Surrey WINS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WINS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Grays Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thurrock Tipton UK Wakefield West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	90
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	22	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	6.471 %	3.563 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£514	£312
Average daily rate	£542	£337
% change on same period last year	+60.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£571	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£343
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.30	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-25.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.30	£27.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.90	£25.57
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	340	421
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.448 %	0.447 %
Daily rates quoted	82	95
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£320
Average daily rate	£299	£334
% change on same period last year	-10.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.94	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£24.24	£25.98
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.54	£26.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
WINS South East

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.

WINS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WINS across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WINS
Daily Rate Trend

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

WINS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

WINS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WINS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

WINS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WINS within the Surrey 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
Guildford	+7	4	£264	-

WINS South East

WINS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing WINS 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 WINS.

1 24 (80.00 %) DNS 2 18 (60.00 %) Finance 3 15 (50.00 %) Windows 4 13 (43.33 %) TCP/IP 4 13 (43.33 %) Active Directory 5 11 (36.67 %) DHCP 5 11 (36.67 %) VBScript 5 11 (36.67 %) Windows XP 5 11 (36.67 %) Microsoft 6 10 (33.33 %) MSI 6 10 (33.33 %) InstallShield 6 10 (33.33 %) Firewall 6 10 (33.33 %) VB 6 10 (33.33 %) SQL 7 9 (30.00 %) Cisco

7 9 (30.00 %) Citrix 7 9 (30.00 %) CheckPoint 7 9 (30.00 %) ADSL 7 9 (30.00 %) LAN 7 9 (30.00 %) WAN 8 8 (26.67 %) Insurance 9 7 (23.33 %) MCSE 9 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft Certification 10 6 (20.00 %) Six Sigma 11 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 12 2 (6.667 %) HTTP 12 2 (6.667 %) SMTP 12 2 (6.667 %) MS Exchange 12 2 (6.667 %) MS Excel 12 2 (6.667 %) Altiris

WINS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing WINS 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 WINS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.333 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (3.333 %) IIS 2 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 24 (80.00 %) DNS 2 13 (43.33 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (36.67 %) DHCP 4 10 (33.33 %) Firewall 5 9 (30.00 %) ADSL 5 9 (30.00 %) LAN 5 9 (30.00 %) WAN 6 2 (6.667 %) SMTP 6 2 (6.667 %) HTTP 7 1 (3.333 %) SNMP 7 1 (3.333 %) FTP 7 1 (3.333 %) LDAP 7 1 (3.333 %) SAN
Development Applications 1 10 (33.33 %) MSI 1 10 (33.33 %) InstallShield	General 1 18 (60.00 %) Finance 2 8 (26.67 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.333 %) Back Office 3 1 (3.333 %) Education 3 1 (3.333 %) Banking 3 1 (3.333 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 9 (30.00 %) 2nd Line Support 2 8 (26.67 %) 3rd Line Support 2 8 (26.67 %) Network Support 3 6 (20.00 %) Consultant 3 6 (20.00 %) Six Sigma Consultant 4 5 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 5 (16.67 %) Process Consultant 5 3 (10.00 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (6.667 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Architect 7 1 (3.333 %) Systems Administrator 7 1 (3.333 %) Systems Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Applications Packager 7 1 (3.333 %) Network Support Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Support Engineer 7 1 (3.333 %) Technical Designer 7 1 (3.333 %) Service Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.333 %) Network Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 15 (50.00 %) Windows 2 11 (36.67 %) Windows XP 3 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.00 %) Six Sigma 2 2 (6.667 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (3.333 %) Lean Six Sigma 3 1 (3.333 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 11 (36.67 %) VBScript 2 10 (33.33 %) VB 2 10 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (23.33 %) MCSE 1 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 13 (43.33 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) MOM 1 1 (3.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 11 (36.67 %) Microsoft 2 9 (30.00 %) Citrix 2 9 (30.00 %) CheckPoint 2 9 (30.00 %) Cisco 3 2 (6.667 %) Altiris 4 1 (3.333 %) NetIQ