Stevenage Windows Vista Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista skills within the Stevenage 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenock Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverclyde Inverness Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook London Loughborough Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Skipton Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	13
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	6.250 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£320
% change on same period last year	-9.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.45	£24.26
% change on same period last year	-36.32 %
Operating Systems Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	16	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£275
Average daily rate	£389	£325
% change on same period last year	+19.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£28.90
Average hourly rate	£32.25	£29.47
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.60	£30.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Windows Vista Hertfordshire

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 Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 Stevenage region.

Windows Vista
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) CCEA 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) MOM 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Softricity 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003

3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) C

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) CCEA 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Softricity 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco