Staffordshire Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield 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 Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Bromwich 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 Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	9
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	46	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	71.88 %	64.52 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£249	£250
Average daily rate	£260	£263
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£310
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.91	£12.38
Average hourly rate	£14.18	£13.25
% change on same period last year	+7.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.45	£14.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.15	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Operating Systems Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	64	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	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	-2.14 %
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	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows 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
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Staffordshire region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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	-4	10	£217	+73.33 %
Leek	0	3	-	-
Burton-upon-Trent	0	2	-	-
Cannock	-	2	-	-
Stafford	0	2	£370	-
Lichfield	+2	1	-	-

Windows West Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 35 (46.67 %) Windows XP 2 31 (41.33 %) Microsoft 3 30 (40.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 30 (40.00 %) MS Office 4 29 (38.67 %) Active Directory 5 9 (12.00 %) MS Excel 6 8 (10.67 %) VBScript 7 7 (9.333 %) Manufacturing 7 7 (9.333 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (9.333 %) Microsoft Certification 7 7 (9.333 %) Windows Mobile 8 6 (8.000 %) PDA 8 6 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 8 6 (8.000 %) Finance 9 5 (6.667 %) SQL Server

10 4 (5.333 %) SQL 10 4 (5.333 %) MCP 10 4 (5.333 %) UNIX 10 4 (5.333 %) SLA 10 4 (5.333 %) HP 10 4 (5.333 %) Dell 10 4 (5.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (5.333 %) Security Cleared 11 3 (4.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 3 (4.000 %) Windows Vista 11 3 (4.000 %) PHP5 11 3 (4.000 %) Blackberry 11 3 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (4.000 %) Citrix 11 3 (4.000 %) Lotus

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 3 (4.000 %) CSS 1 3 (4.000 %) .NET 1 3 (4.000 %) HTML 2 2 (2.667 %) WCF 3 1 (1.333 %) WinForms 3 1 (1.333 %) XML 3 1 (1.333 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (5.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (4.000 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.667 %) SAS 5 1 (1.333 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.333 %) Apache 5 1 (1.333 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 30 (40.00 %) MS Office 2 9 (12.00 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.667 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) Movex 1 1 (1.333 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.000 %) LAN 2 2 (2.667 %) WAN 2 2 (2.667 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.333 %) iSCSI 3 1 (1.333 %) Wireless 3 1 (1.333 %) SAN 3 1 (1.333 %) VPN 3 1 (1.333 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (4.000 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.333 %) RDBMS 3 1 (1.333 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.333 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 2 (2.667 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (2.667 %) Zend Studio 2 1 (1.333 %) TestDirector	General 1 7 (9.333 %) Manufacturing 2 6 (8.000 %) Finance 3 1 (1.333 %) Education 3 1 (1.333 %) Government
Job Titles 1 20 (26.67 %) Analyst 2 16 (21.33 %) Desktop Support 3 15 (20.00 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (13.33 %) Technical Support 4 10 (13.33 %) Support Engineer 5 8 (10.67 %) 2nd Line Support 6 7 (9.333 %) Desktop Engineer 6 7 (9.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 5 (6.667 %) Applications Packager 7 5 (6.667 %) Developer 7 5 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 7 5 (6.667 %) Technical Analyst 7 5 (6.667 %) Technical Support Analyst 8 4 (5.333 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 4 (5.333 %) 1st Line Support 9 3 (4.000 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 9 3 (4.000 %) PC Support 10 2 (2.667 %) Desktop Analyst 10 2 (2.667 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 10 2 (2.667 %) Desktop Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.000 %) PDA 2 3 (4.000 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.333 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.333 %) NHS 3 1 (1.333 %) Thin Client 3 1 (1.333 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 35 (46.67 %) Windows XP 2 30 (40.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (9.333 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (9.333 %) Windows Mobile 4 4 (5.333 %) UNIX 5 3 (4.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (4.000 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (2.667 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.333 %) VMS 7 1 (1.333 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (5.333 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (2.667 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.667 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (1.333 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (1.333 %) Load Testing 3 1 (1.333 %) Quality Management 3 1 (1.333 %) Workflow 3 1 (1.333 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.333 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (1.333 %) Web Design 3 1 (1.333 %) Migration 3 1 (1.333 %) Content Management 3 1 (1.333 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (1.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (1.333 %) B2B 3 1 (1.333 %) B2C 3 1 (1.333 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (1.333 %) CRM 3 1 (1.333 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.333 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 8 (10.67 %) VBScript 2 4 (5.333 %) SQL 3 3 (4.000 %) PHP5 3 3 (4.000 %) PHP 4 2 (2.667 %) C 4 2 (2.667 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.333 %) Korn 5 1 (1.333 %) PHP4 5 1 (1.333 %) Shell Script 5 1 (1.333 %) VB 5 1 (1.333 %) C# 5 1 (1.333 %) Java	Qualifications 1 7 (9.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (5.333 %) MCP 3 3 (4.000 %) MCSE 4 2 (2.667 %) CCNP 4 2 (2.667 %) CCNA 4 2 (2.667 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.333 %) Degree 5 1 (1.333 %) Network+ Certification 5 1 (1.333 %) MCDST 5 1 (1.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (1.333 %) A+ Certification 5 1 (1.333 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.333 %) SLA 2 2 (2.667 %) QA 3 1 (1.333 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 29 (38.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (1.333 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 1 (1.333 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 2 (2.667 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.333 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 31 (41.33 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.333 %) HP 2 4 (5.333 %) Dell 3 3 (4.000 %) Citrix 3 3 (4.000 %) Lotus 3 3 (4.000 %) Cisco 4 2 (2.667 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.667 %) SAP 4 2 (2.667 %) Sun 4 2 (2.667 %) 3Com 4 2 (2.667 %) Zend 5 1 (1.333 %) VMware 5 1 (1.333 %) BEA 5 1 (1.333 %) IBM