Worcestershire Windows Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Worcestershire 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	2	3
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	12	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£151
Average daily rate	£358	£173
% change on same period last year	+107.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£194
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£14.50
% change on same period last year	+3.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.22	£20.13
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Operating Systems Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£151
Average daily rate	£324	£169
% change on same period last year	+92.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£187
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.76	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£20.38	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+35.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£16.50
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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows
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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Redditch	+1	6	-	-
Kidderminster	0	5	-	-
Worcester	0	3	£190	-2.14 %
Pershore	-	2	-	-

Windows West Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 23 (76.67 %) Windows XP 2 18 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 14 (46.67 %) MS Office 5 10 (33.33 %) MS Excel 6 8 (26.67 %) NHS 6 8 (26.67 %) Active Directory 6 8 (26.67 %) HP 7 7 (23.33 %) Security Cleared 8 5 (16.67 %) CTC Cleared 8 5 (16.67 %) Wyse 8 5 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (16.67 %) DNS 9 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 9 4 (13.33 %) LAN

9 4 (13.33 %) ITIL 10 3 (10.00 %) SMTP 10 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 10 3 (10.00 %) SNMP 10 3 (10.00 %) Government 10 3 (10.00 %) SC Cleared 11 2 (6.667 %) Apple 11 2 (6.667 %) Sun 11 2 (6.667 %) Compaq 11 2 (6.667 %) Dell 11 2 (6.667 %) DHCP 11 2 (6.667 %) Solaris 11 2 (6.667 %) WAN 12 1 (3.333 %) SMS 12 1 (3.333 %) MCP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 Platforms 1 1 (3.333 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 14 (46.67 %) MS Office 2 10 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 1 5 (16.67 %) DNS 2 4 (13.33 %) LAN 3 3 (10.00 %) SMTP 3 3 (10.00 %) SNMP 4 2 (6.667 %) WAN 4 2 (6.667 %) DHCP 5 1 (3.333 %) SMS	General 1 3 (10.00 %) Government 2 1 (3.333 %) Health 2 1 (3.333 %) Law 2 1 (3.333 %) Finance 2 1 (3.333 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 15 (50.00 %) Desktop Support 2 13 (43.33 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (40.00 %) Desktop Engineer 4 11 (36.67 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 10 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 6 8 (26.67 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 7 5 (16.67 %) Analyst 8 3 (10.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 2 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 9 2 (6.667 %) IT Support Analyst 9 2 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 9 2 (6.667 %) Cabling Engineer 10 1 (3.333 %) Service Manager 10 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support Engineer 10 1 (3.333 %) Senior Support Analyst 10 1 (3.333 %) Technical Engineer 10 1 (3.333 %) Installations Engineer 10 1 (3.333 %) IT Administrator 10 1 (3.333 %) Data Centre Engineer 10 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 8 (26.67 %) NHS 2 1 (3.333 %) Thin Client 2 1 (3.333 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 23 (76.67 %) Windows XP 2 18 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (6.667 %) Solaris 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (23.33 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (16.67 %) CTC Cleared 3 4 (13.33 %) ITIL 4 3 (10.00 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (3.333 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (3.333 %) Service Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Release Management
Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) MCP 1 1 (3.333 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.333 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 8 (26.67 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 8 (26.67 %) HP 3 5 (16.67 %) Wyse 4 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 5 2 (6.667 %) Apple 5 2 (6.667 %) Sun 5 2 (6.667 %) Compaq 5 2 (6.667 %) Dell 6 1 (3.333 %) Citrix