Wolverhampton Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Wolverhampton 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenock Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	2
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	13	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£165	£298
Average daily rate	£180	£303
% change on same period last year	-40.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.14	£17.17
Average hourly rate	£12.29	£18.19
% change on same period last year	-32.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.43	£19.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.22	£20.13
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Operating Systems Wolverhampton
Matching contract IT job ads	13	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£168	£239
Average daily rate	£182	£243
% change on same period last year	-25.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£196	£247
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.67	£18.33
Average hourly rate	£12.92	£19.09
% change on same period last year	-32.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.17	£19.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Windows West Midlands

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 Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton region.

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Wolverhampton region over the 3 months to 3 December 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 Wolverhampton region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 24 (63.16 %) Active Directory 2 19 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 3 18 (47.37 %) MS Office 4 17 (44.74 %) MS Excel 5 14 (36.84 %) TCP/IP 6 13 (34.21 %) Microsoft 7 12 (31.58 %) Windows Server 2003 7 12 (31.58 %) Windows XP 8 9 (23.68 %) Windows Vista 8 9 (23.68 %) VBScript 9 6 (15.79 %) Windows 2000 10 5 (13.16 %) XML 10 5 (13.16 %) VB 11 4 (10.53 %) BT 11 4 (10.53 %) VB6

11 4 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 4 (10.53 %) .NET 12 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 12 3 (7.895 %) Citrix 12 3 (7.895 %) SQL Server 12 3 (7.895 %) VB.NET 12 3 (7.895 %) C# 12 3 (7.895 %) C++ 12 3 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 2 (5.263 %) SCOM 13 2 (5.263 %) SC Cleared 13 2 (5.263 %) Security Cleared 13 2 (5.263 %) XSLT 13 2 (5.263 %) MCSE 13 2 (5.263 %) Microsoft Certification

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 5 (13.16 %) XML 2 4 (10.53 %) .NET 3 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (5.263 %) XSLT 5 1 (2.632 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 19 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 18 (47.37 %) MS Office 2 17 (44.74 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (36.84 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (2.632 %) SAN 2 1 (2.632 %) Internet 2 1 (2.632 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.895 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (2.632 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 10 (26.32 %) Analyst 2 9 (23.68 %) Desktop Engineer 3 6 (15.79 %) Desktop Support 4 5 (13.16 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (13.16 %) Service Analyst 4 5 (13.16 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 4 (10.53 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 4 (10.53 %) 1st Line Support 5 4 (10.53 %) Developer 5 4 (10.53 %) Senior Desktop Engineer 5 4 (10.53 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Support Technician 6 3 (7.895 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (7.895 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (5.263 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 2 (5.263 %) Design Engineer 7 2 (5.263 %) Technical Engineer 7 2 (5.263 %) Server Engineer 8 1 (2.632 %) Field Support Engineer 8 1 (2.632 %) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.632 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 12 (31.58 %) Windows XP 1 12 (31.58 %) Windows Server 2003 2 9 (23.68 %) Windows Vista 3 6 (15.79 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.632 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.263 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (5.263 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.632 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 9 (23.68 %) VBScript 2 5 (13.16 %) VB 3 4 (10.53 %) VB6 4 3 (7.895 %) VB.NET 4 3 (7.895 %) C# 4 3 (7.895 %) C++
Qualifications 1 2 (5.263 %) MCSE 1 2 (5.263 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.632 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.632 %) SLA
System Software 1 24 (63.16 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (5.263 %) SCOM 2 1 (2.632 %) Legato 2 1 (2.632 %) MIMEsweeper
Vendors 1 13 (34.21 %) Microsoft 2 4 (10.53 %) BT 3 3 (7.895 %) Citrix