The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 6 5 10
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 2 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 10.00% 4.762% 20.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £158 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 10.00% 4.762% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £158 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
Bedfordshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) DMZ
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) IIS
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Back Office
3 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) LAN

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Project
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) DMZ
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) VoIP
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Back Office
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Project Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) Change Management
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Forefront TMG
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (25.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco