Suffolk Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Keighley Kenilworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	1
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	21	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	47.73 %	54.12 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£306
Average daily rate	£313	£319
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.79	£16.98
Average hourly rate	£15.96	£17.80
% change on same period last year	-10.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.12	£18.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.47	£20.66
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Operating Systems Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	44	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	7	19
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£269
Average daily rate	£326	£286
% change on same period last year	+14.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.27	£20.58
Average hourly rate	£21.29	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	£22.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows East of 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
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Suffolk region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Ipswich	-8	10	£313	-9.60 %
Bury St Edmunds	-2	4	-	-

Windows East of England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 32 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 31 (43.06 %) Windows 2000 3 22 (30.56 %) MS Office 4 20 (27.78 %) Cisco 5 19 (26.39 %) Windows NT 6 17 (23.61 %) Active Directory 6 17 (23.61 %) HP 6 17 (23.61 %) Firewall 7 15 (20.83 %) Unix 7 15 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 8 13 (18.06 %) LAN 8 13 (18.06 %) C 8 13 (18.06 %) Dell 9 12 (16.67 %) SQL Server 9 12 (16.67 %) ISDN

10 11 (15.28 %) TCP/IP 10 11 (15.28 %) C++ 10 11 (15.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 10 (13.89 %) SQL 11 10 (13.89 %) VoIP 11 10 (13.89 %) WAN 11 10 (13.89 %) ADSL 12 9 (12.50 %) McAfee Security 12 9 (12.50 %) Windows XP 12 9 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 8 (11.11 %) VPN 13 8 (11.11 %) Linux 13 8 (11.11 %) Oracle 13 8 (11.11 %) XML 13 8 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 8 (11.11 %) XML 2 7 (9.722 %) HTML 3 2 (2.778 %) .NET 3 2 (2.778 %) ActiveX 3 2 (2.778 %) LAMP 3 2 (2.778 %) MFC 3 2 (2.778 %) ASP 4 1 (1.389 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.389 %) EJB 4 1 (1.389 %) JSP 4 1 (1.389 %) Servlets 4 1 (1.389 %) Struts 4 1 (1.389 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.389 %) Hibernate 4 1 (1.389 %) WinForms 4 1 (1.389 %) Spring 4 1 (1.389 %) JSF 4 1 (1.389 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.389 %) OpenGL 4 1 (1.389 %) DirectX	Application Platforms 1 15 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (15.28 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 5 (6.944 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 5 (6.944 %) IIS 5 2 (2.778 %) SharePoint 5 2 (2.778 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (2.778 %) Office Project Server 6 1 (1.389 %) Jetty 6 1 (1.389 %) Resin 6 1 (1.389 %) Apache 6 1 (1.389 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.389 %) JRun 6 1 (1.389 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.389 %) JBoss
Applications 1 22 (30.56 %) MS Office 2 7 (9.722 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.778 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 17 (23.61 %) Firewall 2 13 (18.06 %) LAN 3 12 (16.67 %) ISDN 4 11 (15.28 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (13.89 %) ADSL 5 10 (13.89 %) VoIP 5 10 (13.89 %) WAN 6 8 (11.11 %) VPN 7 7 (9.722 %) Intrusion Detection 8 5 (6.944 %) Cisco IOS 8 5 (6.944 %) DNS 8 5 (6.944 %) Network Security 9 4 (5.556 %) SAN 10 3 (4.167 %) DHCP 11 2 (2.778 %) PBX 11 2 (2.778 %) PSTN 11 2 (2.778 %) Cisco PIX 11 2 (2.778 %) Cisco IPT 12 1 (1.389 %) WINS 12 1 (1.389 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 6 (8.333 %) DB2 2 6 (8.333 %) MySQL 3 5 (6.944 %) PostgreSQL 3 5 (6.944 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (1.389 %) Ant	General 1 4 (5.556 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.778 %) Electric 2 2 (2.778 %) Advertising 2 2 (2.778 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.389 %) Music 3 1 (1.389 %) Mobile Games 3 1 (1.389 %) Games 3 1 (1.389 %) Government 3 1 (1.389 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 15 (20.83 %) Support Engineer 2 10 (13.89 %) Network Support Engineer 2 10 (13.89 %) Network Engineer 2 10 (13.89 %) Network Support 3 9 (12.50 %) Developer 4 8 (11.11 %) Desktop Support 5 7 (9.722 %) Consultant 5 7 (9.722 %) Administrator 6 6 (8.333 %) Analyst 7 5 (6.944 %) Network Designer 8 4 (5.556 %) Project Manager 8 4 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 4 (5.556 %) Systems Manager 8 4 (5.556 %) Server Administrator 8 4 (5.556 %) Desktop Engineer 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Support Engineer 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Network Support 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 9 3 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.778 %) Client/Server 1 2 (2.778 %) Blackberry 1 2 (2.778 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.389 %) PDA 2 1 (1.389 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 31 (43.06 %) Windows 2000 2 19 (26.39 %) Windows NT 3 15 (20.83 %) Unix 4 9 (12.50 %) Windows XP 5 8 (11.11 %) Linux 6 6 (8.333 %) Solaris 7 5 (6.944 %) HPUX 8 2 (2.778 %) NetWare 8 2 (2.778 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (6.944 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (5.556 %) PRINCE 3 3 (4.167 %) UML 3 3 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (2.778 %) ITIL 4 2 (2.778 %) Time Management 4 2 (2.778 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (2.778 %) CAD 4 2 (2.778 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.389 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.389 %) Programme Management 5 1 (1.389 %) Penetration Testing 5 1 (1.389 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (1.389 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.389 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 13 (18.06 %) C 2 11 (15.28 %) C++ 3 10 (13.89 %) SQL 4 7 (9.722 %) Perl 5 6 (8.333 %) PHP 5 6 (8.333 %) JavaScript 5 6 (8.333 %) Python 6 5 (6.944 %) DHTML 6 5 (6.944 %) C# 7 3 (4.167 %) Java 7 3 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (2.778 %) Ruby 8 2 (2.778 %) Assembly Language 8 2 (2.778 %) Tcl 9 1 (1.389 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 8 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (8.333 %) MCSE 3 4 (5.556 %) MCP 4 2 (2.778 %) HNC 4 2 (2.778 %) HND 4 2 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (2.778 %) CCNA 4 2 (2.778 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.389 %) CCDA 5 1 (1.389 %) PMP 5 1 (1.389 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (1.389 %) CCVP 5 1 (1.389 %) MCSA
System Software 1 17 (23.61 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.167 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (2.778 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.389 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 7 (9.722 %) OpenView 1 7 (9.722 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.778 %) WSUS 3 1 (1.389 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (1.389 %) MOM
Vendors 1 32 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 20 (27.78 %) Cisco 3 17 (23.61 %) HP 4 13 (18.06 %) Dell 5 9 (12.50 %) McAfee Security 6 8 (11.11 %) Oracle 7 7 (9.722 %) 3Com 8 5 (6.944 %) Symantec 8 5 (6.944 %) Sybase 8 5 (6.944 %) IBM 8 5 (6.944 %) Intel 8 5 (6.944 %) Alcatel 8 5 (6.944 %) Siemens 9 3 (4.167 %) EMC 9 3 (4.167 %) VMware 10 2 (2.778 %) Sophos 10 2 (2.778 %) BT 10 2 (2.778 %) Novell 10 2 (2.778 %) VERITAS 10 2 (2.778 %) Lotus