The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chelmsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 21 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 Chelmsford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 13 12 9
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chelmsford 2.703% 2.326% 5.405%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.21 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.84% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Chelmsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chelmsford 8.108% 2.326% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £50.00 - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
Essex

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford region.

Chelmsford Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chelmsford Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chelmsford 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 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Siemens
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 2 (40.00%) UAG
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) SWIFT
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chelmsford 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 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) CTI
2 1 (20.00%) Intranet
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
3 1 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (20.00%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (40.00%) SWIFT
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) UAG
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Siemens
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Talend
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft