West Midlands Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the West Midlands 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 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	6
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	307	362
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.409 %	0.367 %
As % of the category below	67.92 %	50.49 %
Daily rates quoted	42	49
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£234
Average daily rate	£302	£246
% change on same period last year	+22.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£258
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£313
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	140
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.94	£17.05
Average hourly rate	£15.71	£18.53
% change on same period last year	-15.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.48	£20.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.60	£20.63
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
Operating Systems West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	452	717
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.602 %	0.727 %
Daily rates quoted	69	116
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£264
Average daily rate	£311	£274
% change on same period last year	+13.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	107	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.93	£21.61
Average hourly rate	£17.87	£23.51
% change on same period last year	-23.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.81	£25.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.11	£23.45
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
Windows England

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Windows
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham	-8	62	£247	-2.84 %
Warwickshire	-1	47	£358	+104.76 %
Coventry	-7	34	£254	-10.44 %
Staffordshire	+6	31	£277	+5.60 %
Shropshire	-1	22	£428	+42.50 %
Wolverhampton	-1	21	£391	+56.40 %
Herefordshire	+11	18	£292	+15.91 %
Worcestershire	+4	16	-	-
Dudley	+2	7	-	-
Solihull	-6	4	-	-
Kingswinford	-	3	-	-
West Bromwich	-2	2	-	-
Stourbridge	-	1	-	-
Sutton Coldfield	-1	1	-	-
Tipton	-	1	-	-
Walsall	+5	1	-	-

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 263 (35.49 %) Active Directory 2 206 (27.80 %) Microsoft 3 171 (23.08 %) Windows XP 4 153 (20.65 %) MS Office 5 149 (20.11 %) Windows 2000 6 119 (16.06 %) Windows Server 2003 7 100 (13.50 %) SQL Server 8 94 (12.69 %) UNIX 9 92 (12.42 %) MS Exchange 10 88 (11.88 %) Citrix 11 87 (11.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 83 (11.20 %) TCP/IP 13 80 (10.80 %) MS Excel 14 77 (10.39 %) Windows NT 14 77 (10.39 %) DNS

14 77 (10.39 %) SQL 15 75 (10.12 %) Linux 16 65 (8.772 %) HP 17 63 (8.502 %) .NET 17 63 (8.502 %) Firewall 18 62 (8.367 %) Oracle 19 59 (7.962 %) Cisco 20 51 (6.883 %) Solaris 21 50 (6.748 %) ITIL 22 48 (6.478 %) Security Cleared 23 47 (6.343 %) C# 24 46 (6.208 %) SAN 24 46 (6.208 %) VMware 25 43 (5.803 %) Government 26 40 (5.398 %) VBScript

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 63 (8.502 %) .NET 2 37 (4.993 %) ASP.NET 3 30 (4.049 %) XML 4 29 (3.914 %) HTML 5 24 (3.239 %) WebSphere 6 19 (2.564 %) WF 7 18 (2.429 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 18 (2.429 %) XSLT 8 12 (1.619 %) WMI 8 12 (1.619 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 11 (1.484 %) ADSI 10 10 (1.350 %) WebServices 10 10 (1.350 %) WCF 11 9 (1.215 %) ADO 11 9 (1.215 %) CSS 12 8 (1.080 %) J2EE 12 8 (1.080 %) WinForms 13 7 (0.945 %) EJB 13 7 (0.945 %) .NET Framework 14 4 (0.540 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 92 (12.42 %) MS Exchange 2 87 (11.