Microsoft App-V Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software category for the Berkshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 107 123 126
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 18 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.729% 0.385% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 6.383% 5.172% 0.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 0
Average daily rate £425 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £286
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £33.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-42.42% +37.50%
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 282 232 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.42% 7.436% 8.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 79 97
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £234 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 22
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £30.77
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -34.99%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Microsoft App-V
South East

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Berkshire Microsoft App-V Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Microsoft App-V Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +18 16 £450 -
Maidenhead - 2 £325 -
Microsoft App-V
South East

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V.

1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (86.36%) Windows
3 16 (72.73%) Citrix
4 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (50.00%) SCCM
5 10 (45.45%) Windows 7
6 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
7 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
7 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (36.36%) VMware
8 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
8 7 (31.82%) Windows XP
8 7 (31.82%) MS Office
8 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (22.73%) Finance
9 5 (22.73%) SQL
9 5 (22.73%) HP
10 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
10 4 (18.18%) VPN
10 4 (18.18%) Internet
10 4 (18.18%) Migration
10 4 (18.18%) FrontRange
10 4 (18.18%) XenApp
11 3 (13.64%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 3 (13.64%) Application Packaging
11 3 (13.64%) vSphere
11 3 (13.64%) Software Distribution
11 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (13.64%) MSI
11 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (13.64%) Application Packaging
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
1 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET
2 2 (9.091%) CSS
2 2 (9.091%) HTML
2 2 (9.091%) WinForms
2 2 (9.091%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
1 7 (31.82%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
1 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 3 (13.64%) LAN
2 3 (13.64%) WAN
2 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MSI
2 2 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (9.091%) InstallShield
2 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Applications Packager
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Service Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Applications Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) IT Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
2 2 (9.091%) Clustering
3 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Windows 7
3 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (31.82%) Windows XP
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (13.64%) Mac OS X
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Migration
2 3 (13.64%) Software Distribution
3 2 (9.091%) ITIL
3 2 (9.091%) Data Migration
4 1 (4.545%) Service Management
4 1 (4.545%) ITSM
4 1 (4.545%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
3 2 (9.091%) VBScript
3 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) XenApp
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (13.64%) vSphere
5 1 (4.545%) XenServer
5 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.545%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (13.64%) Unicenter
3 2 (9.091%) ChangeBASE
3 2 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (72.73%) Citrix
3 8 (36.36%) VMware
4 5 (22.73%) HP
5 4 (18.18%) FrontRange
6 3 (13.64%) Remedy
6 3 (13.64%) CA
6 3 (13.64%) Royalblue
7 2 (9.091%) Dell
7 2 (9.091%) Clearswift
8 1 (4.545%) Avaya
8 1 (4.545%) Brocade
8 1 (4.545%) EMC
8 1 (4.545%) Cisco
8 1 (4.545%) Autodesk
1st Line Service Desk Analyst
Reading, Berkshire
TECHNICAL SKILLS Sound understanding of Service Desk toolsets (VMWare Service Manager (VSM), Touchpaper, CA Unicentre, RoyalBlue, Frontrange, Remedy, etc.) Practical experience in supporting at a 1st line level,...
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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