Wales Windows NT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows NT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows NT
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hartlepool Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	42
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	22	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	12.72 %	10.11 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£200
Average daily rate	£378	£200
% change on same period last year	+88.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£259	£316
% change on same period last year	-17.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£19.78
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£19.96
% change on same period last year	+10.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.63	£19.15
% change on same period last year	+7.73 %
Operating Systems Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	173	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.231 %	0.190 %
Daily rates quoted	29	48
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£316
Average daily rate	£389	£332
% change on same period last year	+17.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.65	£22.69
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£23.81
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£24.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows NT UK

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 NT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows NT across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows NT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows NT across the Wales region.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows NT
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows NT within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank 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
South Wales	-7	14	£378	-
West Wales	-	3	-	-
North Wales	-	1	-	-

Windows NT UK

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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 18 (62.07 %) Windows 2 14 (48.28 %) Active Directory 3 12 (41.38 %) Microsoft 3 12 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 12 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 10 (34.48 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 8 (27.59 %) Government 5 8 (27.59 %) Migration 5 8 (27.59 %) NDS 5 8 (27.59 %) MS Exchange 5 8 (27.59 %) Citrix 5 8 (27.59 %) UNIX 6 7 (24.14 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (24.14 %) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (24.14 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

6 7 (24.14 %) GroupWise 7 6 (20.69 %) Security Cleared 8 5 (17.24 %) SC Cleared 8 5 (17.24 %) HP 9 4 (13.79 %) Compaq 9 4 (13.79 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 4 (13.79 %) Windows XP 9 4 (13.79 %) Telecoms 9 4 (13.79 %) IBM 9 4 (13.79 %) Novell 9 4 (13.79 %) Siemens 9 4 (13.79 %) PACS 9 4 (13.79 %) Clustering 9 4 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 4 (13.79 %) Fujitsu Siemens

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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 3 (10.34 %) .NET 1 3 (10.34 %) WebServices 1 3 (10.34 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.448 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 12 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 12 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (34.48 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 8 (27.59 %) MS Exchange 4 7 (24.14 %) GroupWise 5 4 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 3 (10.34 %) IIS 6 3 (10.34 %) Apache 6 3 (10.34 %) SharePoint 7 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Excel 1 3 (10.34 %) InfoPath 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.448 %) SmartSuite	Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.34 %) Intranet 1 3 (10.34 %) Extranet 2 2 (6.897 %) SAN 3 1 (3.448 %) LAN 3 1 (3.448 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server	General 1 8 (27.59 %) Government 2 4 (13.79 %) Telecoms 3 3 (10.34 %) Health 4 1 (3.448 %) Banking 4 1 (3.448 %) Billing 4 1 (3.448 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (17.24 %) Project Manager 1 5 (17.24 %) Analyst 1 5 (17.24 %) Technical Lead 2 4 (13.79 %) Server Specialist 2 4 (13.79 %) Technical Specialist 3 3 (10.34 %) Operations Analyst 3 3 (10.34 %) Web Designer 4 2 (6.897 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.448 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (3.448 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Computer Operator 5 1 (3.448 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (3.448 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Desktop Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (13.79 %) Clustering 1 4 (13.79 %) PACS 2 3 (10.34 %) Fat Client 2 3 (10.34 %) NHS 2 3 (10.34 %) Thin Client 2 3 (10.34 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 18 (62.07 %) Windows 2 8 (27.59 %) UNIX 3 7 (24.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (24.14 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (13.79 %) Windows XP 5 1 (3.448 %) NetWare 5 1 (3.448 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (27.59 %) Migration 2 6 (20.69 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (17.24 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (10.34 %) Network Design 4 3 (10.34 %) Knowledge Management 4 3 (10.34 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (10.34 %) Workflow 4 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 5 2 (6.897 %) ITIL 6 1 (3.448 %) Problem Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Service Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Process Management 6 1 (3.448 %) CRM 6 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE 6 1 (3.448 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.448 %) Perl 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (13.79 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) Degree 2 1 (3.448 %) MCSE 2 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) SLA	System Software 1 14 (48.28 %) Active Directory 2 8 (27.59 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 7 (24.14 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (10.34 %) Legato 3 1 (3.448 %) Tivoli 3 1 (3.448 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 12 (41.38 %) Microsoft 2 8 (27.59 %) Citrix 3 5 (17.24 %) HP 4 4 (13.79 %) Compaq 4 4 (13.79 %) Novell 4 4 (13.79 %) Siemens 4 4 (13.79 %) IBM 4 4 (13.79 %) Fujitsu Siemens 5 3 (10.34 %) ICL 5 3 (10.34 %) Remedy 5 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 6 2 (6.897 %) SAP 7 1 (3.448 %) Sun 7 1 (3.448 %) Peregrine 7 1 (3.448 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (3.448 %) FileNet 7 1 (3.448 %) Lotus