Scotland Windows XP Contracts

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

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	51
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	55	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.088 %
As % of the category below	10.38 %	10.51 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£165	£227
Average daily rate	£180	£232
% change on same period last year	-22.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£269
% change on same period last year	-16.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.18	£13.40
Average hourly rate	£17.72	£14.94
% change on same period last year	+18.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.26	£16.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.28	£16.75
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Operating Systems Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	530	828
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.706 %	0.838 %
Daily rates quoted	84	179
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£318
Average daily rate	£283	£334
% change on same period last year	-15.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.93	£16.60
Average hourly rate	£19.65	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+10.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.37	£19.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows XP 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 XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Scotland region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows XP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+3	16	£95	-52.50 %
Edinburgh	+3	13	£193	+24.19 %
Glasgow	-6	13	-	-
Highlands	-	4	£230	-
North Ayrshire	-	2	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	1	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
Ayrshire	-1	1	-	-

Windows XP UK

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 113 (99.12 %) Windows 2 48 (42.11 %) Active Directory 3 43 (37.72 %) MS Office 4 31 (27.19 %) Microsoft 5 27 (23.68 %) Windows 2000 6 18 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 14 (12.28 %) Lotus Notes 7 14 (12.28 %) LAN 7 14 (12.28 %) Cisco 7 14 (12.28 %) Lotus 8 13 (11.40 %) Finance 9 12 (10.53 %) Microsoft Certification 9 12 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 9 12 (10.53 %) MS Excel 10 11 (9.649 %) WAN

10 11 (9.649 %) Citrix 10 11 (9.649 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 12 9 (7.895 %) MCP 12 9 (7.895 %) SMS 12 9 (7.895 %) DNS 12 9 (7.895 %) MCSE 12 9 (7.895 %) Migration 13 8 (7.018 %) Windows Server 2003 14 7 (6.140 %) TCP/IP 15 6 (5.263 %) Windows NT 15 6 (5.263 %) HP 16 5 (4.386 %) Blackberry 16 5 (4.386 %) MSI 16 5 (4.386 %) DHCP

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Development 1 2 (1.754 %) .NET 1 2 (1.754 %) XML 2 1 (0.877 %) Software Packaging 2 1 (0.877 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (0.877 %) SOAP 2 1 (0.877 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 18 (15.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 14 (12.28 %) Lotus Notes 3 12 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 4 11 (9.649 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (0.877 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.877 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.877 %) IIS
Applications 1 43 (37.72 %) MS Office 2 12 (10.53 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.877 %) Great Plains 1 1 (0.877 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 14 (12.28 %) LAN 2 11 (9.649 %) WAN 3 9 (7.895 %) SMS 3 9 (7.895 %) DNS 4 7 (6.140 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (4.386 %) DHCP 6 4 (3.509 %) SAN 7 2 (1.754 %) Internet 7 2 (1.754 %) VoIP 8 1 (0.877 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.877 %) Extranet 8 1 (0.877 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 5 (4.386 %) MSI	General 1 13 (11.40 %) Finance 2 5 (4.386 %) Banking 3 3 (2.632 %) Retail 4 2 (1.754 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (1.754 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (1.754 %) Government 4 2 (1.754 %) Health 4 2 (1.754 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.877 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 39 (34.21 %) Analyst 2 15 (13.16 %) Support Analyst 3 14 (12.28 %) Desktop Support 4 11 (9.649 %) Support Engineer 5 10 (8.772 %) Service Analyst 5 10 (8.772 %) 2nd Line Support 5 10 (8.772 %) Administrator 5 10 (8.772 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 10 (8.772 %) Desktop Engineer 6 9 (7.895 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 6 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Administrator 7 6 (5.263 %) Cisco Administrator 7 6 (5.263 %) Windows Administrator 8 5 (4.386 %) 1st Line Support 8 5 (4.386 %) Applications Packager 8 5 (4.386 %) Desktop Support Engineer 9 4 (3.509 %) Server Support 9 4 (3.509 %) Support Technician 10 3 (2.632 %) Technical Support 10 3 (2.632 %) Helpdesk Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.386 %) Blackberry 2 3 (2.632 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.877 %) NHS 3 1 (0.877 %) Handset 3 1 (0.877 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 113 (99.12 %) Windows 2 27 (23.68 %) Windows 2000 3 8 (7.018 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (5.263 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.877 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 2 9 (7.895 %) Migration 3 2 (1.754 %) Service Management 3 2 (1.754 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (1.754 %) Data Migration 4 1 (0.877 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (0.877 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (0.877 %) Change Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Logistics 4 1 (0.877 %) Problem Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Release Management 4 1 (0.877 %) ERP 4 1 (0.877 %) CAD 4 1 (0.877 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (1.754 %) SQL 2 1 (0.877 %) VB 2 1 (0.877 %) Shell Script 2 1 (0.877 %) C	Qualifications 1 12 (10.53 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (7.895 %) MCP 2 9 (7.895 %) MCSE 3 3 (2.632 %) CCNA 3 3 (2.632 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (2.632 %) MCDST 4 1 (0.877 %) Degree 4 1 (0.877 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.877 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (0.877 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.754 %) SLA	System Software 1 48 (42.11 %) Active Directory 2 4 (3.509 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (2.632 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (1.754 %) Terminal Server 4 2 (1.754 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.877 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.877 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.877 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.877 %) PowerConvert
Systems Management 1 2 (1.754 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (1.754 %) ARCserve 2 1 (0.877 %) DameWare 2 1 (0.877 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 31 (27.19 %) Microsoft 2 14 (12.28 %) Cisco 2 14 (12.28 %) Lotus 3 11 (9.649 %) Citrix 4 6 (5.263 %) HP 5 5 (4.386 %) VMware 6 4 (3.509 %) Dell 6 4 (3.509 %) Novell 7 3 (2.632 %) IBM 7 3 (2.632 %) McAfee Security 8 2 (1.754 %) Remedy 9 1 (0.877 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.877 %) Altiris 9 1 (0.877 %) PlateSpin 9 1 (0.877 %) PeopleSoft 9 1 (0.877 %) SAP 9 1 (0.877 %) VERITAS