South West Windows NT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows NT over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coalville Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hackney Hampshire Hartlepool Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	47
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	53	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.159 %
As % of the category below	6.830 %	11.94 %
Daily rates quoted	8	29
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£287
Average daily rate	£399	£300
% change on same period last year	+32.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£260	£312
% change on same period last year	-16.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.78	£18.95
Average hourly rate	£19.59	£19.91
% change on same period last year	-1.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.39	£20.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.21	£19.33
% change on same period last year	+4.54 %
Operating Systems South West
Matching contract IT job ads	776	1256
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.023 %	1.332 %
Daily rates quoted	192	254
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£318
Average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	252
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£21.97
Average hourly rate	£25.25	£23.30
% change on same period last year	+8.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.58	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows NT England

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 South West 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 South West region.

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 South West region.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows NT
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows NT within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 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
Wiltshire	-14	16	£450	+83.93 %
Bristol	-11	14	£325	+16.41 %
Somerset	-3	8	£465	-
Gloucestershire	-22	6	£250	-33.11 %
Devon	+2	4	-	-
Cornwall	+7	2	-	-
Dorset	+1	2	£475	+19.49 %

Windows NT England

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 81 (72.97 %) Windows 2 40 (36.04 %) Active Directory 3 32 (28.83 %) Windows XP 4 29 (26.13 %) Windows 2000 5 22 (19.82 %) Microsoft 6 19 (17.12 %) Security Cleared 7 17 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 8 15 (13.51 %) Ethernet 9 14 (12.61 %) LAN 9 14 (12.61 %) Finance 10 13 (11.71 %) SC Cleared 10 13 (11.71 %) SQL 11 11 (9.910 %) MS Office 11 11 (9.910 %) Citrix 12 10 (9.009 %) Windows Server 2003

12 10 (9.009 %) WAN 12 10 (9.009 %) Oracle 12 10 (9.009 %) Unix 12 10 (9.009 %) MCSE 12 10 (9.009 %) Firewall 13 9 (8.108 %) Migration 13 9 (8.108 %) Novell 14 8 (7.207 %) NetWare 14 8 (7.207 %) DNS 14 8 (7.207 %) TCP/IP 14 8 (7.207 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 7 (6.306 %) Citrix Presentation Server 15 7 (6.306 %) Government 15 7 (6.306 %) ARCserve 15 7 (6.306 %) GroupWise

