The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Bedfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fat Client
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.053% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.651% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
43 49 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.63% 18.01% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 14
Average daily rate £350 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £248 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £473 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £12.42 £42.50 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.77% +295.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Fat Client
East of England

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Bedfordshire Fat Client Jobs Demand Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client.

1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) IP Telephony
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) TickIT
2 3 (60.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) IP Telephony
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) TickIT
1 3 (60.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware