The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client over the 3 months to 24 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 Cardiff 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fat Client
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.543% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.381% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
42 44 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 22.83% 19.56% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 39
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £126 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £489 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.00 £14.78
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -5.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Fat Client
South Wales

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Cognos
3 1 (33.33%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ARCserve

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Cognos
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft