Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for Windows 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 over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

LinkMicrosoft Windows
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank75
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-2
Matching contract IT job ads35559268
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK10.35 %12.04 %
As % of the Operating Systems category57.80 %59.84 %
Daily rates quoted11702215
Average daily rate£325£350
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£170£170
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£325
% change on same period last year-15.38 %
Hourly rates quoted7121991
Average hourly rate£17.00£16.50
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year+3.030 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£15.50
% change on same period last year+12.90 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
615115487
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK17.91 %20.12 %
Daily rates quoted20924219
Average daily rate£329£375
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-12.26 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£190£195
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£287£350
% change on same period last year-18.14 %
Hourly rates quoted8092394
Average hourly rate£17.50£17.50
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£16.50
% change on same period last year+6.060 %

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.

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows within 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 IT contract jobs citing Windows within 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows within 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-23286£325-7.14 %
LondonDown-61329£400+6.52 %
South EastDown-2887£325-7.24 %
City of LondonDown-5477£425+6.25 %
BerkshireDown-2292£350-6.04 %
South WestDown-1238£275-17.91 %
HampshireDown-1230£300-14.28 %
East of EnglandNo change0216£139-49.54 %
North WestDown-3188£248-41.76 %
ReadingDown-1174£350-
ScotlandDown-1153£275-8.33 %
West MidlandsUp+2141£205-28.86 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2129£327-18.29 %
YorkshireDown-3121£316+14.90 %
East MidlandsNo change097£300+14.28 %
SurreyDown-196£273+9.00 %
EssexNo change095£110-21.42 %
Milton KeynesDown-189£327-18.29 %
OxfordshireUp+172£225-23.72 %
West YorkshireDown-768£324+15.53 %
WalesNo change067£250-53.33 %
ManchesterDown-564£200-52.38 %
GloucestershireUp+263£360-6.72 %
BristolDown-261£240-33.33 %
CambridgeshireDown-355£244-5.79 %
South WalesDown-154£246-55.22 %
GlasgowUp+353£175-44.00 %
WiltshireDown-251£275-13.72 %
BasingstokeNo change044£304-24.06 %
LeedsDown-944£330+20.00 %

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

12690 (33.37 %)Windows Server 2003
22208 (27.39 %)Active Directory
32161 (26.81 %)Microsoft
41933 (23.98 %)Windows XP
51352 (16.77 %)Security Cleared
61257 (15.60 %)UNIX
71237 (15.35 %)SQL
81205 (14.95 %)MS Office
91117 (13.86 %)SQL Server
101070 (13.28 %)MS Exchange
111060 (13.15 %)Windows 2000
12959 (11.90 %)Linux
13917 (11.38 %)Oracle
14898 (11.14 %)SC Cleared
15865 (10.73 %)Finance
16836 (10.37 %)MS Excel
17828 (10.27 %)VMware
18824 (10.22 %)Citrix
19789 (9.789 %)Microsoft Certification
20773 (9.591 %).NET
21723 (8.970 %)ITIL
22699 (8.672 %)HP
23666 (8.263 %)Banking
24604 (7.494 %)Windows Vista
25601 (7.457 %)TCP/IP
26584 (7.246 %)C#
27578 (7.171 %)MCSE
27578 (7.171 %)Exchange Server 2003
28540 (6.700 %)SAN
29536 (6.650 %)Cisco

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1773 (9.591 %).NET
2468 (5.806 %)XML
3320 (3.970 %)ASP.NET
4236 (2.928 %)HTML
5204 (2.531 %)WebServices
6158 (1.960 %)WebSphere
7134 (1.663 %)WinForms
8126 (1.563 %)J2EE
9121 (1.501 %).NET Framework
10112 (1.390 %)CSS
1198 (1.216 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1295 (1.179 %)Middleware
1392 (1.141 %)ASP
1484 (1.042 %)WPF
1579 (0.980 %)XSLT
1678 (0.968 %)WCF
1777 (0.955 %)Application Packaging
1865 (0.806 %)AJAX
1865 (0.806 %)JSP
1957 (0.707 %)Spring
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11070 (13.28 %)MS Exchange
2578 (7.171 %)Exchange Server 2003
3461 (5.720 %)IIS
4430 (5.335 %)SharePoint
5297 (3.685 %)Exchange Server 2007
6202 (2.506 %)SharePoint Server 2007
7192 (2.382 %)Lotus Notes
8118 (1.464 %)Apache
997 (1.203 %)Exchange Server 2000
1072 (0.893 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1170 (0.868 %)BizTalk Server
1267 (0.831 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1363 (0.782 %)Tomcat
1462 (0.769 %)Lotus Domino
1558 (0.720 %)WebSphere Portal
1657 (0.707 %)CMS
1749 (0.608 %)GroupWise
1846 (0.571 %)WebSphere MQ
1846 (0.571 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1945 (0.558 %)WebLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11205 (14.95 %)MS Office
2836 (10.37 %)MS Excel
377 (0.955 %)MS Project
462 (0.769 %)MS Visio
539 (0.484 %)MS PowerPoint
631 (0.385 %)Spreadsheet
729 (0.360 %)InfoPath
821 (0.261 %)Photoshop
913 (0.161 %)Acrobat
107 (0.087 %)Paint Shop Pro
107 (0.087 %)Doxygen
116 (0.074 %)CA Clarity
124 (0.050 %)AutoCAD
133 (0.037 %)QuarkXPress
133 (0.037 %)Fireworks
142 (0.025 %)MATLAB
142 (0.025 %)ArcInfo
142 (0.025 %)SPSS
142 (0.025 %)FrameMaker
142 (0.025 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
152 (0.645 %)SoftGrid
229 (0.360 %)assyst
328 (0.347 %)BusinessWorks
424 (0.298 %)RMDS
520 (0.248 %)Oracle EBS
616 (0.199 %)Microsoft CRM
714 (0.174 %)Metrica
813 (0.161 %)WebTrends
813 (0.161 %)Endur
912 (0.149 %)TIBCO iProcess
1011 (0.136 %)Remedy ITSM
1110 (0.124 %)Summit
129 (0.112 %)Loan IQ
138 (0.099 %)SAP ERP
138 (0.099 %)Oracle Financials
147 (0.087 %)Oracle 11i
147 (0.087 %)Oracle Applications
155 (0.062 %)Global One
155 (0.062 %)Capstone
155 (0.062 %)ION MarketView
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1601 (7.457 %)TCP/IP
2540 (6.700 %)SAN
3427 (5.298 %)DNS
4407 (5.050 %)Firewall
5391 (4.851 %)LAN
6380 (4.715 %)WAN
7346 (4.293 %)Internet
8273 (3.387 %)DHCP
9231 (2.866 %)VPN
10128 (1.588 %)LDAP
11122 (1.514 %)NAS
12113 (1.402 %)Wireless
1387 (1.079 %)HTTP
1486 (1.067 %)SMS
1582 (1.017 %)Intranet
1582 (1.017 %)Network Security
1675 (0.931 %)VoIP
1768 (0.844 %)SMTP
1860 (0.744 %)Ethernet
1952 (0.645 %)FTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11117 (13.86 %)SQL Server
2405 (5.025 %)SQL Server 2005
3252 (3.127 %)SQL Server 2000
4170 (2.109 %)Oracle 10g
581 (1.005 %)MySQL
675 (0.931 %)MS Access
774 (0.918 %)SQL Server 2008
871 (0.881 %)BusinessObjects
970 (0.868 %)Oracle 9i
1068 (0.844 %)Oracle 8/8i
1162 (0.769 %)Crystal Reports
1162 (0.769 %)RDBMS
1259 (0.732 %)Oracle Reports
1350 (0.620 %)Datawarehouse
1446 (0.571 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1538 (0.471 %)ETL
1636 (0.447 %)DB2
1735 (0.434 %)Oracle 11g
1834 (0.422 %)GIS
1932 (0.397 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1153 (1.898 %)ClearCase
2130 (1.613 %)Visual Studio
391 (1.129 %)MSI
483 (1.030 %)TestDirector
552 (0.645 %)Subversion
644 (0.546 %)VSS/SourceSafe
741 (0.509 %)StarTeam
840 (0.496 %)Oracle Forms
935 (0.434 %)LoadRunner
935 (0.434 %)ClearQuest
1032 (0.397 %)InstallShield
1129 (0.360 %)Ant
1222 (0.273 %)WinRunner
1320 (0.248 %)CruiseControl
1419 (0.236 %)NUnit
1419 (0.236 %)Team Foundation Server
1419 (0.236 %)QuickTest Pro
1516 (0.199 %)Eclipse
1516 (0.199 %)JUnit
1615 (0.186 %)RequisitePro
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1865 (10.73 %)Finance
2666 (8.263 %)Banking
3489 (6.067 %)Government
4365 (4.529 %)Investment Banking
5217 (2.692 %)Front Office
6146 (1.811 %)Telecoms
7126 (1.563 %)Insurance
8110 (1.365 %)Retail
9109 (1.352 %)Education
10104 (1.290 %)Health
1188 (1.092 %)Legal
1278 (0.968 %)Financial Institution
1365 (0.806 %)Back Office
1456 (0.695 %)Law
1456 (0.695 %)Local Government
1555 (0.682 %)Pharmaceutical
1653 (0.658 %)Military
1742 (0.521 %)Publishing
1742 (0.521 %)Auditing
1840 (0.496 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11584 (19.65 %)Analyst
21038 (12.88 %)Developer
3762 (9.454 %)Support Analyst
4686 (8.511 %)Support Engineer
5557 (6.911 %)Consultant
6484 (6.005 %)Administrator
7466 (5.782 %)Desktop Support
8354 (4.392 %)Architect
9310 (3.846 %)2nd Line Support
10300 (3.722 %)Desktop Engineer
11275 (3.412 %)3rd Line Support
12243 (3.015 %)Helpdesk Analyst
13208 (2.581 %)1st Line Support
14202 (2.506 %)Desktop Support Engineer
15197 (2.444 %)C# Developer
15197 (2.444 %).NET Developer
16196 (2.432 %)Service Analyst
17190 (2.357 %)C++ Developer
18187 (2.320 %)DBA
19183 (2.270 %)Service Desk Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1292 (3.623 %)Blackberry
2275 (3.412 %)Clustering
3189 (2.345 %)NHS
4156 (1.935 %)Derivative
5107 (1.328 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6101 (1.253 %)Client/Server
788 (1.092 %)Fixed Income
887 (1.079 %)PDA
980 (0.993 %)Equities
980 (0.993 %)Replication
1069 (0.856 %)Thin Client
1069 (0.856 %)Fat Client
1164 (0.794 %)Mainframe
1255 (0.682 %)Computer Science
1354 (0.670 %)PKI
1452 (0.645 %)Equity Derivative
1452 (0.645 %)CLARiiON
1550 (0.620 %)Management Information System
1649 (0.608 %)French Language
1740 (0.496 %)Multithreading
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12690 (33.37 %)Windows Server 2003
21933 (23.98 %)Windows XP
31257 (15.60 %)UNIX
41060 (13.15 %)Windows 2000
5959 (11.90 %)Linux
6604 (7.494 %)Windows Vista
7491 (6.092 %)Solaris
8472 (5.856 %)Windows Server 2008
9372 (4.615 %)Windows 2000 Server
10295 (3.660 %)Windows NT
11121 (1.501 %)AIX
12104 (1.290 %)Red Hat Linux
1397 (1.203 %)Windows Mobile
1496 (1.191 %)NetWare
1579 (0.980 %)HPUX
1659 (0.732 %)Mac OS X
1740 (0.496 %)Windows CE
1830 (0.372 %)VMS
1923 (0.285 %)SUSE
2021 (0.261 %)Mac OS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1723 (8.970 %)ITIL
2469 (5.819 %)Migration
3216 (2.680 %)Project Management
4182 (2.258 %)Configuration Management
5171 (2.122 %)OO
6150 (1.861 %)Disaster Recovery
7137 (1.700 %)PRINCE2
8126 (1.563 %)UML
9119 (1.476 %)Workflow
10113 (1.402 %)Change Management
11112 (1.390 %)Service Delivery
12108 (1.340 %)Test Scripting
13100 (1.241 %)Agile Software Development
1495 (1.179 %)Service Management
1591 (1.129 %)Release Management
1684 (1.042 %)Load Balancing
1684 (1.042 %)Risk Management
1782 (1.017 %)Time Management
1881 (1.005 %)Incident Management
1980 (0.993 %)Web Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11237 (15.35 %)SQL
2584 (7.246 %)C#
3531 (6.588 %)C++
4490 (6.079 %)Java
5351 (4.355 %)C
6306 (3.797 %)VB
7237 (2.940 %)Perl
8202 (2.506 %)JavaScript
9170 (2.109 %)VBScript
10139 (1.725 %)Shell Script
11134 (1.663 %)PL/SQL
12128 (1.588 %)VB.NET
13102 (1.266 %)T-SQL
1470 (0.868 %)VBA
1568 (0.844 %)VC++
1666 (0.819 %)PHP
1763 (0.782 %)Korn
1860 (0.744 %)PowerShell
1956 (0.695 %)Python
2048 (0.596 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11352 (16.77 %)Security Cleared
2898 (11.14 %)SC Cleared
3789 (9.789 %)Microsoft Certification
4578 (7.171 %)MCSE
5224 (2.779 %)Degree
6222 (2.754 %)MCP
7200 (2.481 %)DV Cleared
8173 (2.146 %)Cisco Certification
9137 (1.700 %)CCNA
1091 (1.129 %)MCSA
1171 (0.881 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1260 (0.744 %)ITIL Certification
1355 (0.682 %)CCNP
1453 (0.658 %)Novell Certification
1551 (0.633 %)CISSP
1650 (0.620 %)CNE
1749 (0.608 %)Citrix Certification
1842 (0.521 %)BC Cleared
1936 (0.447 %)ISEB
1936 (0.447 %)MCTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1217 (2.692 %)SLA
285 (1.055 %)QA
335 (0.434 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
416 (0.199 %)PCI DSS
513 (0.161 %)ISO27001
611 (0.136 %)HL7
76 (0.074 %)DICOM
76 (0.074 %)ISO9001
76 (0.074 %)COBIT
85 (0.062 %)BS15000
94 (0.050 %)RosettaNet
103 (0.037 %)BS7799
112 (0.025 %)Basel II
112 (0.025 %)ISO17799
121 (0.012 %)WAI
121 (0.012 %)HMG Infosec
121 (0.012 %)TickIT
121 (0.012 %)ISO9002
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12208 (27.39 %)Active Directory
2375 (4.653 %)VMware Infrastructure
3252 (3.127 %)VMware ESX
4146 (1.811 %)NetBackup
5110 (1.365 %)Citrix Presentation Server
6102 (1.266 %)Backup Exec
788 (1.092 %)ISA Server
886 (1.067 %)Terminal Services
966 (0.819 %)Terminal Server
1060 (0.744 %)Oracle RAC
1150 (0.620 %)XenApp
1240 (0.496 %)Hyper-V
1240 (0.496 %)MetaFrame
1336 (0.447 %)NFS
1433 (0.409 %)Oracle RMAN
1530 (0.372 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1620 (0.248 %)RACF
1620 (0.248 %)VMware Workstation
1715 (0.186 %)VMware Server
1715 (0.186 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1219 (2.717 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
2169 (2.097 %)OpenView Configuration Management
3134 (1.663 %)SCCM
4111 (1.377 %)MOM
595 (1.179 %)Tivoli
682 (1.017 %)OpenView
778 (0.968 %)SCOM
846 (0.571 %)ZENworks
944 (0.546 %)Norton AntiVirus
1039 (0.484 %)Netcool
1136 (0.447 %)WSUS
1234 (0.422 %)Data Guard
1234 (0.422 %)CONTROL-M
1331 (0.385 %)Legato
1430 (0.372 %)CA SiteMinder
1430 (0.372 %)OVOW
1527 (0.335 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1625 (0.310 %)BMC PATROL
1625 (0.310 %)HP Data Protector
1723 (0.285 %)OVPI
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12161 (26.81 %)Microsoft
2917 (11.38 %)Oracle
3828 (10.27 %)VMware
4824 (10.22 %)Citrix
5699 (8.672 %)HP
6536 (6.650 %)Cisco
7239 (2.965 %)IBM
8218 (2.705 %)Lotus
9178 (2.208 %)Sybase
10176 (2.184 %)Dell
11156 (1.935 %)EMC
12151 (1.873 %)Sun
13146 (1.811 %)Symantec
14145 (1.799 %)Novell
15133 (1.650 %)Remedy
16130 (1.613 %)Altiris
16130 (1.613 %)Veritas
17104 (1.290 %)Red Hat
1898 (1.216 %)McAfee Security
1997 (1.203 %)NetApp