The first table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT 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 Scotland 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 NT
Rank 114 109 100
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows NT 4 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.164% 0.038% 0.398%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.722% 0.205% 2.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £190 £338
% change year-on-year
+56.71% -43.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £27.00 £14.25
% change year-on-year
-40.74% +89.47%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
554 487 504
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.71% 18.31% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 192 170
Average daily rate £363 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £120 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 37 36
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.75 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% +33.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.55 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £31.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows NT
UK

Windows NT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Windows NT Jobs Demand Trend

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Windows NT Daily Rate Trend

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Windows NT Hourly Rate Trend

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 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Windows NT
UK

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 7
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) NHS
3 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Intranet
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) MS Access
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 7
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (25.00%) MS Access
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) SQL DBA
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix