The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client over the 3 months to 17 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 Bristol 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Thin Client
Rank 49 60 48
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -12
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.187% 0.118% 0.155%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.111% 0.730% 0.877%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+29.23% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-26.82% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
90 137 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 16.85% 16.12% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 91 45
Average daily rate £338 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £237 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £451 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £32.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.81% +60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Thin Client
South West

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Thin Client Jobs Demand Trend

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Thin 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 Thin Client.

1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) PABX
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) DameWare
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Thin 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 Thin Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) PABX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Assistant
1 1 (50.00%) Help Desk Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix