The first table below looks at the demand for Windows CE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows CE 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Cheshire 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
Microsoft Windows CE (WinCE)
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows CE 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.408% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.531% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £238
% change year-on-year
-23.07% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -1.58%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
196 211 305
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.67% 26.05% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 185
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £184 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.06% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.94 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows CE
North West

Windows CE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Windows CE Jobs Demand Trend

Windows CE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows CE across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Windows CE Daily Rate Trend

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Windows CE Hourly Rate Trend

Windows CE
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Windows CE 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 CE.

1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) MFC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XSL
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) PhD
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) XPath
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) SQLite
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development

Windows CE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Windows CE 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 CE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) MFC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XSL
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQLite
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Applications Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) PhD