The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cambridge 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
Fat Client
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
+28.07% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -7.86%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
87 115 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 25.89% 26.87% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 58 13
Average daily rate £263 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £410 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +240.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £15.00 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Fat Client
Cambridgeshire

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CCA
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
General
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCA
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) VMware