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Windows Contracts in Cheltenham
 
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Browse 6 Windows job vacancies in Cheltenham

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheltenham 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 6 4
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 24 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 29.63% 18.55% 23.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 82.76% 65.71% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 15
Average daily rate £325 £413 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% +23.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £375 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Average hourly rate £13.75 £20.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.92% -44.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.38 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.04% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 29 35 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 35.80% 28.23% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 19
Average daily rate £325 £475 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.57% +41.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £388 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% -44.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
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Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) DV Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
3 15 (34.88%) Windows XP
4 13 (30.23%) VMware
4 13 (30.23%) Windows 7
5 12 (27.91%) Active Directory
6 11 (25.58%) Finance
7 10 (23.26%) Degree
8 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (20.93%) Mac OS X
8 9 (20.93%) Apple
8 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (20.93%) VMware ESX
8 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
8 9 (20.93%) ITIL
9 8 (18.60%) Service Management
10 7 (16.28%) MSI
10 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
11 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2003
11 6 (13.95%) Mac OS X Server
11 6 (13.95%) XenApp
11 6 (13.95%) Windows Vista
11 6 (13.95%) Software Packaging
11 6 (13.95%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (13.95%) Client/Server
11 6 (13.95%) MS Exchange
12 5 (11.63%) Citrix
12 5 (11.63%) HNC
12 5 (11.63%) Application Packaging

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 6 (13.95%) Software Packaging
2 5 (11.63%) Application Packaging
3 2 (4.651%) WCF
3 2 (4.651%) Middleware
3 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.651%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (13.95%) MS Exchange
2 3 (6.977%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (4.651%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (4.651%) GlassFish
3 2 (4.651%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.651%) Windows Azure
3 2 (4.651%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (9.302%) MS Office
2 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.651%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.977%) Firewall
2 2 (4.651%) MPLS
2 2 (4.651%) SAN
2 2 (4.651%) DHCP
2 2 (4.651%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.651%) DNS
3 1 (2.326%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.651%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (4.651%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (4.651%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (4.651%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) MSI
2 2 (4.651%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.326%) TestDirector
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.651%) Avionics
3 2 (4.651%) Electronics
3 2 (4.651%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Support Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Desktop Support
3 6 (13.95%) Applications Packager
4 4 (9.302%) Mac Engineer
4 4 (9.302%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.977%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.651%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.651%) Software Design Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Windows Administrator
6 2 (4.651%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.651%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (4.651%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.651%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (4.651%) IT Support
6 2 (4.651%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Client/Server
2 3 (6.977%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.651%) PaaS
3 2 (4.651%) IaaS
4 1 (2.326%) Clustering
4 1 (2.326%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.88%) Windows XP
2 13 (30.23%) Windows 7
3 9 (20.93%) Mac OS X
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (13.95%) Mac OS X Server
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Vista
5 4 (9.302%) UNIX
6 2 (4.651%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.651%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.651%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.651%) Solaris
6 2 (4.651%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) ITIL
2 8 (18.60%) Service Management
3 5 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (9.302%) Time Management
4 4 (9.302%) Migration
5 3 (6.977%) Load Balancing
6 2 (4.651%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.651%) OO
6 2 (4.651%) CRM
7 1 (2.326%) Scrum
7 1 (2.326%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (2.326%) Software Deployment
7 1 (2.326%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.326%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.326%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.651%) C#
2 2 (4.651%) C++
2 2 (4.651%) SQL
2 2 (4.651%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.326%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) DV Cleared
3 10 (23.26%) Degree
4 5 (11.63%) HNC
5 4 (9.302%) SC Cleared
5 4 (9.302%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.651%) MCAD
6 2 (4.651%) MCSD
7 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (20.93%) VMware ESX
3 6 (13.95%) XenApp
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (4.651%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.23%) VMware
3 9 (20.93%) Apple
4 5 (11.63%) Citrix
5 4 (9.302%) Oracle
5 4 (9.302%) Cisco
6 2 (4.651%) Borland
6 2 (4.651%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.651%) Adobe
6 2 (4.651%) Sun
7 1 (2.326%) HP
7 1 (2.326%) Altiris
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