Scotland Windows NT Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the Scotland 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 NT over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Kingswinford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Lutterworth Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Romford Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witham Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	87
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	14	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	2.593 %	4.988 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£140	£450
Average daily rate	£143	£465
% change on same period last year	-69.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£147	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£337
% change on same period last year	-33.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£24.18
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-35.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£25.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.77	£19.36
% change on same period last year	+7.25 %
Operating Systems Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	540	802
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.730 %	0.791 %
Daily rates quoted	111	176
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£318
Average daily rate	£284	£336
% change on same period last year	-15.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	74	101
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.31	£17.65
Average hourly rate	£20.81	£18.89
% change on same period last year	+10.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	£20.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.70	£22.66
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Windows NT UK

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 NT
Demand Trend

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

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Aberdeen	+6	9	£130	-74.00 %
Edinburgh	-6	2	-	-
Glasgow	+6	1	-	-
Dundee	-	1	-	-

Windows NT UK

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 26 (100.00 %) Windows 2 19 (73.08 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (50.00 %) Windows XP 4 12 (46.15 %) Active Directory 5 11 (42.31 %) TCP/IP 6 8 (30.77 %) DNS 6 8 (30.77 %) DHCP 6 8 (30.77 %) Cisco 7 7 (26.92 %) BGP 7 7 (26.92 %) EIGRP 7 7 (26.92 %) Ethernet 7 7 (26.92 %) ATM 7 7 (26.92 %) RIP 7 7 (26.92 %) FDDI 7 7 (26.92 %) Gigabit Ethernet

7 7 (26.92 %) VLAN 7 7 (26.92 %) Cisco PIX 8 6 (23.08 %) LAN 8 6 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 8 6 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (19.23 %) WAN 9 5 (19.23 %) Finance 10 4 (15.38 %) SLA 10 4 (15.38 %) MS Excel 10 4 (15.38 %) UNIX 11 3 (11.54 %) Intranet 11 3 (11.54 %) Internet 11 3 (11.54 %) NetWare 11 3 (11.54 %) MS Office 11 3 (11.54 %) Telecoms

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.846 %) HTML 1 1 (3.846 %) .NET 1 1 (3.846 %) J2EE 1 1 (3.846 %) ASP 1 1 (3.846 %) DCOM 1 1 (3.846 %) XML 1 1 (3.846 %) ActiveX 1 1 (3.846 %) OLE 1 1 (3.846 %) OLE DB 1 1 (3.846 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 6 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.846 %) Tomcat 3 1 (3.846 %) WebLogic 3 1 (3.846 %) JBoss 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) MS Excel 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 11 (42.31 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (30.77 %) DNS 2 8 (30.77 %) DHCP 3 7 (26.92 %) Ethernet 3 7 (26.92 %) RIP 3 7 (26.92 %) ATM 3 7 (26.92 %) BGP 3 7 (26.92 %) EIGRP 3 7 (26.92 %) FDDI 3 7 (26.92 %) Gigabit Ethernet 3 7 (26.92 %) VLAN 3 7 (26.92 %) Cisco PIX 4 6 (23.08 %) LAN 5 5 (19.23 %) WAN 6 3 (11.54 %) VSAT 6 3 (11.54 %) Intranet 6 3 (11.54 %) Internet 7 1 (3.846 %) SAN 7 1 (3.846 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Access 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) TestDirector
General 1 5 (19.23 %) Finance 2 3 (11.54 %) Telecoms 3 2 (7.692 %) Education 3 2 (7.692 %) Banking 4 1 (3.846 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 8 (30.77 %) Analyst 2 4 (15.38 %) Desktop Support 2 4 (15.38 %) Network Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Desktop Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Cisco Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Server Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Server Support Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Server Support 3 3 (11.54 %) Applications Packager 3 3 (11.54 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Administrator 4 2 (7.692 %) Team Leader 4 2 (7.692 %) Test Team Leader 5 1 (3.846 %) Senior Support Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Technical Administrator 5 1 (3.846 %) Security Administrator 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Client/Server 1 1 (3.846 %) Mainframe 1 1 (3.846 %) Device Driver 1 1 (3.846 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 26 (100.00 %) Windows 2 19 (73.08 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (50.00 %) Windows XP 4 6 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (15.38 %) UNIX 6 3 (11.54 %) Windows Vista 6 3 (11.54 %) NetWare 7 1 (3.846 %) OS/2 7 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (11.54 %) Migration 1 3 (11.54 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (7.692 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.692 %) Regression Testing 2 2 (7.692 %) Workflow 2 2 (7.692 %) V-Model 3 1 (3.846 %) ITSM 3 1 (3.846 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (3.846 %) OO 3 1 (3.846 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.846 %) C++ 1 1 (3.846 %) DHTML 1 1 (3.846 %) Java 1 1 (3.846 %) JavaScript 1 1 (3.846 %) SQL 1 1 (3.846 %) VB 1 1 (3.846 %) Assembly Language
Qualifications 1 2 (7.692 %) CCNP 1 2 (7.692 %) ISEB 1 2 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (7.692 %) Degree 2 1 (3.846 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.846 %) CCDA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (15.38 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (46.15 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) Cisco 2 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 2 (7.692 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.846 %) Altiris 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.846 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.846 %) Novell