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 4 (3.604 %) .NET 2 3 (2.703 %) J2EE 2 3 (2.703 %) STL 2 3 (2.703 %) HTML 3 2 (1.802 %) XML 4 1 (0.901 %) XSLT 4 1 (0.901 %) ODBC 4 1 (0.901 %) CORBA 4 1 (0.901 %) RSS 4 1 (0.901 %) EDI 4 1 (0.901 %) WinForms 4 1 (0.901 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 1 (0.901 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.901 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.901 %) ADO 4 1 (0.901 %) ADO.NET 4 1 (0.901 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.207 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 7 (6.306 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (6.306 %) GroupWise 3 6 (5.405 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (3.604 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 4 (3.604 %) IIS 5 3 (2.703 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (1.802 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.802 %) Documentum 7 1 (0.901 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.901 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (9.910 %) MS Office 2 3 (2.703 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.802 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (4.505 %) Summit 2 2 (1.802 %) assyst 3 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (0.901 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 15 (13.51 %) Ethernet 2 14 (12.61 %) LAN 3 10 (9.009 %) WAN 3 10 (9.009 %) Firewall 4 8 (7.207 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (7.207 %) DNS 5 6 (5.405 %) DHCP 6 5 (4.505 %) WINS 7 4 (3.604 %) PSTN 8 3 (2.703 %) SMTP 8 3 (2.703 %) PBX 8 3 (2.703 %) VPN 8 3 (2.703 %) Internet 9 2 (1.802 %) TELNET 9 2 (1.802 %) SMS 9 2 (1.802 %) SNMP 9 2 (1.802 %) HTTPS 10 1 (0.901 %) SSL 10 1 (0.901 %) SAN 10 1 (0.901 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.802 %) SQL Server 1 2 (1.802 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (0.901 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (0.901 %) ETL 2 1 (0.901 %) PowerCenter 2 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (0.901 %) IDMS 2 1 (0.901 %) DB2 2 1 (0.901 %) OLAP 2 1 (0.901 %) Informix 2 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 3 (2.703 %) Oracle APEX 2 2 (1.802 %) PVCS 3 1 (0.901 %) MSI 3 1 (0.901 %) Subversion	General 1 14 (12.61 %) Finance 2 7 (6.306 %) Government 3 3 (2.703 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.802 %) Banking 4 2 (1.802 %) Telecoms 4 2 (1.802 %) Electric 5 1 (0.901 %) Aerospace 5 1 (0.901 %) Education 5 1 (0.901 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.901 %) Criminal Justice 5 1 (0.901 %) Military 5 1 (0.901 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.901 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 30 (27.03 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (11.71 %) IT Support Engineer 3 11 (9.910 %) Desktop Support 4 10 (9.009 %) Technical Support 5 9 (8.108 %) Technical Support Engineer 5 9 (8.108 %) Technical Engineer 6 8 (7.207 %) Analyst 7 7 (6.306 %) Novell Engineer 8 6 (5.405 %) Desktop Engineer 8 6 (5.405 %) 2nd Line Support 9 5 (4.505 %) Helpdesk Support 9 5 (4.505 %) Consultant 9 5 (4.505 %) Project Manager 9 5 (4.505 %) Support Analyst 10 4 (3.604 %) Server Support 10 4 (3.604 %) Migration Engineer 10 4 (3.604 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 4 (3.604 %) Administrator 10 4 (3.604 %) Field Engineer 10 4 (3.604 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.703 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.901 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.901 %) Blackberry 2 1 (0.901 %) Replication 2 1 (0.901 %) French Language 2 1 (0.901 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 81 (72.97 %) Windows 2 32 (28.83 %) Windows XP 3 29 (26.13 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (9.009 %) Unix 4 10 (9.009 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (7.207 %) NetWare 6 6 (5.405 %) Solaris 7 3 (2.703 %) Linux 8 2 (1.802 %) Tru64 9 1 (0.901 %) Fedora 9 1 (0.901 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.901 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (17.12 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (11.71 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (8.108 %) Migration 4 5 (4.505 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (4.505 %) Data Migration 5 4 (3.604 %) UML 5 4 (3.604 %) RAD 5 4 (3.604 %) ITIL 6 3 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (2.703 %) Project Management 6 3 (2.703 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (2.703 %) DV Cleared 6 3 (2.703 %) Network Design 7 2 (1.802 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (1.802 %) PRINCE 7 2 (1.802 %) Service Management 7 2 (1.802 %) Document Management 8 1 (0.901 %) Zachman Framework 8 1 (0.901 %) TOGAF 8 1 (0.901 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 13 (11.71 %) SQL 2 6 (5.405 %) Java 3 5 (4.505 %) Shell Script 4 4 (3.604 %) JavaScript 4 4 (3.604 %) VB 5 3 (2.703 %) VBA 5 3 (2.703 %) VC++ 5 3 (2.703 %) C++ 6 2 (1.802 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (1.802 %) C# 7 1 (0.901 %) C 7 1 (0.901 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.901 %) ABAP 7 1 (0.901 %) SAPscript 7 1 (0.901 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 17 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (9.009 %) MCSE 3 7 (6.306 %) MCSA 3 7 (6.306 %) CNA 3 7 (6.306 %) CNE 3 7 (6.306 %) Novell Certification 4 5 (4.505 %) MCP 5 2 (1.802 %) HNC 6 1 (0.901 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.901 %) Degree 6 1 (0.901 %) OCP 6 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.802 %) QA 2 1 (0.901 %) SLA	System Software 1 40 (36.04 %) Active Directory 2 7 (6.306 %) NDS 2 7 (6.306 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 3 (2.703 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (2.703 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.802 %) VMware Server 4 2 (1.802 %) VMware Workstation 4 2 (1.802 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.901 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.901 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 7 (6.306 %) ARCserve 2 2 (1.802 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 22 (19.82 %) Microsoft 2 11 (9.910 %) Citrix 3 10 (9.009 %) Oracle 4 9 (8.108 %) Novell 5 6 (5.405 %) Cisco 5 6 (5.405 %) VMware 6 4 (3.604 %) IBM 7 3 (2.703 %) VERITAS 7 3 (2.703 %) Lotus 7 3 (2.703 %) HP 8 2 (1.802 %) SAP 8 2 (1.802 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (0.901 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (0.901 %) Trillium 9 1 (0.901 %) Sybase 9 1 (0.901 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.901 %) Compaq 9 1 (0.901 %) Dell 9 1 (0.901 %) Informatica 9 1 (0.901 %) Red Hat