The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Terminal Services 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 of the System Software category for the Cambridgeshire 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
Microsoft Terminal Services
Rank - 54 46
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 0 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 1.158% 0.954%
As % of the System Software category - 10.81% 7.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £290 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £340 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £12.61 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+24.95% -9.96%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
80 74 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.57% 10.71% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 26
Average daily rate £310 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £210 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £383 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 24
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +69.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £47.50 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Terminal Services
East of England

Terminal Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Cambridgeshire Terminal Services Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Terminal Services across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Terminal Services Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Terminal Services Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Citrix
3 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
3 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (72.73%) VMware
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (63.64%) VB
4 7 (63.64%) MCSE
4 7 (63.64%) Remedy
4 7 (63.64%) MSI
4 7 (63.64%) InstallShield
5 6 (54.55%) Validation
5 6 (54.55%) VBScript
5 6 (54.55%) SLA
5 6 (54.55%) SCCM
6 5 (45.45%) AdminStudio
7 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
7 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
8 3 (27.27%) HP
8 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (18.18%) Clustering
9 2 (18.18%) AppSense
9 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (18.18%) XenApp
10 1 (9.091%) XenDesktop
10 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
10 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (9.091%) Lync

Terminal Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Lync
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) LDAP
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.091%) VLAN
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MSI
1 7 (63.64%) InstallShield
2 5 (45.45%) AdminStudio
3 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Applications Packager
2 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.091%) Solaris
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
4 1 (9.091%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.091%) IC Design
4 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) VB
2 6 (54.55%) VBScript
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) MCSE
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) XenApp
5 1 (9.091%) XenDesktop
5 1 (9.091%) NFS
5 1 (9.091%) Samba
5 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
5 1 (9.091%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) SCCM
2 1 (9.091%) AppManager
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) Remedy
4 3 (27.27%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) AppSense
6 1 (9.091%) Cadence
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco
6 1 (9.091%) Sun
6 1 (9.091%) CommVault
6 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
6 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint