Yorkshire Windows NT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows NT skills within the Yorkshire 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	95	57
Rank change on same period last year	-38
Matching contract IT job ads	27	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	4.334 %	11.50 %
Daily rates quoted	2	14
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£290
Average daily rate	£300	£300
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£259	£316
% change on same period last year	-17.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.97	£15.24
Average hourly rate	£21.87	£16.10
% change on same period last year	+35.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£16.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.63	£19.15
% change on same period last year	+7.73 %
Operating Systems Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	623	722
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.830 %	0.730 %
Daily rates quoted	87	83
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£281
Average daily rate	£299	£300
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	121
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.80	£21.16
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.78	£22.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows NT 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 NT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows NT across the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Windows NT
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Windows NT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows NT across the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire	-4	11	£300	-
North Yorkshire	+2	8	-	-
West Yorkshire	-47	7	-	-

Windows NT England

Windows NT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 46 (63.01 %) Windows 2 24 (32.88 %) Active Directory 3 23 (31.51 %) Microsoft 3 23 (31.51 %) MS Office 4 19 (26.03 %) Windows 2000 5 18 (24.66 %) MCSE 5 18 (24.66 %) Microsoft Certification 6 15 (20.55 %) TCP/IP 6 15 (20.55 %) MS Exchange 7 12 (16.44 %) SAN 7 12 (16.44 %) Lotus 7 12 (16.44 %) Lotus Notes 8 11 (15.07 %) Windows Server 2003 8 11 (15.07 %) Back Office 9 10 (13.70 %) Linux

10 9 (12.33 %) Citrix 10 9 (12.33 %) Middleware 11 8 (10.96 %) ARCserve 11 8 (10.96 %) ITIL 11 8 (10.96 %) MCP 11 8 (10.96 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 7 (9.589 %) MS Excel 12 7 (9.589 %) WAN 12 7 (9.589 %) DNS 12 7 (9.589 %) Firewall 13 6 (8.219 %) Finance 13 6 (8.219 %) LAN 13 6 (8.219 %) MetaFrame 13 6 (8.219 %) HP

Windows NT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 9 (12.33 %) Middleware 2 4 (5.479 %) XML 2 4 (5.479 %) .NET 3 3 (4.110 %) ASP 3 3 (4.110 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (4.110 %) COM+ 3 3 (4.110 %) DCOM 3 3 (4.110 %) WebServices 3 3 (4.110 %) XSLT 3 3 (4.110 %) HTML 4 1 (1.370 %) WinForms 4 1 (1.370 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 15 (20.55 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (16.44 %) Lotus Notes 3 8 (10.96 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 7 (9.589 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 6 (8.219 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 5 (6.849 %) Lotus Domino 7 3 (4.110 %) IIS 8 1 (1.370 %) SharePoint 8 1 (1.370 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (1.370 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 23 (31.51 %) MS Office 2 7 (9.589 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.370 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 15 (20.55 %) TCP/IP 2 12 (16.44 %) SAN 3 7 (9.589 %) Firewall 3 7 (9.589 %) DNS 3 7 (9.589 %) WAN 4 6 (8.219 %) LAN 5 5 (6.849 %) LDAP 6 3 (4.110 %) DHCP 7 1 (1.370 %) PBX 7 1 (1.370 %) SNA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.740 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.370 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (5.479 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (4.110 %) NUnit	General 1 11 (15.07 %) Back Office 2 6 (8.219 %) Finance 3 4 (5.479 %) Health 3 4 (5.479 %) Retail 4 3 (4.110 %) Legal 4 3 (4.110 %) Government 5 1 (1.370 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.370 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.370 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 15 (20.55 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (17.81 %) Analyst 3 12 (16.44 %) Server Support 4 9 (12.33 %) Support Analyst 4 9 (12.33 %) 3rd Line Support 5 7 (9.589 %) Technical Support 5 7 (9.589 %) Helpdesk Operator 6 6 (8.219 %) Administrator 6 6 (8.219 %) Helpdesk Support 7 5 (6.849 %) Desktop Support 7 5 (6.849 %) Developer 7 5 (6.849 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (5.479 %) Wintel Engineer 8 4 (5.479 %) Senior Developer 8 4 (5.479 %) Server Engineer 9 3 (4.110 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 9 3 (4.110 %) Support Technician 9 3 (4.110 %) Infrastructure Analyst 9 3 (4.110 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 3 (4.110 %) Wintel Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.849 %) Smartcard 1 5 (6.849 %) PKI 2 2 (2.740 %) NHS 2 2 (2.740 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.370 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.370 %) AS400 3 1 (1.370 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 46 (63.01 %) Windows 2 19 (26.03 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (15.07 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (13.70 %) Linux 5 5 (6.849 %) UNIX 5 5 (6.849 %) NetWare 6 4 (5.479 %) Windows XP 7 1 (1.370 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.96 %) ITIL 2 4 (5.479 %) Change Management 3 3 (4.110 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (4.110 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (4.110 %) Migration 3 3 (4.110 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (2.740 %) Data Migration 4 2 (2.740 %) ITSM 4 2 (2.740 %) Project Management 4 2 (2.740 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.370 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.370 %) OOD 5 1 (1.370 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.370 %) Performance Management 5 1 (1.370 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 4 (5.479 %) C# 1 4 (5.479 %) SQL 1 4 (5.479 %) VBScript 2 3 (4.110 %) VB 2 3 (4.110 %) C++ 2 3 (4.110 %) JavaScript 2 3 (4.110 %) C 3 1 (1.370 %) Perl 3 1 (1.370 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 18 (24.66 %) MCSE 1 18 (24.66 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (10.96 %) MCP 3 3 (4.110 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (2.740 %) Degree 5 1 (1.370 %) CCNP 5 1 (1.370 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.370 %) ISEB 5 1 (1.370 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.740 %) SLA	System Software 1 24 (32.88 %) Active Directory 2 6 (8.219 %) MetaFrame 3 4 (5.479 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (2.740 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (1.370 %) NetBackup 5 1 (1.370 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 8 (10.96 %) ARCserve 2 5 (6.849 %) ZENworks 3 1 (1.370 %) MOM 3 1 (1.370 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 23 (31.51 %) Microsoft 2 12 (16.44 %) Lotus 3 9 (12.33 %) Citrix 4 6 (8.219 %) HP 5 3 (4.110 %) Intel 5 3 (4.110 %) VMware 6 2 (2.740 %) NetApp 6 2 (2.740 %) VERITAS 6 2 (2.740 %) Symantec 6 2 (2.740 %) Remedy 6 2 (2.740 %) Wyse 6 2 (2.740 %) Cisco 6 2 (2.740 %) IBM 7 1 (1.370 %) Sun 7 1 (1.370 %) SAP 7 1 (1.370 %) Compaq 7 1 (1.370 %) Dell 7 1 (1.370 %) 3Com