South West Windows Vista Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista 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 jobs that have cited Windows Vista over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	143
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching contract IT job ads	41	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	4.762 %	2.481 %
Daily rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£393
Average daily rate	£401	£408
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£362
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.20	£38.50
Average hourly rate	£22.60	£39.25
% change on same period last year	-42.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.75	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-30.91 %
Operating Systems South West
Matching contract IT job ads	861	1290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.167 %	1.277 %
Daily rates quoted	207	319
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£340
Average daily rate	£340	£352
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	187	254
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.33	£21.56
Average hourly rate	£25.76	£23.36
% change on same period last year	+10.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.18	£25.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.58	£22.59
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Windows Vista 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 Vista
Demand Trend

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

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Windows Vista
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Vista within the South West region over the 3 months to 8 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
Gloucestershire	+17	30	£401	-11.08 %
Wiltshire	+7	4	-	-
Bristol	+2	3	-	-
Somerset	+2	2	-	-

Windows Vista England

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 56 (100.00 %) Windows 2 39 (69.64 %) Security Cleared 3 28 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 27 (48.21 %) Windows Server 2008 5 19 (33.93 %) DV Cleared 5 19 (33.93 %) UNIX 6 16 (28.57 %) Active Directory 7 15 (26.79 %) Solaris 7 15 (26.79 %) Windows 2000 7 15 (26.79 %) MS Exchange 8 13 (23.21 %) PKI 9 12 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 9 12 (21.43 %) SQL Server 9 12 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 10 11 (19.64 %) Telecoms

10 11 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 10 (17.86 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 10 (17.86 %) VMware 11 10 (17.86 %) ITIL 12 9 (16.07 %) TCP/IP 12 9 (16.07 %) Windows XP 12 9 (16.07 %) Government 13 8 (14.29 %) Service Management 13 8 (14.29 %) ISA Server 14 7 (12.50 %) HNC 14 7 (12.50 %) Degree 15 6 (10.71 %) VMware ESX 15 6 (10.71 %) SMTP 15 6 (10.71 %) DMZ 15 6 (10.71 %) X.400

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 15 (26.79 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (5.357 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (3.571 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 2 (3.571 %) IIS 5 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 4 (7.143 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.357 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (3.571 %) assyst 2 1 (1.786 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.07 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (10.71 %) SMTP 2 6 (10.71 %) DMZ 2 6 (10.71 %) X.400 3 5 (8.929 %) X.500 4 4 (7.143 %) DNS 5 3 (5.357 %) DHCP 5 3 (5.357 %) FTP 5 3 (5.357 %) LDAP 6 2 (3.571 %) VPN 7 1 (1.786 %) LAN 7 1 (1.786 %) SMS 7 1 (1.786 %) WAN 7 1 (1.786 %) SAN 7 1 (1.786 %) Firewall 7 1 (1.786 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.786 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) MSI 1 1 (1.786 %) Subversion
General 1 11 (19.64 %) Telecoms 2 9 (16.07 %) Government 3 5 (8.929 %) Finance 3 5 (8.929 %) Legal 4 4 (7.143 %) Electric 5 2 (3.571 %) Front Office 6 1 (1.786 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.786 %) Health	Job Titles 1 11 (19.64 %) Consultant 2 10 (17.86 %) UNIX Support 3 7 (12.50 %) Support Specialist 4 6 (10.71 %) Architect 5 5 (8.929 %) Solutions Architect 5 5 (8.929 %) Systems Support 5 5 (8.929 %) Security Architect 6 4 (7.143 %) UNIX Specialist 6 4 (7.143 %) Technical Support 6 4 (7.143 %) Server Specialist 6 4 (7.143 %) Messaging Specialist 7 2 (3.571 %) Microsoft Consultant 7 2 (3.571 %) Vista Consultant 7 2 (3.571 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (3.571 %) Support Technician 7 2 (3.571 %) 2nd Line Support 7 2 (3.571 %) Desktop Support 8 1 (1.786 %) Developer 8 1 (1.786 %) Analyst 8 1 (1.786 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 13 (23.21 %) PKI 2 5 (8.929 %) Smartcard 3 4 (7.143 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.786 %) CESG 4 1 (1.786 %) SecurID 4 1 (1.786 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.786 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 56 (100.00 %) Windows 2 27 (48.21 %) Windows Server 2008 3 19 (33.93 %) UNIX 4 15 (26.79 %) Solaris 4 15 (26.79 %) Windows 2000 5 12 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 6 9 (16.07 %) Windows XP 7 3 (5.357 %) HPUX 8 2 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (1.786 %) Red Hat Linux 9 1 (1.786 %) Linux 9 1 (1.786 %) Tru64 9 1 (1.786 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (69.64 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (33.93 %) DV Cleared 3 12 (21.43 %) SC Cleared 4 10 (17.86 %) ITIL 5 8 (14.29 %) Service Management 6 4 (7.143 %) Migration 6 4 (7.143 %) Problem Management 7 2 (3.571 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (3.571 %) Data Migration 7 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (3.571 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Business Desktop Deployment 8 1 (1.786 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Asset Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Matrix Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.571 %) C 2 1 (1.786 %) C# 2 1 (1.786 %) C++ 2 1 (1.786 %) Perl 2 1 (1.786 %) SQL 2 1 (1.786 %) VBScript 2 1 (1.786 %) VB
Qualifications 1 7 (12.50 %) HNC 1 7 (12.50 %) Degree 2 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (3.571 %) MCP 3 2 (3.571 %) MCSE 4 1 (1.786 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.786 %) MCT 4 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.786 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.929 %) SLA 2 1 (1.786 %) CESG Infosec
System Software 1 16 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 10 (17.86 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 8 (14.29 %) ISA Server 4 6 (10.71 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (5.357 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 28 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 10 (17.86 %) VMware 3 4 (7.143 %) HP 4 3 (5.357 %) Symantec 4 3 (5.357 %) Altiris 5 2 (3.571 %) Novell 6 1 (1.786 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.786 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.786 %) Dell 6 1 (1.786 %) Nortel 6 1 (1.786 %) Avaya