Staffordshire Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Staffordshire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Aylesbury Ayrshire Banstead Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle 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 Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth 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 Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	22
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	20	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	31.75 %	16.13 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£208	-
Average daily rate	£217	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£225	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£227	£257
% change on same period last year	-11.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£14.33
Average hourly rate	£14.25	£15.33
% change on same period last year	-7.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£16.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.57	£17.15
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Operating Systems Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	63	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	17	11
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£301
Average daily rate	£308	£313
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.97	£13.21
Average hourly rate	£14.30	£14.16
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.63	£15.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Windows XP West Midlands

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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Staffordshire region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	2	-	-
Stafford	+1	1	-	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	1	-	-
Cannock	-	1	-	-

Windows XP West Midlands

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 34 (100.00 %) Windows 2 23 (67.65 %) MS Office 3 17 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (41.18 %) Active Directory 5 12 (35.29 %) Microsoft 6 7 (20.59 %) MS Excel 7 5 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (11.76 %) SLA 8 4 (11.76 %) Dell 8 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (11.76 %) PDA 8 4 (11.76 %) Manufacturing 9 3 (8.824 %) MCP 9 3 (8.824 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (5.882 %) Blackberry

10 2 (5.882 %) ITIL 10 2 (5.882 %) SQL 10 2 (5.882 %) VBScript 10 2 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 10 2 (5.882 %) MS PowerPoint 10 2 (5.882 %) Windows Vista 10 2 (5.882 %) Finance 11 1 (2.941 %) Education 11 1 (2.941 %) Quality Management 11 1 (2.941 %) Wireless 11 1 (2.941 %) Workflow 11 1 (2.941 %) Network+ Certification 11 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 1 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 1 (2.941 %) Windows 2000 Server

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 Platforms 1 2 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 23 (67.65 %) MS Office 2 7 (20.59 %) MS Excel 3 2 (5.882 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.941 %) Wireless 1 1 (2.941 %) LAN 1 1 (2.941 %) DHCP 1 1 (2.941 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.941 %) VPN	General 1 4 (11.76 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (5.882 %) Finance 3 1 (2.941 %) Education
Job Titles 1 13 (38.24 %) Desktop Support 2 11 (32.35 %) Analyst 3 10 (29.41 %) Support Engineer 4 9 (26.47 %) Support Analyst 5 7 (20.59 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (20.59 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 7 (20.59 %) Desktop Engineer 6 4 (11.76 %) Technical Support 7 3 (8.824 %) Technical Support Analyst 7 3 (8.824 %) Helpdesk Support 7 3 (8.824 %) Technical Analyst 7 3 (8.824 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 3 (8.824 %) PC Support 7 3 (8.824 %) 1st Line Support 8 2 (5.882 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 2 (5.882 %) Desktop Analyst 8 2 (5.882 %) Desktop Support Analyst 9 1 (2.941 %) Service Analyst 9 1 (2.941 %) Field Engineer 9 1 (2.941 %) Service Desk Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.76 %) PDA 2 2 (5.882 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 34 (100.00 %) Windows 2 17 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (14.71 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (8.824 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (5.882 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.941 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.941 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.882 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.941 %) Quality Management 2 1 (2.941 %) Workflow 2 1 (2.941 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (5.882 %) SQL 1 2 (5.882 %) VBScript 2 1 (2.941 %) VB	Qualifications 1 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (8.824 %) MCP 3 1 (2.941 %) Network+ Certification 3 1 (2.941 %) MCDST 3 1 (2.941 %) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (11.76 %) SLA 2 1 (2.941 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 14 (41.18 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 12 (35.29 %) Microsoft 2 4 (11.76 %) Dell 3 1 (2.941 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.941 %) IBM 3 1 (2.941 %) HP 3 1 (2.941 %) Lotus