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This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills across the UK with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Windows
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank56
Rank change on same period last yearUp+1
Matching contract IT job ads87499957
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled11.14 %11.25 %
As % of the category below56.42 %50.68 %
Daily rates quoted19852078
Average minimum daily rate£338£349
Average daily rate£357£370
% change on same period last year-3.47 %
Average maximum daily rate£377£392
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£314
% change on same period last year+3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted19291952
Average minimum hourly rate£18.95£19.08
Average hourly rate£20.39£20.26
% change on same period last year+0.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.82£21.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.19£20.36
% change on same period last year-0.85 %
Operating Systems UKOperating Systems
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1550619648
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled19.74 %22.21 %
Daily rates quoted41505038
Average minimum daily rate£360£366
Average daily rate£382£386
% change on same period last year-0.95 %
Average maximum daily rate£404£406
UK excluding London average daily rate£344£332
% change on same period last year+3.66 %
Hourly rates quoted24522533
Average minimum hourly rate£20.66£21.33
Average hourly rate£22.13£22.58
% change on same period last year-1.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.60£23.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.07£23.08
% change on same period last year-4.36 %

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.

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the UK.

Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the UK over the past 3 months.

Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Windows across the UK.

Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the UK over the past 3 months.

Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank 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
1EnglandUp+18269£358-3.94 %
2LondonUp+23490£385-8.10 %
3South EastNo change01992£333-0.58 %
4City of LondonUp+61036£400-5.73 %
5East of EnglandNo change0636£266-12.62 %
6North WestNo change0537£379+45.90 %
7BerkshireNo change0431£356-1.36 %
8YorkshireDown-1406£264+10.39 %
9South WestDown-4394£367+16.63 %
10HampshireDown-1393£327-4.08 %
11West MidlandsDown-1379£315+8.16 %
12BuckinghamshireNo change0302£375+20.64 %
13SurreyUp+1293£309-0.04 %
14ScotlandNo change0289£273-2.59 %
15East MidlandsUp+1260£289-3.62 %
16CambridgeshireNo change0259£284+11.07 %
17West YorkshireDown-1227£272+18.01 %
18Milton KeynesDown-1207£362+28.73 %
19CheshireUp+6205£394+31.23 %
20ManchesterDown-2191£372+56.03 %
21CambridgeUp+2166£288+9.51 %
22LeedsDown-1154£266+16.21 %
23ReadingDown-1144£358+20.56 %
24EssexUp+5141£198-30.70 %
25HertfordshireDown-3138£343+10.09 %
26WalesUp+3126£498+75.15 %
27North EastUp+2124£300+35.43 %
28BirminghamUp+1119£296-8.42 %
29Docklands, LondonNo change0115£400-6.56 %
30OxfordshireDown-1114£222-23.74 %

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

14893 (26.91 %)Microsoft
24833 (26.58 %)Active Directory
33586 (19.72 %)Windows XP
43335 (18.34 %)MS Office
53334 (18.34 %)Windows 2000
62919 (16.05 %)Unix
72655 (14.60 %)SQL
82535 (13.94 %)SQL Server
92295 (12.62 %)Windows Server 2003
102177 (11.97 %).NET
112132 (11.73 %)MS Exchange
121997 (10.98 %)Finance
131872 (10.30 %)C#
141843 (10.14 %)Oracle
151839 (10.11 %)MS Excel
161785 (9.817 %)Citrix
171739 (9.564 %)Exchange Server 2003
181728 (9.504 %)Windows NT
191711 (9.410 %)Linux
201642 (9.031 %)Microsoft Certification
211592 (8.756 %)TCP/IP
221360 (7.480 %)C++
231321 (7.265 %)Banking
241288 (7.084 %)HP
251168 (6.424 %)SAN
261161 (6.385 %)Cisco
271157 (6.363 %)LAN
281143 (6.286 %)MCSE
291095 (6.022 %)Solaris
301075 (5.912 %)XML

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
12177 (11.97 %).NET
21075 (5.912 %)XML
3840 (4.620 %)ASP.NET
4616 (3.388 %)WebServices
5594 (3.267 %)HTML
6509 (2.799 %)WinForms
7378 (2.079 %).NET Framework
8363 (1.996 %)WebSphere
9344 (1.892 %)ASP
10341 (1.875 %)J2EE
11308 (1.694 %)Middleware
12284 (1.562 %)CSS
13242 (1.331 %)XSLT
14182 (1.001 %)AJAX
15169 (0.929 %)MFC
16147 (0.808 %)WCF
17124 (0.682 %)SOAP
18116 (0.638 %)Windows SharePoint Services
19114 (0.627 %)STL
20109 (0.599 %)Spring
Application Platforms
12132 (11.73 %)MS Exchange
21739 (9.564 %)Exchange Server 2003
31015 (5.582 %)IIS
4864 (4.752 %)Exchange Server 2000
5649 (3.569 %)Lotus Notes
6624 (3.432 %)SharePoint
7378 (2.079 %)Exchange Server 2007
8324 (1.782 %)Exchange Server 5.5
9278 (1.529 %)SharePoint Server 2007
10250 (1.375 %)Apache
11201 (1.105 %)WebLogic
12162 (0.891 %)Tomcat
12162 (0.891 %)BizTalk Server
13159 (0.874 %)GroupWise
14127 (0.698 %)WebSphere MQ
15104 (0.572 %)SharePoint Portal Server
16100 (0.550 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1799 (0.544 %)CMS
1897 (0.533 %)WebSphere Application Server
1971 (0.390 %)MQSeries
Applications
13335 (18.34 %)MS Office
21839 (10.11 %)MS Excel
3177 (0.973 %)MS PowerPoint
4165 (0.907 %)MS Project
5120 (0.660 %)MS Visio
665 (0.357 %)Photoshop
746 (0.253 %)Acrobat
828 (0.154 %)AutoCAD
917 (0.093 %)Fireworks
917 (0.093 %)InfoPath
1014 (0.077 %)Quicktime
1111 (0.060 %)DeltaView
129 (0.049 %)RoboHelp
136 (0.033 %)QuarkXPress
145 (0.027 %)Paint Shop Pro
154 (0.022 %)MATLAB
154 (0.022 %)Simulink
154 (0.022 %)CATIA
154 (0.022 %)Adobe Illustrator
162 (0.011 %)Windchill
Business Applications
173 (0.401 %)Summit
253 (0.291 %)RMDS
349 (0.269 %)SoftGrid
429 (0.159 %)Fidessa
429 (0.159 %)assyst
526 (0.143 %)Global One
624 (0.132 %)Oracle Applications
721 (0.115 %)Teamcenter
819 (0.104 %)Remedy AR System
917 (0.093 %)SAP R/3
1016 (0.088 %)Oracle EBS
1016 (0.088 %)Microsoft CRM
1114 (0.077 %)Oracle 11i
1213 (0.071 %)MarketView
1312 (0.066 %)SAP IS-U
1410 (0.055 %)FRONT ARENA
159 (0.049 %)Navision
159 (0.049 %)AWD
159 (0.049 %)GoldMine
168 (0.044 %)Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
11592 (8.756 %)TCP/IP
21168 (6.424 %)SAN
31157 (6.363 %)LAN
41073 (5.901 %)DNS
5970 (5.335 %)WAN
6928 (5.104 %)Firewall
7727 (3.998 %)Internet
8583 (3.206 %)DHCP
9571 (3.140 %)VPN
10411 (2.260 %)WINS
11268 (1.474 %)VoIP
12250 (1.375 %)SMS
13243 (1.336 %)Intranet
14218 (1.199 %)Wireless
15163 (0.896 %)Ethernet
16129 (0.709 %)Network Security
17123 (0.676 %)LDAP
18121 (0.665 %)SMTP
19114 (0.627 %)HTTP
2098 (0.539 %)FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
12535 (13.94 %)SQL Server
2701 (3.855 %)SQL Server 2005
3667 (3.668 %)SQL Server 2000
4329 (1.809 %)Oracle 10g
5216 (1.188 %)RDBMS
6206 (1.133 %)Oracle 8/8i
7195 (1.072 %)Oracle 9i
8185 (1.017 %)SQL Server 7
9176 (0.968 %)MySQL
10143 (0.786 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
11140 (0.770 %)DB2
12131 (0.720 %)Crystal Reports
13128 (0.704 %)MS Access
14113 (0.621 %)Oracle Reports
1599 (0.544 %)BusinessObjects
1680 (0.440 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1777 (0.423 %)Datawarehouse
1873 (0.401 %)DTS
1972 (0.396 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
