Stoke-on-Trent Windows XP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the Stoke-on-Trent 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Banbury Banstead Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bathgate Beccles Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenock Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverurie Ipswich Isleworth Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	0.000 %
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	£222	£262
% change on same period last year	-15.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.93	£16.48
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Operating Systems Stoke-on-Trent
Matching contract IT job ads	13	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£360	-
Average daily rate	£379	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£398	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Windows XP Staffordshire

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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Windows XP
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) WAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Field Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Dell 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus