The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Vista 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 Windows Vista over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Vista
Rank 185 183 198
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +15
Contract jobs citing Windows Vista 18 34 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.280% 0.432% 0.393%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.430% 2.173% 2.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 23
Average daily rate £125 £240 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-47.91% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £203 £250
% change year-on-year
+35.80% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £23.75 £17.75 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.80% +14.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.15 £14.35 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.35 £33.40 £24.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £12.53 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+11.73% +0.24%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1259 1565 1847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.59% 19.91% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 974 1231
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 96 106
Average hourly rate £30.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Vista
London

Windows Vista
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Windows Vista Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Windows Vista Daily Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Windows Vista Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Windows Vista Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Windows Vista Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (90.00%) Windows 7
3 20 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 19 (63.33%) MS Office
4 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (60.00%) Windows XP
5 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
6 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (46.67%) MS Exchange
8 13 (43.33%) DHCP
8 13 (43.33%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (40.00%) VMware
9 12 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (40.00%) DNS
9 12 (40.00%) MS Excel
10 11 (36.67%) Citrix
10 11 (36.67%) Exchange Server 2003
11 10 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
11 10 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (26.67%) VPN
14 7 (23.33%) VMware ESXi
15 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
15 6 (20.00%) SLA
15 6 (20.00%) Cisco
15 6 (20.00%) MCP
16 5 (16.67%) MCSA
16 5 (16.67%) ITIL
16 5 (16.67%) Internet
16 5 (16.67%) Mac OS X

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 14 (46.67%) MS Exchange
2 13 (43.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (36.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (13.33%) IIS
5 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (6.667%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (3.333%) Apache
7 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
7 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (3.333%) Lync
Applications
1 19 (63.33%) MS Office
2 12 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (3.333%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) DHCP
2 12 (40.00%) DNS
3 8 (26.67%) VPN
4 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (16.67%) Internet
6 4 (13.33%) LAN
6 4 (13.33%) VoIP
7 3 (10.00%) ADSL
7 3 (10.00%) SMTP
7 3 (10.00%) FTP
7 3 (10.00%) HTTP
7 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
7 3 (10.00%) NNTP
7 3 (10.00%) Firewall
7 3 (10.00%) Wireless
8 1 (3.333%) SSL
8 1 (3.333%) WAN
8 1 (3.333%) DMZ
8 1 (3.333%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MSI
1 1 (3.333%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (3.333%) Finance
1 1 (3.333%) Law
1 1 (3.333%) Legal
1 1 (3.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 10 (33.33%) Analyst
3 9 (30.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Desktop Support
5 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (3.333%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Help Desk Support
8 1 (3.333%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Team Leader
8 1 (3.333%) Project Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Support Team Leader
8 1 (3.333%) Desktop Analyst
8 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.333%) PDA
2 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.333%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (90.00%) Windows 7
3 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 18 (60.00%) Windows XP
5 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (16.67%) Mac OS X
7 2 (6.667%) Windows 8
8 1 (3.333%) Windows NT
8 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
8 1 (3.333%) Android
8 1 (3.333%) Mac OS
8 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) ITIL
1 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 3 (10.00%) Change Management
2 3 (10.00%) Information Management
3 1 (3.333%) Migration
3 1 (3.333%) Problem Management
3 1 (3.333%) Time Management
3 1 (3.333%) Performance Management
3 1 (3.333%) Software Distribution
3 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.333%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (20.00%) MCP
3 5 (16.67%) MCSA
3 5 (16.67%) MCDST
3 5 (16.67%) MCTS
4 4 (13.33%) MCSE
5 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.333%) CCNA
6 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.333%) Degree
6 1 (3.333%) MCITP
6 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.333%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (23.33%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.00%) Terminal Services
4 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.333%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) WSUS
2 2 (6.667%) SCCM
3 1 (3.333%) DameWare
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (40.00%) VMware
3 11 (36.67%) Citrix
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (10.00%) SAP
5 3 (10.00%) Apple
5 3 (10.00%) Symantec
6 2 (6.667%) Lotus
6 2 (6.667%) Remedy
7 1 (3.333%) Sophos
7 1 (3.333%) Juniper
7 1 (3.333%) HP
7 1 (3.333%) Maconomy
7 1 (3.333%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.333%) ProCurve
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