2071 (0.390 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1432 (2.376 %)Visual Studio
2198 (1.089 %)MSI
3166 (0.913 %)ClearCase
4150 (0.825 %)Ant
5128 (0.704 %)VSS/SourceSafe
6125 (0.687 %)Subversion
7124 (0.682 %)Eclipse
8120 (0.660 %)TestDirector
995 (0.522 %)NUnit
1089 (0.489 %)Flash
1186 (0.473 %)InstallShield
1281 (0.445 %)LoadRunner
1376 (0.418 %)JUnit
1468 (0.374 %)Oracle Forms
1567 (0.368 %)QuickTest Pro
1664 (0.352 %)ClearQuest
1753 (0.291 %)WinRunner
1848 (0.264 %)Rational Rose
1941 (0.225 %)JIRA
2033 (0.181 %)Dreamweaver
General
11997 (10.98 %)Finance
21321 (7.265 %)Banking
3751 (4.130 %)Government
4736 (4.048 %)Investment Banking
5493 (2.711 %)Front Office
6448 (2.464 %)Telecoms
7284 (1.562 %)Legal
8274 (1.507 %)Back Office
9266 (1.463 %)Law
10259 (1.424 %)Insurance
11223 (1.226 %)Health
12159 (0.874 %)Retail
13145 (0.797 %)Financial Institution
14123 (0.676 %)Education
15118 (0.649 %)Manufacturing
1698 (0.539 %)Pharmaceutical
1786 (0.473 %)Marketing
1879 (0.434 %)Electronics
1972 (0.396 %)Publishing
2059 (0.324 %)Military
Job Titles
13844 (21.14 %)Analyst
22731 (15.02 %)Developer
31955 (10.75 %)Support Analyst
41509 (8.299 %)Support Engineer
51325 (7.287 %)Desktop Support
61032 (5.676 %)2nd Line Support
7984 (5.412 %)Administrator
8815 (4.482 %)Consultant
9763 (4.196 %)Helpdesk Analyst
10709 (3.899 %)Helpdesk Support
11654 (3.597 %)C# Developer
12568 (3.124 %)3rd Line Support
13567 (3.118 %)Desktop Engineer
14558 (3.069 %).NET Developer
15504 (2.772 %)1st Line Support
16453 (2.491 %)Software Engineer
17413 (2.271 %)Architect
17413 (2.271 %)Server Support
18408 (2.244 %)Desktop Support Engineer
19403 (2.216 %)Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1614 (3.377 %)Blackberry
2449 (2.469 %)Clustering
3375 (2.062 %)Derivative
4265 (1.457 %)NHS
5256 (1.408 %)Fixed Income
6237 (1.303 %)Client/Server
7221 (1.215 %)Mainframe
8179 (0.984 %)Asset Management
9167 (0.918 %)Replication
10165 (0.907 %)Equity Derivative
11159 (0.874 %)PDA
12144 (0.792 %)Thin Client
12144 (0.792 %)Fat Client
13137 (0.753 %)Equities
14135 (0.742 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15117 (0.643 %)Handset
16115 (0.632 %)AS400
17111 (0.610 %)Multithreading
18106 (0.583 %)Credit Derivative
1991 (0.500 %)Tandem
Operating Systems
13586 (19.72 %)Windows XP
23334 (18.34 %)Windows 2000
32919 (16.05 %)Unix
42295 (12.62 %)Windows Server 2003
51728 (9.504 %)Windows NT
61711 (9.410 %)Linux
71095 (6.022 %)Solaris
8418 (2.299 %)AIX
9279 (1.534 %)HPUX
10246 (1.353 %)Windows Mobile
11224 (1.232 %)NetWare
12174 (0.957 %)Windows Vista
13112 (0.616 %)Mac OS X
13112 (0.616 %)Windows CE
1450 (0.275 %)VMS
1547 (0.258 %)zOS
1635 (0.192 %)SUSE
1734 (0.187 %)MVS
1821 (0.115 %)Tru64
1918 (0.099 %)Symbian OS
Processes & Methodologies
11065 (5.857 %)ITIL
2885 (4.867 %)Migration
3518 (2.849 %)OO
4440 (2.420 %)Project Management
5373 (2.051 %)UML
6352 (1.936 %)PRINCE2
7315 (1.732 %)Disaster Recovery
8290 (1.595 %)Change Management
9279 (1.534 %)Workflow
10272 (1.496 %)Configuration Management
11248 (1.364 %)Service Delivery
12190 (1.045 %)Service Management
13182 (1.001 %)Test Scripting
14171 (0.940 %)User Acceptance Testing
15166 (0.913 %)Agile Software Development
16164 (0.902 %)OOD
17157 (0.863 %)CRM
