The first table below looks at the demand for Windows NT skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows NT 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.

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 NT
Rank 472 475 380
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -95
Contract jobs citing Windows NT 57 109 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.123% 0.187% 0.346%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.569% 0.923% 1.658%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 110
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £134 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £190 £338
% change year-on-year
+56.71% -43.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 18
Average hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +96.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.80 £13.85 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £41.60 £21.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £27.00 £14.25
% change year-on-year
-40.74% +89.47%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1187 1248
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

Windows NT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windows NT Jobs Demand Trend

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows NT within the UK.

Windows NT Daily Rate Trend

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows NT Daily Rate Histogram

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows NT within the UK.

Windows NT Hourly Rate Trend

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows NT Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows NT
Top 28 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -13 49 £366 +22.08%
London +27 26 £380 +8.57%
South East -31 12 £343 +98.55%
Hampshire -7 5 £370 -
North West +17 4 - -
East Midlands -1 4 - -
Scotland -5 4 - -
Milton Keynes -9 3 - -
Buckinghamshire -11 3 - -
East Kilbride - 3 - -
Cheshire - 3 - -
Chester - 3 - -
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
City of London +9 2 £363 -3.33%
West Midlands +8 2 - -
Portsmouth +1 2 £370 -
Surrey -5 2 £140 -3.44%
Docklands, London - 2 £313 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
Doncaster +1 1 - -
South Yorkshire +1 1 - -
Yorkshire 0 1 - -
Kent -2 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Preston - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Havant - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Windows NT 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 NT.

1 125 (100.00%) Windows
2 72 (57.60%) Microsoft
3 70 (56.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 62 (49.60%) Citrix
5 60 (48.00%) Windows 2000
6 52 (41.60%) Windows XP
7 44 (35.20%) Active Directory
8 42 (33.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 41 (32.80%) VMware
10 37 (29.60%) MS Excel
11 36 (28.80%) SAN
12 34 (27.20%) HP
13 33 (26.40%) Oracle
14 32 (25.60%) UNIX
15 31 (24.80%) .NET
15 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
16 30 (24.00%) MS Exchange
17 29 (23.20%) SQL Server
17 29 (23.20%) ITIL
17 29 (23.20%) MS Office
17 29 (23.20%) SCOM
18 28 (22.40%) SC Cleared
18 28 (22.40%) Clustering
19 26 (20.80%) Incident Management
19 26 (20.80%) TCP/IP
19 26 (20.80%) VMware Infrastructure
19 26 (20.80%) NAS
20 25 (20.00%) IBM
21 24 (19.20%) SQL
22 23 (18.40%) VPN

