Windows 7 Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Chester 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
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 18 17 21
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 7 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.036% 3.419% 1.840%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.46% 11.43% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £336 £200 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.12% -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £287 £265
% change year-on-year
-5.84% +8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
Search 1 Windows 7 jobs in Chester
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 52 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 37.41% 29.91% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 13
Average daily rate £300 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+203.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 7
Cheshire

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Chester Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 7 across the Chester region.

Chester Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Chester region.

Chester Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Chester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Chester Windows 7 Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 31 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Windows XP
3 9 (29.03%) Migration
4 8 (25.81%) Local Government
4 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (25.81%) PRINCE2
4 8 (25.81%) Citrix
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 7 (22.58%) SCCM
6 6 (19.35%) XenApp
6 6 (19.35%) Banking
6 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
6 6 (19.35%) Service Management
6 6 (19.35%) Finance
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (19.35%) MS Office
6 6 (19.35%) VB
6 6 (19.35%) UNIX
6 6 (19.35%) Linux
6 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
6 6 (19.35%) Symantec
6 6 (19.35%) Blackberry
6 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
7 5 (16.13%) AppSense
7 5 (16.13%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (9.677%) Application Packaging
8 3 (9.677%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.677%) Project Management
8 3 (9.677%) Remedy

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.677%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.226%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Office
2 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MSI
General
1 8 (25.81%) Local Government
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Build Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (9.677%) Technical Support
3 3 (9.677%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (9.677%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (9.677%) Test Manager
3 3 (9.677%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (9.677%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.452%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.452%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.452%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.452%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (6.452%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) IT Support
4 2 (6.452%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.226%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.226%) Technical Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Windows XP
3 6 (19.35%) UNIX
3 6 (19.35%) Linux
4 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (9.677%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Migration
2 8 (25.81%) PRINCE2
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL
4 6 (19.35%) Service Management
5 3 (9.677%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.677%) Project Management
6 1 (3.226%) Test Management
6 1 (3.226%) PRINCE
6 1 (3.226%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) XenApp
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (16.13%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (3.226%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Citrix
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
2 6 (19.35%) Symantec
3 5 (16.13%) AppSense
4 3 (9.677%) Remedy
4 3 (9.677%) McAfee
5 2 (6.452%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.452%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.226%) HP
6 1 (3.226%) Dell
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