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.

1 10 (83.33 %) MS Office 2 8 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (58.33 %) Active Directory 4 4 (33.33 %) MS Excel 5 3 (25.00 %) Windows XP 5 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (16.67 %) LANDesk 6 2 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 7 1 (8.333 %) Migration 7 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 7 1 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (8.333 %) ADSL 7 1 (8.333 %) Broadband 7 1 (8.333 %) Windows 2000

7 1 (8.333 %) MCSE 7 1 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 10 (83.33 %) MS Office 2 4 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (8.333 %) ADSL 2 1 (8.333 %) Broadband	Job Titles 1 9 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (50.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 4 (33.33 %) 1st Line Support 4 3 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (16.67 %) Service Analyst 5 2 (16.67 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 1 (8.333 %) Server Support Analyst 6 1 (8.333 %) Desktop Analyst 6 1 (8.333 %) Server Analyst 6 1 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 1 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 6 1 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (8.333 %) Server Support
Operating Systems 1 3 (25.00 %) Windows XP 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (8.333 %) Migration
Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 7 (58.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (16.67 %) LANDesk