South Wales Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the South Wales 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	6
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	58	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	63.04 %	55.74 %
Daily rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£195
Average daily rate	£377	£208
% change on same period last year	+80.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£222
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.42	£26.76
Average hourly rate	£18.18	£28.91
% change on same period last year	-37.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.94	£31.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.88	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	92	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.123 %
Daily rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£330
Average daily rate	£334	£361
% change on same period last year	-7.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.64	£26.07
Average hourly rate	£17.46	£27.96
% change on same period last year	-37.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.28	£29.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows Wales

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 South Wales 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 South Wales region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Cardiff	0	25	£320	+6.66 %
Newport	-1	17	£487	+33.75 %
Bridgend	+6	2	-	-
Torfaen	-	1	-	-
Vale of Glamorgan	-	1	-	-
Glamorgan	-4	1	-	-
Gwent	-	1	-	-
Caerphilly	0	1	-	-

Windows Wales

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 61 (42.36 %) Windows XP 2 46 (31.94 %) Windows 2000 3 45 (31.25 %) Active Directory 3 45 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 4 43 (29.86 %) Microsoft 5 34 (23.61 %) MS Office 6 30 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 7 24 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 8 21 (14.58 %) SQL Server 9 19 (13.19 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 18 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 11 17 (11.81 %) Government 12 16 (11.11 %) Migration 12 16 (11.11 %) SQL 13 15 (10.42 %) .NET

14 14 (9.722 %) MS Excel 14 14 (9.722 %) Windows 2000 Server 15 13 (9.028 %) TCP/IP 15 13 (9.028 %) C# 16 12 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 17 11 (7.639 %) Oracle 18 10 (6.944 %) Visual Studio 18 10 (6.944 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 19 9 (6.250 %) Mainframe 19 9 (6.250 %) C++ 19 9 (6.250 %) UNIX 19 9 (6.250 %) VMware 19 9 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2007 20 8 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 20 8 (5.556 %) OO