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Windows NT 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 NT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (24.80%) .NET
2 17 (13.60%) ASP.NET
3 16 (12.80%) Web Services
4 15 (12.00%) ADSI
5 13 (10.40%) Middleware
6 3 (2.400%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.600%) XML
7 2 (1.600%) HTML
8 1 (0.800%) J2EE
8 1 (0.800%) CSS
8 1 (0.800%) ADO.NET
8 1 (0.800%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 30 (24.00%) MS Exchange
2 19 (15.20%) IIS
3 15 (12.00%) Apache
4 11 (8.800%) Oracle Application Server
5 10 (8.000%) Rendezvous
5 10 (8.000%) MQSeries
6 5 (4.000%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (3.200%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (3.200%) Lotus Notes
7 4 (3.200%) SharePoint
8 3 (2.400%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (2.400%) ESB
8 3 (2.400%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (2.400%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (2.400%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 2 (1.600%) CICS
10 1 (0.800%) Exchange Server 5.5
10 1 (0.800%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 37 (29.60%) MS Excel
2 29 (23.20%) MS Office
3 5 (4.000%) SPSS
4 1 (0.800%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (7.200%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.80%) SAN
2 26 (20.80%) TCP/IP
2 26 (20.80%) NAS
3 23 (18.40%) VPN
4 22 (17.60%) Internet
5 19 (15.20%) WAN
5 19 (15.20%) LAN
6 15 (12.00%) Firewall
6 15 (12.00%) FTP
7 13 (10.40%) DNS
8 10 (8.000%) DHCP
9 7 (5.600%) BIG-IP
10 6 (4.800%) Ethernet
11 5 (4.000%) Broadband
12 3 (2.400%) NetScaler
13 2 (1.600%) Intranet
13 2 (1.600%) SSL
13 2 (1.600%) WLAN
14 1 (0.800%) PBX
14 1 (0.800%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.20%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.200%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (7.200%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (4.800%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (3.200%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (3.200%) SQL Server 7
5 4 (3.200%) DB2
6 3 (2.400%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.600%) MySQL
8 1 (0.800%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.800%) MS Access
8 1 (0.800%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (4.000%) MSI
1 5 (4.000%) InstallShield
2 4 (3.200%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.400%) ClearCase
3 3 (2.400%) WinRunner
3 3 (2.400%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (2.400%) LoadRunner
3 3 (2.400%) Subversion
3 3 (2.400%) Bugzilla
3 3 (2.400%) Selenium
3 3 (2.400%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (0.800%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.800%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.800%) JIRA
4 1 (0.800%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.800%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 9 (7.200%) Finance
2 2 (1.600%) Spanish Language
2 2 (1.600%) Telecoms
2 2 (1.600%) Banking
3 1 (0.800%) Electronics
3 1 (0.800%) Aerospace
3 1 (0.800%) Law
3 1 (0.800%) Legal
3 1 (0.800%) Manufacturing
3 1 (0.800%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) Analyst
2 23 (18.40%) Wintel Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Support Analyst
4 16 (12.80%) Help Desk Support
5 12 (9.600%) Administrator
6 11 (8.800%) Service Analyst
6 11 (8.800%) Help Desk Analyst
7 10 (8.000%) IT Support
8 8 (6.400%) Service Desk Analyst
8 8 (6.400%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (5.600%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.600%) Desktop Support
10 6 (4.800%) Wintel Analyst
10 6 (4.800%) Windows Administrator
10 6 (4.800%) Solutions Analyst
10 6 (4.800%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.800%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.800%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.000%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.200%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.40%) Clustering
2 14 (11.20%) Statistics
3 10 (8.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.600%) Blackberry
5 6 (4.800%) NHS
6 4 (3.200%) Computer Science
6 4 (3.200%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.400%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.400%) Cryptography
7 3 (2.400%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.600%) AS400
8 2 (1.600%) Firmware
9 1 (0.800%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.800%) PDA
9 1 (0.800%) FMCG
9 1 (0.800%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.800%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.800%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 125 (100.00%) Windows
2 70 (56.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 60 (48.00%) Windows 2000
4 52 (41.60%) Windows XP
5 42 (33.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 32 (25.60%) UNIX
7 23 (18.40%) Windows 7
8 13 (10.40%) Windows 2000 Server
9 12 (9.600%) Linux
10 9 (7.200%) Windows Vista
11 7 (5.600%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (4.000%) Solaris
13 4 (3.200%) AIX
14 3 (2.400%) HPUX
14 3 (2.400%) zOS
14 3 (2.400%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.800%) NetWare
15 1 (0.800%) MVS
15 1 (0.800%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) ITIL
2 26 (20.80%) Incident Management
3 14 (11.20%) Migration
4 10 (8.000%) Release Management
4 10 (8.000%) Algorithmic Trading
5 9 (7.200%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (7.200%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (7.200%) Service Management
6 6 (4.800%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (4.000%) Service Delivery
8 4 (3.200%) ITSM
9 3 (2.400%) EAI
9 3 (2.400%) SOA
9 3 (2.400%) Configuration Management
9 3 (2.400%) Change Management
9 3 (2.400%) Problem Management
9 3 (2.400%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (2.400%) Software Distribution
10 2 (1.600%) Time Management
10 2 (1.600%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.20%) SQL
2 14 (11.20%) Java
2 14 (11.20%) C
3 12 (9.600%) VB
4 11 (8.800%) C#
4 11 (8.800%) C++
5 10 (8.000%) VBScript
6 6 (4.800%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.600%) VB6
8 1 (0.800%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.800%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (13.60%) MCSE
5 16 (12.80%) DV Cleared
6 13 (10.40%) Degree
7 4 (3.200%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.400%) IBM Certification
8 3 (2.400%) CCA
8 3 (2.400%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (2.400%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.400%) ISEB
8 3 (2.400%) ISEB Practitioner
8 3 (2.400%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.600%) MCITP
9 2 (1.600%) CCNP
9 2 (1.600%) MCP
10 1 (0.800%) MCAD
10 1 (0.800%) CCNA
10 1 (0.800%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) SLA
2 13 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.40%) ISO 9000
3 3 (2.400%) QA
System Software
1 44 (35.20%) Active Directory
2 26 (20.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (18.40%) VMware ESX
4 19 (15.20%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 19 (15.20%) XenApp
5 17 (13.60%) vSphere
6 7 (5.600%) ProxySG
6 7 (5.600%) Hyper-V
7 5 (4.000%) Terminal Services
7 5 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (3.200%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.200%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (3.200%) ISA Server
9 3 (2.400%) XenServer
9 3 (2.400%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.800%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.800%) Samba
10 1 (0.800%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (23.20%) SCOM
2 16 (12.80%) NetBackup
3 15 (12.00%) Backup Exec
3 15 (12.00%) Legato
4 12 (9.600%) SCCM
5 8 (6.400%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (5.600%) Unicenter
7 4 (3.200%) BladeLogic
7 4 (3.200%) Tivoli
8 3 (2.400%) OpenView
8 3 (2.400%) MOM
9 1 (0.800%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.800%) MAINVIEW
9 1 (0.800%) Control-M
9 1 (0.800%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 72 (57.60%) Microsoft
2 62 (49.60%) Citrix
3 41 (32.80%) VMware
4 34 (27.20%) HP
5 33 (26.40%) Oracle
6 25 (20.00%) IBM
7 19 (15.20%) Dell
8 18 (14.40%) McAfee
9 16 (12.80%) Veritas
10 15 (12.00%) Sophos
10 15 (12.00%) BMC
10 15 (12.00%) PlateSpin
10 15 (12.00%) Leostream
11 11 (8.800%) Red Hat
12 10 (8.000%) TIBCO
12 10 (8.000%) Reuters
12 10 (8.000%) Bloomberg
13 8 (6.400%) Intel
14 7 (5.600%) CA
14 7 (5.600%) Blue Coat