18147 (0.808 %)Document Management
19144 (0.792 %)Data Migration
20139 (0.764 %)Unit Testing
Programming Languages
12655 (14.60 %)SQL
21872 (10.30 %)C#
31360 (7.480 %)C++
41042 (5.731 %)Java
5757 (4.163 %)VB
6630 (3.465 %)C
7500 (2.750 %)Perl
8481 (2.645 %)VB.NET
9410 (2.255 %)VBScript
10404 (2.222 %)JavaScript
11383 (2.106 %)Shell Script
12314 (1.727 %)PL/SQL
13257 (1.413 %)Transact-SQL
14252 (1.386 %)VC++
15242 (1.331 %)VB6
16206 (1.133 %)VBA
17104 (0.572 %)PHP
1882 (0.451 %)Python
1952 (0.286 %)ActionScript
2051 (0.280 %)Korn
Qualifications
11642 (9.031 %)Microsoft Certification
21143 (6.286 %)MCSE
3544 (2.992 %)MCP
4481 (2.645 %)Degree
5335 (1.842 %)Cisco Certification
6234 (1.287 %)CCNA
7171 (0.940 %)MCSA
8126 (0.693 %)ISEB
9123 (0.676 %)Citrix Certification
10112 (0.616 %)CCNP
1181 (0.445 %)CCA
1279 (0.434 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1370 (0.385 %)ITIL Certification
1464 (0.352 %)Novell Certification
1556 (0.308 %)CNE
1651 (0.280 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1651 (0.280 %)MCDST
1741 (0.225 %)CCEA
1741 (0.225 %)HND
1840 (0.220 %)CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1381 (2.095 %)SLA
2194 (1.067 %)QA
334 (0.187 %)ISO9001
431 (0.170 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
513 (0.071 %)BS7799
610 (0.055 %)ISO17799
78 (0.044 %)ISO9000
78 (0.044 %)MiFID
87 (0.038 %)WAI
96 (0.033 %)PCI DSS
96 (0.033 %)GLP
96 (0.033 %)GxP
96 (0.033 %)TickIT
96 (0.033 %)ISO27001
96 (0.033 %)WCAG
104 (0.022 %)HL7
104 (0.022 %)DICOM
113 (0.016 %)GCP
113 (0.016 %)JSP 440
121 (0.005 %)COBIT
System Software
14833 (26.58 %)Active Directory
2374 (2.057 %)NetBackup
3341 (1.875 %)VMware ESX
4277 (1.523 %)Backup Exec
5241 (1.325 %)Citrix Presentation Server
6151 (0.830 %)Terminal Services
6151 (0.830 %)ISA Server
7129 (0.709 %)MetaFrame
876 (0.418 %)Oracle RAC
973 (0.401 %)Terminal Server
1068 (0.374 %)Oracle RMAN
1164 (0.352 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1250 (0.275 %)NDS
1346 (0.253 %)NFS
1434 (0.187 %)VMware Server
1525 (0.137 %)MSMQ
1624 (0.132 %)VMware Workstation
1723 (0.126 %)Samba
1817 (0.093 %)VMware GSX
1915 (0.082 %)Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1366 (2.013 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
2311 (1.710 %)MOM
3276 (1.518 %)Tivoli
4177 (0.973 %)OpenView
5115 (0.632 %)OpenView Configuration Management
5115 (0.632 %)WSUS
6107 (0.588 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
784 (0.462 %)Legato
882 (0.451 %)Norton AntiVirus
975 (0.412 %)ZENworks
975 (0.412 %)DameWare
1072 (0.396 %)OMEGAMON
1157 (0.313 %)SCCM
1253 (0.291 %)AutoSys
1352 (0.286 %)EMC NetWorker
1448 (0.264 %)CiscoWorks
1547 (0.258 %)CONTROL-M
1645 (0.247 %)EMC TimeFinder
1739 (0.214 %)OVOW
1832 (0.176 %)ARCserve
Vendors
14893 (26.91 %)Microsoft
21843 (10.14 %)Oracle
31785 (9.817 %)Citrix
41288 (7.084 %)HP
51161 (6.385 %)Cisco
61020 (5.610 %)VMware
7690 (3.795 %)Lotus
8535 (2.942 %)IBM
9489 (2.689 %)VERITAS
10479 (2.634 %)Novell
11431 (2.370 %)Sybase
12385 (2.117 %)Dell
13359 (1.974 %)Sun
14350 (1.925 %)EMC
15347 (1.908 %)Remedy
16309 (1.699 %)Red Hat
17267 (1.468 %)Symantec
18254 (1.397 %)Bloomberg
19244 (1.342 %)Reuters
20220 (1.210 %)SAP
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