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 Development 1 15 (10.42 %) .NET 2 7 (4.861 %) WebServices 2 7 (4.861 %) XML 3 5 (3.472 %) WebSphere 3 5 (3.472 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (2.083 %) WCF 4 3 (2.083 %) WF 4 3 (2.083 %) CORBA 4 3 (2.083 %) MVC 4 3 (2.083 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (2.083 %) HTML 5 2 (1.389 %) SAP Business Workflow 5 2 (1.389 %) JDBC 5 2 (1.389 %) SAP ALE 5 2 (1.389 %) J2EE 5 2 (1.389 %) ADO 6 1 (0.694 %) Silverlight 6 1 (0.694 %) WPF 6 1 (0.694 %) JSP 6 1 (0.694 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 30 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 2 19 (13.19 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 8 (5.556 %) GroupWise 4 8 (5.556 %) Apache 5 7 (4.861 %) SharePoint 5 7 (4.861 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 5 (3.472 %) IIS 7 4 (2.778 %) Tomcat 8 1 (0.694 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (0.694 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.694 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 34 (23.61 %) MS Office 2 14 (9.722 %) MS Excel 3 5 (3.472 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 2 (1.389 %) SAP PLM 2 1 (0.694 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 13 (9.028 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (4.861 %) Intranet 3 5 (3.472 %) Internet 3 5 (3.472 %) Extranet 4 4 (2.778 %) SAN 4 4 (2.778 %) DNS 4 4 (2.778 %) HTTP 4 4 (2.778 %) LAN 4 4 (2.778 %) WAN 5 3 (2.083 %) SMS 5 3 (2.083 %) IIOP 5 3 (2.083 %) VLAN 6 2 (1.389 %) Firewall 6 2 (1.389 %) DHCP 6 2 (1.389 %) GPRS 7 1 (0.694 %) GSM 7 1 (0.694 %) SMTP 7 1 (0.694 %) UMTS 7 1 (0.694 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.694 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (14.58 %) SQL Server 2 7 (4.861 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (4.167 %) RDBMS 4 5 (3.472 %) Oracle 11g 5 4 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.694 %) EDRMS 7 1 (0.694 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 10 (6.944 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.083 %) Rational Rose 2 3 (2.083 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (2.083 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (0.694 %) MSI 3 1 (0.694 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.694 %) AdminStudio 3 1 (0.694 %) Telelogic DOORS 3 1 (0.694 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.694 %) Flash	General 1 17 (11.81 %) Government 2 7 (4.861 %) Health 3 5 (3.472 %) Finance 4 4 (2.778 %) Telecoms 5 2 (1.389 %) Electric 5 2 (1.389 %) Aerospace 5 2 (1.389 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (1.389 %) Military 5 2 (1.389 %) Local Government 5 2 (1.389 %) Auditing 6 1 (0.694 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.694 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.694 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 23 (15.97 %) Analyst 2 17 (11.81 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 3 12 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 4 11 (7.639 %) 2nd Line Support 5 8 (5.556 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 8 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 5 8 (5.556 %) Server Engineer 6 7 (4.861 %) Helpdesk Support 6 7 (4.861 %) Systems Engineer 7 6 (4.167 %) Architect 7 6 (4.167 %) 3rd Line Support 8 5 (3.472 %) 1st Line Support 8 5 (3.472 %) Web Designer 8 5 (3.472 %) Desktop Engineer 8 5 (3.472 %) Technical Lead 8 5 (3.472 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 5 (3.472 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 9 4 (2.778 %) 1st Line Support Engineer 9 4 (2.778 %) Technical Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.250 %) Mainframe 2 5 (3.472 %) NHS 2 5 (3.472 %) Thin Client 2 5 (3.472 %) PACS 2 5 (3.472 %) Fat Client 3 4 (2.778 %) Replication 4 3 (2.083 %) Data Integration 4 3 (2.083 %) Clustering 5 2 (1.389 %) AS400 5 2 (1.389 %) Pocket PC 5 2 (1.389 %) Smartcard 6 1 (0.694 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.694 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.694 %) CLARiiON 6 1 (0.694 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 61 (42.36 %) Windows XP 2 46 (31.94 %) Windows 2000 3 45 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (9.722 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 9 (6.250 %) UNIX 6 8 (5.556 %) Windows Vista 6 8 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2008 7 6 (4.167 %) Linux 8 2 (1.389 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (0.694 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 18 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 16 (11.11 %) Migration 4 8 (5.556 %) OO 5 7 (4.861 %) Workflow 5 7 (4.861 %) UML 6 6 (4.167 %) ITIL 7 5 (3.472 %) OOD 7 5 (3.472 %) Document Management 7 5 (3.472 %) Network Design 7 5 (3.472 %) Knowledge Management 8 4 (2.778 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (2.083 %) Volume Testing 9 3 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (2.083 %) Information Security 9 3 (2.083 %) RUP 9 3 (2.083 %) CRM 10 2 (1.389 %) CMMI 10 2 (1.389 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 16 (11.11 %) SQL 2 13 (9.028 %) C# 3 9 (6.250 %) C++ 4 6 (4.167 %) C 5 3 (2.083 %) VB 5 3 (2.083 %) Java 6 2 (1.389 %) VB6 7 1 (0.694 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.694 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 12 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (3.472 %) MCP 2 5 (3.472 %) MCSE 3 3 (2.083 %) Degree 3 3 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (1.389 %) ITIL Certification 4 2 (1.389 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.694 %) MCSA 5 1 (0.694 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.389 %) ISO9001 1 2 (1.389 %) SLA 1 2 (1.389 %) QA	System Software 1 45 (31.25 %) Active Directory 2 8 (5.556 %) NDS 3 6 (4.167 %) Terminal Services 3 6 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 5 (3.472 %) Oracle RAC 5 4 (2.778 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 4 (2.778 %) VMware ESX 6 3 (2.083 %) Squid 7 2 (1.389 %) MetaFrame 7 2 (1.389 %) Terminal Server 8 1 (0.694 %) ISA Server 8 1 (0.694 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 10 (6.944 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.083 %) MOM 3 2 (1.389 %) SCOM 3 2 (1.389 %) Tivoli 3 2 (1.389 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (0.694 %) DameWare 4 1 (0.694 %) WSUS 4 1 (0.694 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 43 (29.86 %) Microsoft 2 11 (7.639 %) Oracle 3 9 (6.250 %) VMware 4 8 (5.556 %) Citrix 5 6 (4.167 %) VERITAS 5 6 (4.167 %) Dell 6 5 (3.472 %) IBM 6 5 (3.472 %) ICL 7 4 (2.778 %) HP 7 4 (2.778 %) McAfee Security 8 3 (2.083 %) Novell 8 3 (2.083 %) SAP 8 3 (2.083 %) Remedy 9 2 (1.389 %) Symantec 9 2 (1.389 %) Cisco 9 2 (1.389 %) Sophos 10 1 (0.694 %) FileNet 10 1 (0.694 %) Telelogic 10 1 (0.694 %) Lotus 10 1 (0.694 %) Siebel