The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 22 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 Brighton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 15 17 16
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.692% 7.634% 7.519%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 74.07% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
Average daily rate £288 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.23% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £21.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
11 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.692% 10.31% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 2
Average daily rate £210 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £221 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £488 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £17.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
East Sussex

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 14 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) .NET
2 11 (34.38%) SAN
2 11 (34.38%) Firewall
3 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
4 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
4 9 (28.13%) C#
4 9 (28.13%) Windows 7
5 8 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (25.00%) Finance
5 8 (25.00%) VMware
5 8 (25.00%) Cisco
5 8 (25.00%) DNS
5 8 (25.00%) DHCP
6 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
6 7 (21.88%) ITIL
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (18.75%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (15.63%) vSphere
8 5 (15.63%) Windows Azure
8 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
8 5 (15.63%) SQL
8 5 (15.63%) LAN
8 5 (15.63%) Project Management
8 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (15.63%) Citrix
8 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 11 (34.38%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 4 (12.50%) COM+
3 3 (9.375%) WebSphere
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (6.250%) Web Services
4 2 (6.250%) REST
5 1 (3.125%) WCF
5 1 (3.125%) GWT
5 1 (3.125%) RESTful
5 1 (3.125%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (18.75%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Azure
4 4 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (12.50%) IIS
5 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
5 2 (6.250%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (3.125%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
2 4 (12.50%) Office 365
3 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 11 (34.38%) SAN
2 11 (34.38%) Firewall
3 8 (25.00%) DNS
3 8 (25.00%) DHCP
4 5 (15.63%) LAN
5 4 (12.50%) Internet
5 4 (12.50%) MPLS
5 4 (12.50%) NetScreen
5 4 (12.50%) VoIP
5 4 (12.50%) WAN
5 4 (12.50%) ADSL
6 3 (9.375%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.125%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) PhoneGap
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Support Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) IT Support
3 8 (25.00%) Developer
4 7 (21.88%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (18.75%) C# Developer
6 5 (15.63%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (12.50%) Architect
7 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
8 3 (9.375%) Support Engineer
9 2 (6.250%) Technical Support
9 2 (6.250%) Desktop Support
9 2 (6.250%) SharePoint Developer
9 2 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (6.250%) Technical Support Analyst
9 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (6.250%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
2 3 (9.375%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.125%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.125%) Replication
4 1 (3.125%) Handset
4 1 (3.125%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.125%) iPad
4 1 (3.125%) PaaS
4 1 (3.125%) iPhone
4 1 (3.125%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows 7
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.125%) Android
5 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Migration
3 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
3 5 (15.63%) Project Management
4 4 (12.50%) ITIL V2
4 4 (12.50%) MVC
4 4 (12.50%) TDD
5 2 (6.250%) Service Management
5 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.250%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.250%) Scrum
6 1 (3.125%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (3.125%) Release Management
6 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.125%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.125%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.125%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.125%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.125%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 1 (3.125%) VBA
3 1 (3.125%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) CCNA
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (12.50%) MCTS
2 4 (12.50%) MCITP
3 1 (3.125%) Degree
3 1 (3.125%) MCSE
3 1 (3.125%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
1 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) vSphere
3 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.125%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.125%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (9.375%) Backup Exec
3 2 (6.250%) HP SIM
3 2 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (15.63%) Citrix
4 4 (12.50%) CommVault
4 4 (12.50%) Lotus
4 4 (12.50%) EMC
4 4 (12.50%) Intel
5 3 (9.375%) ProCurve
5 3 (9.375%) HP
5 3 (9.375%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.375%) NetApp
5 3 (9.375%) Juniper
6 2 (6.250%) Altiris
6 2 (6.250%) F5