The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Operating Systems category for the Bradford 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 Windows
Rank 7 6 12
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 23 28 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 14.84% 17.28% 10.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.50% 66.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
Average daily rate £250 £113 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+122.22% -70.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
Average hourly rate £13.84 £32.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.43% +51.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.21 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.84% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
40 42 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 25.81% 25.93% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 2
Average daily rate £250 £164 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.67% -56.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
Average hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.07% +51.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
West Yorkshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bradford Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 (36.96%) Windows 7
2 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 15 (32.61%) VMware
3 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (19.57%) SAN
4 9 (19.57%) Oracle
4 9 (19.57%) UNIX
5 8 (17.39%) Migration
5 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (15.22%) ITIL
6 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
6 7 (15.22%) Citrix
7 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (13.04%) SQL
8 5 (10.87%) Wireless
8 5 (10.87%) Application Packaging
8 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (10.87%) MCSE
8 5 (10.87%) MCSA
8 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
8 5 (10.87%) HP
8 5 (10.87%) Cisco
9 4 (8.696%) VoIP
9 4 (8.696%) CCNA
9 4 (8.696%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (8.696%) Lotus
9 4 (8.696%) NHS
9 4 (8.696%) Windows XP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 5 (10.87%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.174%) .NET
2 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.174%) JMS
2 1 (2.174%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.696%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (8.696%) Lotus Domino
2 4 (8.696%) MS Exchange
3 3 (6.522%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.174%) AquaLogic Service Bus
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (2.174%) AquaLogic
5 1 (2.174%) ESB
5 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.174%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
1 4 (8.696%) MS Office
2 2 (4.348%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) SAN
2 5 (10.87%) Wireless
3 4 (8.696%) VoIP
3 4 (8.696%) Firewall
4 3 (6.522%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.348%) VPN
6 1 (2.174%) VLAN
6 1 (2.174%) NAS
6 1 (2.174%) DNS
6 1 (2.174%) SSL
6 1 (2.174%) Broadband
6 1 (2.174%) LAN
6 1 (2.174%) WAN
6 1 (2.174%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.348%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.348%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.348%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 3 (6.522%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Service Desk Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Service Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Consultant
3 6 (13.04%) Support Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (10.87%) Applications Packager
5 4 (8.696%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.522%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Senior Support Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Security Consultant
6 3 (6.522%) Architect
7 2 (4.348%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.348%) DBA
7 2 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Storage Consultant
7 2 (4.348%) Desktop Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Information Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) NHS
2 3 (6.522%) Replication
3 2 (4.348%) Clustering
4 1 (2.174%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows 7
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (19.57%) UNIX
4 4 (8.696%) Windows XP
4 4 (8.696%) Windows 8
5 3 (6.522%) Linux
6 2 (4.348%) HPUX
7 1 (2.174%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.174%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Migration
2 7 (15.22%) ITIL
3 4 (8.696%) Information Security
4 2 (4.348%) Project Management
4 2 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (4.348%) Information Governance
5 1 (2.174%) Network Management
5 1 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.174%) Service Management
5 1 (2.174%) Change Management
5 1 (2.174%) Validation
5 1 (2.174%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.174%) BPEL
5 1 (2.174%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.174%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (4.348%) PL/SQL
2 2 (4.348%) C
3 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.174%) Perl
3 1 (2.174%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (10.87%) MCSE
2 5 (10.87%) MCSA
3 4 (8.696%) CCNA
3 4 (8.696%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.348%) MCITP
5 1 (2.174%) MCTS
5 1 (2.174%) MCP
5 1 (2.174%) CCA
5 1 (2.174%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.696%) vSphere
4 3 (6.522%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.522%) XenApp
5 2 (4.348%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.174%) XenServer
6 1 (2.174%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.174%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 1 (2.174%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.174%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) VMware
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 9 (19.57%) Oracle
4 7 (15.22%) Citrix
5 5 (10.87%) HP
5 5 (10.87%) Cisco
6 4 (8.696%) Lotus
6 4 (8.696%) SAP
6 4 (8.696%) Altiris
7 3 (6.522%) LANDesk
8 2 (4.348%) Brocade
8 2 (4.348%) 3PAR
9 1 (2.174%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.174%) Symantec
9 1 (2.174%) Sophos
9 1 (2.174%) Adobe
9 1 (2.174%) IBM
9 1 (2.174%) Avaya
9 1 (2.174%) Juniper
9 1 (2.174%) Dell
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