The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Terminal Services over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software category for the City of London 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Terminal Services
Rank 204 211 241
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +30
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 3 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.044% 0.117% 0.051%
As % of the System Software category 0.554% 1.475% 0.907%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £140 £431 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-67.53% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £160 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £550 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £340 £300
% change year-on-year
-41.17% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+45.83% -17.24%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
542 610 551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.870% 7.897% 5.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 349 329
Average daily rate £400 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £225 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 62 82
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% -1.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.99 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Terminal Services
London

Terminal Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

City of London Terminal Services Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Terminal Services across the City of London region.

City of London Terminal Services Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Terminal Services across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

City of London Terminal Services Daily Rate Histogram

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the City of London region.

City of London Terminal Services Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services.

1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 3 (37.50%) ADSL
5 3 (37.50%) LAN
5 3 (37.50%) MS Office
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Symantec
5 3 (37.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
5 3 (37.50%) WSUS
5 3 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (25.00%) Law
6 2 (25.00%) Legal
6 2 (25.00%) IIS
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management

Terminal Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (37.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (12.50%) Lync
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (37.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) ADSL
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) InstallShield
General
1 2 (25.00%) Law
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
1 1 (12.50%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
5 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (12.50%) Linux
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCDST
1 1 (12.50%) MCTS
1 1 (12.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) XenApp
3 2 (25.00%) XenDesktop
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) Symantec
5 2 (25.00%) Remedy
5 2 (25.00%) Apple
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco
6 1 (12.50%) Juniper
6 1 (12.50%) CommVault
6 1 (12.50%) Novell
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
City, London
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Posted: 12 June 2013