The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 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 Crawley 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 7
Rank 21 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.721% 0.743% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.38% 8.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £280 £275
% change year-on-year
-5.35% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +7.40%
All Operating Systems
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
26 24 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 17.69% 8.922% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 5
Average daily rate £400 £388 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -20.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.73% -32.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 7
West Sussex

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) SCCM
3 4 (40.00%) MS Office
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Application Packaging
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Lotus
5 2 (20.00%) InstallShield
5 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
6 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (10.00%) ERP
6 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
6 1 (10.00%) Citrix
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) MCP
6 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 1 (10.00%) UNIX
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (10.00%) Symantec
6 1 (10.00%) McAfee
6 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (30.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) InstallShield
2 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Packager
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) CCTV
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (10.00%) iSeries
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) ERP
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
1 1 (10.00%) Service Management
1 1 (10.00%) Change Management
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (10.00%) Time Management
1 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle