The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 24 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 Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 36 39 32
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 4 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.333% 0.826% 1.577%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.692% 5.455% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £140 £298 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.94% +22.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £205 £219
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.54% +69.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £14.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +7.69%
All Operating Systems
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
52 55 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 17.33% 15.15% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 29
Average daily rate £375 £348 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.91% -18.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £191 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -52.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.10 £12.42 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £22.00 £34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows XP
Wiltshire

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Windows XP Daily Rate Trend

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 Swindon region.

Swindon Windows XP Hourly Rate Trend

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) MS Office
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
5 1 (16.67%) PDA
5 1 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
5 1 (16.67%) VPN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) VB
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) VBA
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Compaq
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (16.67%) Symantec

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) VB Developer
2 1 (16.67%) VBA Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Deskside Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Service Management
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
1 1 (16.67%) VBA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Compaq
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec