West Sussex Windows Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the West Sussex 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark 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 Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	12
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	61	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	82.43 %	81.82 %
Daily rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum daily rate	£230	£281
Average daily rate	£240	£298
% change on same period last year	-19.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£249	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£309
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.61	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£24.30	£26.46
% change on same period last year	-8.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£27.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.44	£20.99
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Operating Systems West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	74	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.077 %
Daily rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£243
Average daily rate	£216	£254
% change on same period last year	-14.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£222	£264
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.89	£24.66
Average hourly rate	£24.15	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-6.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.40	£26.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.51	£22.79
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Windows South East

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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Sussex region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Crawley	+2	26	£144	-34.47 %
Gatwick	+6	10	£250	+56.24 %
Chichester	+4	5	-	-
Worthing	+7	1	£550	-

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 87 (53.70 %) Windows Server 2003 2 69 (42.59 %) Windows XP 3 63 (38.89 %) Active Directory 4 62 (38.27 %) Microsoft 5 43 (26.54 %) Windows 2000 6 40 (24.69 %) MS Office 7 31 (19.14 %) Citrix 8 28 (17.28 %) MS Exchange 9 22 (13.58 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 22 (13.58 %) Windows NT 10 21 (12.96 %) VMware 11 20 (12.35 %) LAN 11 20 (12.35 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 18 (11.11 %) UNIX 13 17 (10.49 %) C++

13 17 (10.49 %) WAN 13 17 (10.49 %) TCP/IP 13 17 (10.49 %) MS Excel 14 16 (9.877 %) Linux 15 15 (9.259 %) Lotus Notes 15 15 (9.259 %) Lotus 16 14 (8.642 %) SQL 16 14 (8.642 %) .NET 17 13 (8.025 %) VBScript 17 13 (8.025 %) Java 18 12 (7.407 %) VB 18 12 (7.407 %) SQL Server 18 12 (7.407 %) DNS 18 12 (7.407 %) Novell 18 12 (7.407 %) Internet

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 14 (8.642 %) .NET 2 8 (4.938 %) XML 2 8 (4.938 %) WSH 3 7 (4.321 %) XML Schema 3 7 (4.321 %) Swing 3 7 (4.321 %) AWT 4 2 (1.235 %) WMI 4 2 (1.235 %) HTML 5 1 (0.617 %) Application Packaging 5 1 (0.617 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.617 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 28 (17.28 %) MS Exchange 2 22 (13.58 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 15 (9.259 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (2.469 %) SharePoint 4 4 (2.469 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (1.235 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (0.617 %) Office Communications Server 6 1 (0.617 %) CICS 6 1 (0.617 %) GroupWise 6 1 (0.617 %) CMS
Applications 1 40 (24.69 %) MS Office 2 17 (10.49 %) MS Excel 3 7 (4.321 %) Quicktime 4 2 (1.235 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 20 (12.35 %) LAN 2 17 (10.49 %) WAN 2 17 (10.49 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (7.407 %) DNS 3 12 (7.407 %) Internet 4 10 (6.173 %) Intranet 5 9 (5.556 %) Firewall 6 8 (4.938 %) SAN 7 7 (4.321 %) VPN 8 6 (3.704 %) DHCP 9 4 (2.469 %) FTP 9 4 (2.469 %) VoIP 10 3 (1.852 %) VLAN 11 2 (1.235 %) Broadband 12 1 (0.617 %) ADSL 12 1 (0.617 %) WLAN 12 1 (0.617 %) HTTP 12 1 (0.617 %) Ethernet 12 1 (0.617 %) Wi-Fi 12 1 (0.617 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2 9 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000 3 8 (4.938 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (4.938 %) DTS 3 8 (4.938 %) MySQL 4 7 (4.321 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 7 (4.321 %) RDBMS 4 7 (4.321 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 7 (4.321 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (3.086 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (0.617 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 9 (5.556 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 9 (5.556 %) Rational Rose 2 7 (4.321 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (3.086 %) MSI 4 3 (1.852 %) InstallShield
General 1 6 (3.704 %) Insurance 2 4 (2.469 %) Government 2 4 (2.469 %) Health 3 3 (1.852 %) Legal 3 3 (1.852 %) Finance 4 2 (1.235 %) Military 4 2 (1.235 %) Banking 5 1 (0.617 %) Retail 5 1 (0.617 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 63 (38.89 %) Analyst 2 28 (17.28 %) Support Analyst 3 23 (14.20 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 19 (11.73 %) 2nd Line Support 5 15 (9.259 %) Helpdesk Support 5 15 (9.259 %) Support Engineer 6 12 (7.407 %) Desktop Support 7 10 (6.173 %) 1st Line Support 7 10 (6.173 %) Service Analyst 7 10 (6.173 %) Administrator 7 10 (6.173 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 9 (5.556 %) 3rd Line Support 8 9 (5.556 %) Software Engineer 8 9 (5.556 %) Developer 9 8 (4.938 %) Systems Engineer 10 7 (4.321 %) Network Administrator 11 6 (3.704 %) Java Developer 12 5 (3.086 %) Applications Support 12 5 (3.086 %) Server Support 12 5 (3.086 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.321 %) Streaming Video 2 5 (3.086 %) Device Driver 3 4 (2.469 %) Blackberry 4 3 (1.852 %) German Language 5 2 (1.235 %) Clustering 5 2 (1.235 %) Mainframe 5 2 (1.235 %) AS400 5 2 (1.235 %) Japanese Language 5 2 (1.235 %) Spanish Language 5 2 (1.235 %) IBM Mainframe 6 1 (0.617 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.617 %) French Language 6 1 (0.617 %) Italian Language	Operating Systems 1 87 (53.70 %) Windows Server 2003 2 69 (42.59 %) Windows XP 3 43 (26.54 %) Windows 2000 4 22 (13.58 %) Windows NT 5 20 (12.35 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 18 (11.11 %) UNIX 7 16 (9.877 %) Linux 8 12 (7.407 %) Windows Vista 9 7 (4.321 %) NetWare 10 2 (1.235 %) MVS 10 2 (1.235 %) Solaris 11 1 (0.617 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (6.173 %) UML 2 9 (5.556 %) ITIL 3 7 (4.321 %) Software Testing 4 6 (3.704 %) Release Management 4 6 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 5 5 (3.086 %) Technical Architecture 5 5 (3.086 %) Software Engineering 6 4 (2.469 %) Systems Analysis 6 4 (2.469 %) Project Management 6 4 (2.469 %) Service Management 6 4 (2.469 %) BCP 6 4 (2.469 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (2.469 %) Requirements Management 7 3 (1.852 %) Operations Management 7 3 (1.852 %) Incident Management 7 3 (1.852 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (1.852 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (1.852 %) Migration 8 2 (1.235 %) Asset Management 8 2 (1.235 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 17 (10.49 %) C++ 2 14 (8.642 %) SQL 3 13 (8.025 %) VBScript 3 13 (8.025 %) Java 4 12 (7.407 %) VB 5 10 (6.173 %) VC++ 6 8 (4.938 %) Transact-SQL 6 8 (4.938 %) VB6 7 7 (4.321 %) Perl 8 6 (3.704 %) C 9 2 (1.235 %) C# 9 2 (1.235 %) COBOL 9 2 (1.235 %) VBA 10 1 (0.617 %) Python 10 1 (0.617 %) REXX 10 1 (0.617 %) JCL 10 1 (0.617 %) PHP 10 1 (0.617 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.617 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.617 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 9 (5.556 %) Degree 2 4 (2.469 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.235 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 2 (1.235 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.617 %) MCSA 4 1 (0.617 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.617 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.617 %) MCP 4 1 (0.617 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.235 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 63 (38.89 %) Active Directory 2 11 (6.790 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 9 (5.556 %) NetBackup 4 5 (3.086 %) Backup Exec 5 4 (2.469 %) ISA Server 6 2 (1.235 %) VMware ESX 6 2 (1.235 %) VMware Workstation 6 2 (1.235 %) MetaFrame 6 2 (1.235 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.617 %) Novell eDirectory	Systems Management 1 3 (1.852 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 3 (1.852 %) WSUS 2 2 (1.235 %) ZENworks 2 2 (1.235 %) MOM 3 1 (0.617 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.617 %) CiscoWorks 3 1 (0.617 %) Legato
Vendors 1 62 (38.27 %) Microsoft 2 31 (19.14 %) Citrix 3 21 (12.96 %) VMware 4 15 (9.259 %) Lotus 5 12 (7.407 %) Novell 5 12 (7.407 %) HP 6 10 (6.173 %) IBM 6 10 (6.173 %) VERITAS 7 9 (5.556 %) Apple 8 8 (4.938 %) Intel 8 8 (4.938 %) Cisco 9 7 (4.321 %) Oracle 9 7 (4.321 %) Sony 10 6 (3.704 %) Dell 11 5 (3.086 %) EMC 12 3 (1.852 %) Interwoven 12 3 (1.852 %) Compaq 12 3 (1.852 %) Symantec 13 2 (1.235 %) Mitel 13 2 (1.235 %) Ingenium