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 28 (3.779 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 22 (2.969 %) SharePoint 5 21 (2.834 %) Tomcat 6 20 (2.699 %) Apache 6 20 (2.699 %) Lotus Notes 7 18 (2.429 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 17 (2.294 %) Lotus Domino 9 14 (1.889 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 12 (1.619 %) IIS 11 9 (1.215 %) WebLogic 11 9 (1.215 %) Office Project Server 11 9 (1.215 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 8 (1.080 %) BizTalk Server 13 5 (0.675 %) GroupWise 14 4 (0.540 %) MQSeries 14 4 (0.540 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 3 (0.405 %) Tuxedo 15 3 (0.405 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 153 (20.65 %) MS Office 2 80 (10.80 %) MS Excel 3 3 (0.405 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (0.405 %) InfoPath 4 2 (0.270 %) CA Clarity 4 2 (0.270 %) DeltaView 4 2 (0.270 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.135 %) Acrobat 5 1 (0.135 %) CATIA 5 1 (0.135 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 10 (1.350 %) SoftGrid 2 8 (1.080 %) Remedy AR System 3 5 (0.675 %) assyst 4 2 (0.270 %) SAP IS-U 5 1 (0.135 %) Teamcenter 5 1 (0.135 %) SAP CO 5 1 (0.135 %) SAP R/3 5 1 (0.135 %) SAP FI 5 1 (0.135 %) MFGPRO 5 1 (0.135 %) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking 1 83 (11.20 %) TCP/IP 2 77 (10.39 %) DNS 3 63 (8.502 %) Firewall 4 46 (6.208 %) SAN 5 35 (4.723 %) VPN 6 32 (4.318 %) Internet 7 28 (3.779 %) DHCP 8 23 (3.104 %) LAN 9 18 (2.429 %) WAN 10 9 (1.215 %) SMS 10 9 (1.215 %) SNMP 11 8 (1.080 %) SMTP 12 6 (0.810 %) LDAP 12 6 (0.810 %) Intranet 12 6 (0.810 %) Wireless 13 5 (0.675 %) VoIP 13 5 (0.675 %) Network Security 14 4 (0.540 %) iSCSI 14 4 (0.540 %) Broadband 14 4 (0.540 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 100 (13.50 %) SQL Server 2 34 (4.588 %) SQL Server 2005 3 23 (3.104 %) SQL Server 2000 4 20 (2.699 %) RDBMS 5 11 (1.484 %) SQL Server 7 6 9 (1.215 %) MySQL 7 7 (0.945 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 6 (0.810 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 4 (0.540 %) MS Access 9 4 (0.540 %) OLAP 10 3 (0.405 %) DB2 10 3 (0.405 %) Oracle 10g 10 3 (0.405 %) Datawarehouse 10 3 (0.405 %) DTS 10 3 (0.405 %) Data Mining 10 3 (0.405 %) TOAD 10 3 (0.405 %) EDRMS 10 3 (0.405 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 2 (0.270 %) Oracle OLAP 11 2 (0.270 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 30 (4.049 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (1.080 %) Subversion 3 4 (0.540 %) JUnit 4 3 (0.405 %) Ant 4 3 (0.405 %) TestDirector 4 3 (0.405 %) MSI 4 3 (0.405 %) NUnit 4 3 (0.405 %) CruiseControl 5 2 (0.270 %) Zend Studio 5 2 (0.270 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 2 (0.270 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (0.270 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 2 (0.270 %) Eclipse 5 2 (0.270 %) WinRunner 6 1 (0.135 %) ClearQuest 6 1 (0.135 %) PVCS 6 1 (0.135 %) Oracle Forms 6 1 (0.135 %) StarTeam	General 1 43 (5.803 %) Government 2 15 (2.024 %) Finance 3 14 (1.889 %) Telecoms 4 8 (1.080 %) Manufacturing 5 7 (0.945 %) Education 6 6 (0.810 %) Insurance 7 5 (0.675 %) Legal 8 4 (0.540 %) Automotive 9 2 (0.270 %) Construction 9 2 (0.270 %) Electric 9 2 (0.270 %) Health 9 2 (0.270 %) Law 9 2 (0.270 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.135 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.135 %) Games 10 1 (0.135 %) Banking 10 1 (0.135 %) Retail 10 1 (0.135 %) Aerospace 10 1 (0.135 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.135 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 151 (20.38 %) Analyst 2 95 (12.82 %) Developer 3 92 (12.42 %) Support Analyst 4 81 (10.93 %) Desktop Support 5 79 (10.66 %) Support Engineer 6 76 (10.26 %) 2nd Line Support 7 46 (6.208 %) Desktop Engineer 8 37 (4.993 %) 3rd Line Support 9 33 (4.453 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 33 (4.453 %) 1st Line Support 9 33 (4.453 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 28 (3.779 %) Administrator 11 27 (3.644 %) Helpdesk Support 12 25 (3.374 %) Support Technician 13 24 (3.239 %) Technical Support 13 24 (3.239 %) .NET Developer 14 23 (3.104 %) Architect 15 22 (2.969 %) Consultant 16 21 (2.834 %) Server Support 16 21 (2.834 %) Service Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 26 (3.509 %) NHS 2 13 (1.754 %) Thin Client 2 13 (1.754 %) Fat Client 3 12 (1.619 %) Client/Server 4 10 (1.350 %) PDA 5 8 (1.080 %) SecurID 6 7 (0.945 %) Blackberry 6 7 (0.945 %) Mathematics 7 6 (0.810 %) Mainframe 7 6 (0.810 %) Clustering 8 4 (0.540 %) AS400 8 4 (0.540 %) N-Tier 8 4 (0.540 %) IBM Mainframe 9 2 (0.270 %) Computer Science 9 2 (0.270 %) EPoS 9 2 (0.270 %) Replication 9 2 (0.270 %) Pocket PC 10 1 (0.135 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 10 1 (0.135 %) Handset 10 1 (0.135 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 171 (23.08 %) Windows XP 2 149 (20.11 %) Windows 2000 3 119 (16.06 %) Windows Server 2003 4 94 (12.69 %) UNIX 5 77 (10.39 %) Windows NT 6 75 (10.12 %) Linux 7 51 (6.883 %) Solaris 8 30 (4.049 %) AIX 9 14 (1.889 %) NetWare 10 10 (1.350 %) HPUX 10 10 (1.350 %) Windows Mobile 11 9 (1.215 %) Fedora 12 8 (1.080 %) Tru64 13 6 (0.810 %) Windows Vista 14 4 (0.540 %) Mac OS X 15 3 (0.405 %) Windows CE 15 3 (0.405 %) Ubuntu 15 3 (0.405 %) VMS 16 1 (0.135 %) OpenVMS 16 1 (0.135 %) Palm OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (6.748 %) ITIL 2 48 (6.478 %) Security Cleared 3 27 (3.644 %) Migration 4 25 (3.374 %) Workflow 5 19 (2.564 %) SC Cleared 6 15 (2.024 %) Project Management 7 13 (1.754 %) Configuration Management 7 13 (1.754 %) Problem Management 8 11 (1.484 %) Service Management 8 11 (1.484 %) CRM 9 9 (1.215 %) Asset Management 10 8 (1.080 %) Web Design 10 8 (1.080 %) PRINCE2 11 7 (0.945 %) UML 11 7 (0.945 %) OO 11 7 (0.945 %) Change Management 11 7 (0.945 %) Disaster Recovery 12 6 (0.810 %) Service Delivery 12 6 (0.810 %) Business Intelligence 13 5 (0.675 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 77 (10.39 %) SQL 2 47 (6.343 %) C# 3 40 (5.398 %) VBScript 4 33 (4.453 %) VB 5 23 (3.104 %) Java 6 21 (2.834 %) C 7 16 (2.159 %) C++ 7 16 (2.159 %) VB.NET 8 12 (1.619 %) Transact-SQL 9 9 (1.215 %) JavaScript 10 6 (0.810 %) Shell Script 10 6 (0.810 %) VB6 11 4 (0.540 %) Korn 12 3 (0.405 %) Fortran 13 2 (0.270 %) XAML 13 2 (0.270 %) VBA 13 2 (0.270 %) Perl 13 2 (0.270 %) PHP 13 2 (0.270 %) PHP5 14 1 (0.135 %) C++/CLI	Qualifications 1 34 (4.588 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (3.509 %) MCSE 3 15 (2.024 %) MCP 4 9 (1.215 %) Cisco Certification 4 9 (1.215 %) Degree 5 8 (1.080 %) MCSA 6 6 (0.810 %) CCNP 7 4 (0.540 %) CCNA 7 4 (0.540 %) ITIL Certification 7 4 (0.540 %) MCDST 8 3 (0.405 %) ISEB 8 3 (0.405 %) Novell Certification 8 3 (0.405 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (0.270 %) CNE 10 1 (0.135 %) A+ Certification 10 1 (0.135 %) CCIE 10 1 (0.135 %) CNA 10 1 (0.135 %) Citrix Certification 10 1 (0.135 %) CCEA 10 1 (0.135 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 15 (2.024 %) SLA 2 5 (0.675 %) QA 3 3 (0.405 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.135 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.135 %) ISO17799 4 1 (0.135 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 263 (35.49 %) Active Directory 2 16 (2.159 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 9 (1.215 %) Terminal Services 4 8 (1.080 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 6 (0.810 %) Oracle RAC 5 6 (0.810 %) Backup Exec 5 6 (0.810 %) ISA Server 6 4 (0.540 %) NetBackup 7 3 (0.405 %) MetaFrame 8 1 (0.135 %) Terminal Server 8 1 (0.135 %) NDS 8 1 (0.135 %) VMware ESX 8 1 (0.135 %) VMware Workstation 8 1 (0.135 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 24 (3.239 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 13 (1.754 %) OpenView 3 11 (1.484 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 3 (0.405 %) Tivoli 5 2 (0.270 %) Legato 5 2 (0.270 %) BMC PATROL 5 2 (0.270 %) ARCserve 5 2 (0.270 %) DameWare 5 2 (0.270 %) NNM 5 2 (0.270 %) WSUS 6 1 (0.135 %) EMC NetWorker 6 1 (0.135 %) HP Data Protector 6 1 (0.135 %) OVOW 6 1 (0.135 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (0.135 %) MIMEsweeper 6 1 (0.135 %) MAILsweeper 6 1 (0.135 %) Nagios 6 1 (0.135 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 1 (0.135 %) Tivoli Remote Control 6 1 (0.135 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 206 (27.80 %) Microsoft 2 88 (11.88 %) Citrix 3 65 (8.772 %) HP 4 62 (8.367 %) Oracle 5 59 (7.962 %) Cisco 6 46 (6.208 %) VMware 7 37 (4.993 %) Lotus 8 35 (4.723 %) Dell 9 33 (4.453 %) IBM 10 30 (4.049 %) Red Hat 11 20 (2.699 %) Novell 12 18 (2.429 %) Remedy 13 15 (2.024 %) Sun 14 12 (1.619 %) Compaq 14 12 (1.619 %) SAP 15 9 (1.215 %) Symantec 15 9 (1.215 %) Altiris 16 8 (1.080 %) 3Com 16 8 (1.080 %) Sybase 17 7 (0.945 %) EMC