Windows Contracts in Tyne and Wear
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Rank 15 6 6
Rank change year-on-year
-9 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 14 45 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 7.735% 13.39% 14.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.15% 58.44% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 14
Average daily rate £183 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.06% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £149 £250 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £365 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.23% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
Average hourly rate £11.63 £19.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.81% +46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.20 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.78 £20.00 £15.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 41 77 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 22.65% 22.92% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 40
Average daily rate £263 £270 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £232 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
Average hourly rate £13.25 £19.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.26% +46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.20 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £190.00 £16.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
North East

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tyne and Wear Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 12 £183 -40.65%
Gateshead +4 1 - -
Sunderland -2 1 - -
Windows
North East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (30.43%) Windows 7
3 11 (23.91%) MS Office
3 11 (23.91%) ITIL
4 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (19.57%) HP
5 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (17.39%) Cisco
6 8 (17.39%) Service Management
6 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
7 7 (15.22%) SLA
8 6 (13.04%) Clustering
9 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
9 5 (10.87%) Migration
9 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
9 5 (10.87%) SAN
9 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
9 5 (10.87%) Windows XP
9 5 (10.87%) MS Exchange
9 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
10 4 (8.696%) Linux
10 4 (8.696%) VPN
10 4 (8.696%) IIS
10 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
10 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
10 4 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 2 (4.348%) Middleware
1 2 (4.348%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.174%) GWT
2 1 (2.174%) .NET
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.174%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.696%) IIS
3 2 (4.348%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.174%) ESB
4 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.174%) Apache
4 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) MS Office
2 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
3 2 (4.348%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) SAN
2 4 (8.696%) VPN
3 3 (6.522%) DNS
4 2 (4.348%) LDAP
4 2 (4.348%) SMTP
4 2 (4.348%) DHCP
4 2 (4.348%) FTP
4 2 (4.348%) SNMP
5 1 (2.174%) Firewall
5 1 (2.174%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.174%) LAN
5 1 (2.174%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) MS Access
3 1 (2.174%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (2.174%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MSI
1 1 (2.174%) PhoneGap
General
1 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.348%) Banking
3 1 (2.174%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) Service Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) Service Desk Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Administrator
4 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.522%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.522%) Rollout Engineer
6 3 (6.522%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (6.522%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.522%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Support
7 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Server Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Administrator
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Support Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Clustering
2 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.174%) Handset
3 1 (2.174%) PACS
3 1 (2.174%) iPhone
3 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.174%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.174%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows 7
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (10.87%) Windows XP
5 4 (8.696%) Linux
6 3 (6.522%) UNIX
7 2 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.174%) Android
8 1 (2.174%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) ITIL
2 8 (17.39%) Service Management
2 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
4 5 (10.87%) Migration
4 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
4 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
4 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
4 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
4 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
5 3 (6.522%) Project Management
5 3 (6.522%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.348%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.348%) ITSM
7 1 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.174%) Process Management
7 1 (2.174%) TDD
7 1 (2.174%) Dimensional Modelling
7 1 (2.174%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.174%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.348%) SQL
2 1 (2.174%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.522%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (6.522%) MCP
2 2 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.348%) A+ Certification
2 2 (4.348%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.174%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.522%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.348%) SRDF
5 1 (2.174%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.174%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (6.522%) SCCM
1 3 (6.522%) SCOM
1 3 (6.522%) WSUS
2 1 (2.174%) DameWare
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) HP
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
4 4 (8.696%) VMware
5 3 (6.522%) Dell
5 3 (6.522%) Citrix
6 2 (4.348%) RightFax
6 2 (4.348%) Oracle
6 2 (4.348%) Novell
6 2 (4.348%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.348%) McAfee
7 1 (2.174%) TippingPoint
7 1 (2.174%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.174%) Brocade
7 1 (2.174%) Juniper
7 1 (2.174%) Business Objects
7 1 (2.174%) SAP
7 1 (2.174%) JBoss
Service Desk Analyst
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
We require a minimum standard of technical knowledge and common hardware troubleshooting including PC's, Laptops, Printers and Microsoft Applications... For this role you will need previous experience...
Connectus
Rate: £9 - £11 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Technical Systems Administrator
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
It would also be beneficial to have experience of IIS, WSUS, SCOM, Hyper-V, Cisco, HP Proliant, HP blade range of servers and Cisco. The role will require...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 20 May 2013
Windows and SAN Administrator
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Windows and SAN AdministratorNewcastle upon TyneI have an exciting contracting opportunity for a global organisation with offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, responsible for the resolution of Windows / SAN...
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day + On-call allowance
Posted: 25 April 2013
Windows and SAN Administrator
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Windows and SAN AdministratorNewcastle upon TyneI have an exciting contracting opportunity for a global organisation with offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, responsible for the resolution of Windows / SAN...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per annum + On-call allowance
Posted: 22 May 2013
Application Migration Lead
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
It would also be beneficial to have experience in working with 3rd party offsite packaging resources and knowledge of CAD applications. The role will involve managing all application...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 16 May 2013
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