The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Surrey region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 38 27 38
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 42 86 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 3.630% 5.225% 3.840%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.85% 20.28% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 15
Average daily rate £250 £160 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -41.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £104 £139
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £328 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £210 £225
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 15
Average hourly rate £14.50 £16.25 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +20.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.33 £10.00 £8.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.80 £18.60 £21.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +12.00%
All Operating Systems
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
265 424 459
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 22.90% 25.76% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 174 179
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £135 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 81 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +1.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £43.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows XP
South East

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Surrey Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows XP across the Surrey region.

Surrey Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Windows XP Daily Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the Surrey region.

Surrey Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Windows XP Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows XP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Guildford -10 5 £398 +281.29%
Redhill +7 4 - -
Weybridge +1 3 - -
Reigate +5 2 - -
Woking +3 2 £183 -
Camberley -5 2 - -
Dorking - 2 - -
Horley - 2 - -
Staines - 2 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Tadworth - 1 - -
Epsom - 1 - -
Windows XP
South East

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 61 (64.89%) Active Directory
3 58 (61.70%) Microsoft
4 56 (59.57%) Windows 7
5 41 (43.62%) MS Office
6 31 (32.98%) MS Exchange
7 24 (25.53%) TCP/IP
8 23 (24.47%) DNS
8 23 (24.47%) DHCP
9 21 (22.34%) SCCM
10 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (18.09%) MSI
11 17 (18.09%) Microsoft App-V
12 16 (17.02%) InstallShield
13 14 (14.89%) Windows Server 2003
13 14 (14.89%) MS Excel
13 14 (14.89%) Windows Vista
14 12 (12.77%) Exchange Server 2007
14 12 (12.77%) VMware
15 11 (11.70%) HP
15 11 (11.70%) VPN
15 11 (11.70%) Exchange Server 2003
16 10 (10.64%) Dell
16 10 (10.64%) Citrix
16 10 (10.64%) MCP
16 10 (10.64%) Cisco
17 9 (9.574%) Blackberry
18 8 (8.511%) Symantec
18 8 (8.511%) ITIL
18 8 (8.511%) MCSE

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Development
1 2 (2.128%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.064%) HTML
2 1 (1.064%) .NET
2 1 (1.064%) CSS
2 1 (1.064%) X-Windows
2 1 (1.064%) HTML5
2 1 (1.064%) CSS3
2 1 (1.064%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 31 (32.98%) MS Exchange
2 12 (12.77%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (11.70%) Exchange Server 2003
4 8 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (7.447%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 5 (5.319%) SharePoint
7 4 (4.255%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (3.191%) Apache
9 1 (1.064%) TeamSite
9 1 (1.064%) CMS
9 1 (1.064%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (1.064%) Drupal
Applications
1 41 (43.62%) MS Office
2 14 (14.89%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.064%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (1.064%) 3000 Xtra
1 1 (1.064%) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.53%) TCP/IP
2 23 (24.47%) DNS
2 23 (24.47%) DHCP
3 11 (11.70%) VPN
4 6 (6.383%) LAN
4 6 (6.383%) WAN
5 5 (5.319%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (5.319%) Firewall
6 4 (4.255%) Internet
7 3 (3.191%) FTP
7 3 (3.191%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.191%) NetScreen
7 3 (3.191%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (2.128%) IPsec
8 2 (2.128%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.064%) SAN
9 1 (1.064%) NAS
9 1 (1.064%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.128%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.064%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.064%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.064%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) MSI
2 16 (17.02%) InstallShield
General
1 6 (6.383%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.319%) Finance
3 3 (3.191%) Advertising
3 3 (3.191%) Publishing
4 1 (1.064%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Analyst
2 21 (22.34%) Support Engineer
3 17 (18.09%) Applications Packager
3 17 (18.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Desktop Support
4 14 (14.89%) Support Analyst
5 12 (12.77%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (11.70%) IT Support
7 10 (10.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 9 (9.574%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (6.383%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (5.319%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (5.319%) Server Engineer
10 5 (5.319%) Service Analyst
10 5 (5.319%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
11 4 (4.255%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 4 (4.255%) Help Desk Analyst
12 3 (3.191%) Service Desk Analyst
12 3 (3.191%) Server Support Engineer
12 3 (3.191%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.574%) Blackberry
2 2 (2.128%) iPhone
2 2 (2.128%) NHS
3 1 (1.064%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.064%) Social Media
3 1 (1.064%) iPad
3 1 (1.064%) CMDB
3 1 (1.064%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 56 (59.57%) Windows 7
3 14 (14.89%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (14.89%) Windows Vista
4 8 (8.511%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.255%) Windows 2000 Server
5 4 (4.255%) Mac OS X
6 3 (3.191%) Solaris
6 3 (3.191%) Linux
6 3 (3.191%) UNIX
6 3 (3.191%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.128%) Windows 2000
7 2 (2.128%) AIX
7 2 (2.128%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (8.511%) ITIL
2 6 (6.383%) Migration
3 5 (5.319%) Time Management
4 3 (3.191%) Configuration Management
4 3 (3.191%) Service Management
4 3 (3.191%) Incident Management
5 2 (2.128%) Data Migration
5 2 (2.128%) ITSM
6 1 (1.064%) Workflow Management
6 1 (1.064%) Project Management
6 1 (1.064%) Workflow
6 1 (1.064%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.064%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.319%) SQL
2 3 (3.191%) Java
2 3 (3.191%) VB
3 2 (2.128%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.128%) C
3 2 (2.128%) C++
3 2 (2.128%) Perl
3 2 (2.128%) PHP
3 2 (2.128%) Python
4 1 (1.064%) VBScript
4 1 (1.064%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (10.64%) MCP
3 8 (8.511%) MCSE
4 4 (4.255%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.191%) MCSA
5 3 (3.191%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.128%) MCDST
6 2 (2.128%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.064%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.064%) CCNA
7 1 (1.064%) MCTS
7 1 (1.064%) MCITP
7 1 (1.064%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.191%) SLA
2 2 (2.128%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 61 (64.89%) Active Directory
2 17 (18.09%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (4.255%) XenApp
4 3 (3.191%) Sendmail
5 2 (2.128%) vSphere
5 2 (2.128%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.064%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.064%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.064%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) SCCM
2 4 (4.255%) Norton AntiVirus
2 4 (4.255%) Backup Exec
3 3 (3.191%) Sysprep
4 2 (2.128%) Unicenter
5 1 (1.064%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (61.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) VMware
3 11 (11.70%) HP
4 10 (10.64%) Dell
4 10 (10.64%) Citrix
4 10 (10.64%) Cisco
5 8 (8.511%) Symantec
6 7 (7.447%) McAfee
7 5 (5.319%) Oracle
8 4 (4.255%) Apple
8 4 (4.255%) Lotus
9 3 (3.191%) Juniper
9 3 (3.191%) Adobe
9 3 (3.191%) Sun
9 3 (3.191%) Intel
9 3 (3.191%) Altiris
9 3 (3.191%) Blue Coat
9 3 (3.191%) Twitter
10 2 (2.128%) FrontRange
10 2 (2.128%) CheckPoint
Camberley, Surrey
Austin Fraser are looking for a Desktop Technician to join our client based in Camberley. The Desktop Technician will be responsible for providing both 1st and 2nd line...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £17 - £18 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Surrey, South East
The ideal candidate would have experience in Healthcare, preferably supporting Cerner Millennium but not essential, experience with any other NHS application is essential. Technical skills required Microsoft Office,...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £120 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
The Server Engineer will also be working with the current WSUS implementation and making sure all clients have XP SP3 deployed for upcoming projects... Windows Server 2003/2008...
ComputAppoint
Rate: market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
A strong grounding in IT Support is a must with previous experience in a desktop support engineer role and exceptional Microsoft skills are essential as you will be...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £16 to £18 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced IT Desktop Support Engineer to join a leading organisation on a project based role. The position will be working...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Epsom, Surrey
The successful candidate will demonstrate the advanced level knowledge of the following:- MS Office. Windows XP. Lotus Notes. Standard Intel-based PC hardware... HP Printers. Dell/Lenovo,Hp...
Canary Wharf and City
Rate: Up to £14.50 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Windows Server Engineer, AD 2003, MS 2003/2008, EV 8,9,10, Microsoft WSUS, XP... Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \ 2008... Microsoft WSUS. Windows XP... MCITP \ MCSE... Experience working...
EarthStream Global
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013