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Windows Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills
Browse 8 Windows job vacancies in Chester

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 24 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 18.60% 12.39% 10.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 42.42% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
Average daily rate £300 £390 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £390 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £390 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £28.75 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+105.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.38 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.04% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 40 33 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 31.01% 29.20% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 12
Average daily rate £300 £388 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +29.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £330 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £550 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
Cheshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Chester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Chester Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 25 (36.23%) Windows 7
2 22 (31.88%) ITIL
3 17 (24.64%) UNIX
3 17 (24.64%) SCCM
4 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (23.19%) Migration
5 14 (20.29%) VMware
5 14 (20.29%) Linux
5 14 (20.29%) Windows XP
5 14 (20.29%) MS Office
5 14 (20.29%) Citrix
5 14 (20.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (15.94%) DNS
6 11 (15.94%) Clustering
6 11 (15.94%) Finance
7 10 (14.49%) PRINCE2
8 9 (13.04%) Windows 2000
8 9 (13.04%) Red Hat
8 9 (13.04%) SAN
8 9 (13.04%) Local Government
8 9 (13.04%) Hyper-V
9 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
9 8 (11.59%) HP
9 8 (11.59%) DHCP
9 8 (11.59%) AIX
9 8 (11.59%) SharePoint
9 8 (11.59%) Project Management
9 8 (11.59%) Service Management
9 8 (11.59%) Banking
10 7 (10.14%) Change Management

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 7 (10.14%) CSS
1 7 (10.14%) HTML
2 4 (5.797%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (5.797%) LINQ to SQL
2 4 (5.797%) WCF
2 4 (5.797%) LINQ
2 4 (5.797%) .NET Framework
2 4 (5.797%) .NET
2 4 (5.797%) Web Services
2 4 (5.797%) XML
2 4 (5.797%) ASP.NET
2 4 (5.797%) WinForms
3 3 (4.348%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.449%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.797%) MS Exchange
2 4 (5.797%) IIS
3 3 (4.348%) CMS
4 2 (2.899%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.449%) Apache
5 1 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.449%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 14 (20.29%) MS Office
2 6 (8.696%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.449%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.449%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.348%) SAP R/3
2 2 (2.899%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) DNS
2 9 (13.04%) SAN
3 8 (11.59%) DHCP
4 3 (4.348%) Intranet
5 2 (2.899%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.899%) LAN
6 1 (1.449%) Firewall
6 1 (1.449%) LDAP
6 1 (1.449%) ADSL
6 1 (1.449%) Broadband
6 1 (1.449%) ISDN
6 1 (1.449%) WAN
6 1 (1.449%) SMTP
6 1 (1.449%) HTTP
6 1 (1.449%) SNMP
6 1 (1.449%) SSL
6 1 (1.449%) VLAN
6 1 (1.449%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.797%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (5.797%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (5.797%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.449%) DB2
3 1 (1.449%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.449%) MSI
General
1 11 (15.94%) Finance
2 9 (13.04%) Local Government
3 8 (11.59%) Banking
4 6 (8.696%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.449%) Retail
5 1 (1.449%) Law
5 1 (1.449%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Wintel Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Project Manager
2 10 (14.49%) Analyst
3 6 (8.696%) Build Engineer
4 5 (7.246%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (7.246%) Wintel Specialist
4 5 (7.246%) Wintel Analyst
5 4 (5.797%) Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 4 (5.797%) .NET Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (5.797%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (4.348%) Server Engineer
6 3 (4.348%) Web Editor
6 3 (4.348%) Test Manager
6 3 (4.348%) Desktop Support
6 3 (4.348%) Administrator
6 3 (4.348%) Web Content Editor
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Clustering
2 6 (8.696%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.348%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.449%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.449%) PMI
4 1 (1.449%) CMDB
4 1 (1.449%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.23%) Windows 7
2 17 (24.64%) UNIX
3 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (20.29%) Linux
4 14 (20.29%) Windows XP
4 14 (20.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (13.04%) Windows 2000
6 8 (11.59%) AIX
7 6 (8.696%) Windows 8
7 6 (8.696%) Tru64
7 6 (8.696%) Windows NT
8 2 (2.899%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.449%) Solaris
9 1 (1.449%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.449%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) ITIL
2 16 (23.19%) Migration
3 10 (14.49%) PRINCE2
4 8 (11.59%) Project Management
4 8 (11.59%) Service Management
5 7 (10.14%) Change Management
6 6 (8.696%) Configuration Management
7 4 (5.797%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (4.348%) Service Delivery
9 2 (2.899%) Project Planning
9 2 (2.899%) PRINCE
9 2 (2.899%) CRM
10 1 (1.449%) Critical Path Analysis
10 1 (1.449%) Disaster Recovery
10 1 (1.449%) Problem Management
10 1 (1.449%) Test Management
10 1 (1.449%) Change Control
10 1 (1.449%) Network Management
10 1 (1.449%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.696%) SQL
3 6 (8.696%) VB
4 4 (5.797%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.797%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.449%) CCNA
1 1 (1.449%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (1.449%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (1.449%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (1.449%) PMI Certification
1 1 (1.449%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.899%) QA
2 1 (1.449%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Hyper-V
2 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.14%) XenApp
3 6 (8.696%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.246%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (7.246%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 5 (7.246%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (2.899%) PowerHA
5 2 (2.899%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) SCCM
2 6 (8.696%) SCOM
3 5 (7.246%) Tivoli
4 3 (4.348%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.899%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) VMware
1 14 (20.29%) Citrix
2 9 (13.04%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.59%) HP
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.696%) Remedy
6 5 (7.246%) Symantec
7 4 (5.797%) Oracle
7 4 (5.797%) AppSense
8 3 (4.348%) SAP
9 2 (2.899%) Fujitsu
9 2 (2.899%) McAfee
10 1 (1.449%) Cisco
10 1 (1.449%) IBM
10 1 (1.449%) Avaya
10 1 (1.449%) Dell
10 1 (1.449%) NetApp
10 1 (1.449%) Veritas
10 1 (1.449%) Brocade
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