The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aylesbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Aylesbury region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 19 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 73.08% 25.00% 33.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 82.61% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £425 - £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.61 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.00% -21.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Aylesbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
23 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aylesbury 88.46% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £388 - £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.61 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.00% -21.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
Buckinghamshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Aylesbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Aylesbury Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aylesbury Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Aylesbury region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aylesbury Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aylesbury Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Aylesbury region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aylesbury Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury 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 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) Perl
2 12 (42.86%) MySQL
3 11 (39.29%) VMware
4 10 (35.71%) Retail
5 9 (32.14%) VMware ESX
5 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
5 9 (32.14%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (28.57%) SQL
7 7 (25.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
9 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
9 5 (17.86%) Linux
9 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (10.71%) MS Project
11 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
11 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
11 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
11 3 (10.71%) QA
12 2 (7.143%) vSphere
12 2 (7.143%) MS Office
12 2 (7.143%) Windows XP
12 2 (7.143%) UNIX
12 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
12 2 (7.143%) Banking
13 1 (3.571%) Firewall
13 1 (3.571%) Scrum
13 1 (3.571%) ISEB

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aylesbury 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 1 (3.571%) HTML
1 1 (3.571%) .NET
1 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.571%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.71%) MS Project
3 2 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.571%) DNS
2 1 (3.571%) Firewall
2 1 (3.571%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) NUnit
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
1 1 (3.571%) WATIR
1 1 (3.571%) Selenium
1 1 (3.571%) WatiN
1 1 (3.571%) MSTest
General
1 10 (35.71%) Retail
2 2 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Support Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support
4 4 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Business Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Deployment Manager
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (7.143%) Consultant
6 2 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) IT Support
7 1 (3.571%) IT Technician
7 1 (3.571%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Network Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.143%) UNIX
3 2 (7.143%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
1 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
1 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
2 1 (3.571%) Automation Testing
2 1 (3.571%) BDD
2 1 (3.571%) Software Testing
2 1 (3.571%) ITIL
2 1 (3.571%) Scrum
2 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (3.571%) TDD
2 1 (3.571%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Perl
2 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.571%) PHP
5 1 (3.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) MCSE
1 1 (3.571%) ISEB
1 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.571%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) VMware ESX
1 9 (32.14%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.143%) vSphere
3 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) VMware
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
My client require a Desktop Support Analyst for a contract role in Aylesbury due to start ASAP! You will be providing Desktop support on hardware, Software and Networks...
Pertemps IT
Rate: £12.50 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Rate: £21 - £22000 per annum + pro rata
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