The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Devon 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 6 3 11
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 30 51 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 16.85% 28.18% 10.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.92% 83.61% 76.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 5
Average daily rate £300 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £159 £250 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £292
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
Average hourly rate £19.00 £14.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.56 £13.30 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £91.00 £18.80 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
39 61 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 21.91% 33.70% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 6
Average daily rate £300 £324 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +44.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £400 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £14.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -55.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
South West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Devon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Devon Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Devon Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Devon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Exeter +10 20 £218 -
Plymouth -8 4 £350 +7.69%
Barnstaple - 2 - -
Torquay - 1 £300 -
Windows
South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 22 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 19 (43.18%) Active Directory
3 18 (40.91%) VMware
3 18 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (25.00%) Linux
5 10 (22.73%) .NET
5 10 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (18.18%) SAN
6 8 (18.18%) C#
6 8 (18.18%) Java
6 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 8 (18.18%) ITIL
6 8 (18.18%) Web Services
6 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 8 (18.18%) Ajax
6 8 (18.18%) Silverlight
6 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
7 7 (15.91%) Migration
7 7 (15.91%) jQuery
7 7 (15.91%) XML
7 7 (15.91%) CSS
7 7 (15.91%) Python
7 7 (15.91%) Citrix
8 6 (13.64%) GIS
8 6 (13.64%) ESRI
8 6 (13.64%) ArcGIS
8 6 (13.64%) Publishing
8 6 (13.64%) ArcSDE
8 6 (13.64%) Data Management

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 10 (22.73%) .NET
2 8 (18.18%) Web Services
2 8 (18.18%) Ajax
2 8 (18.18%) Silverlight
3 7 (15.91%) jQuery
3 7 (15.91%) CSS
3 7 (15.91%) XML
4 6 (13.64%) XSD
4 6 (13.64%) J2EE
4 6 (13.64%) HTML
4 6 (13.64%) Servlets
4 6 (13.64%) ArcObjects
4 6 (13.64%) Dojo
4 6 (13.64%) Apache Flex
4 6 (13.64%) REST
5 2 (4.545%) LINQ
5 2 (4.545%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.273%) ASP
6 1 (2.273%) Middleware
6 1 (2.273%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.64%) ArcGIS
1 6 (13.64%) ArcSDE
2 4 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 3 (6.818%) IIS
3 3 (6.818%) Apache
3 3 (6.818%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.545%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.273%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.273%) WordPress
5 1 (2.273%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.818%) MS Office
3 2 (4.545%) Office 365
4 1 (2.273%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (4.545%) DNS
2 2 (4.545%) LDAP
2 2 (4.545%) Firewall
2 2 (4.545%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (4.545%) Network Security
3 1 (2.273%) NAS
3 1 (2.273%) DHCP
3 1 (2.273%) HTTP
3 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.273%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.273%) SSL
3 1 (2.273%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) GIS
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.545%) MySQL
4 1 (2.273%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.273%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.545%) Subversion
3 1 (2.273%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.273%) MSI
General
1 6 (13.64%) Publishing
2 2 (4.545%) Military
2 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.273%) Electronics
3 1 (2.273%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
1 9 (20.45%) Support Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Administrator
3 7 (15.91%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (13.64%) Server Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) GIS Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Windows Administrator
4 6 (13.64%) Windows Server Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 5 (11.36%) Server Support
6 4 (9.091%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Consultant
6 4 (9.091%) Server Support Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) IT Support
6 4 (9.091%) Windows Support Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.818%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.545%) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.545%) Thin Client
1 2 (4.545%) Clustering
1 2 (4.545%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.273%) iPhone
2 1 (2.273%) Open Source
2 1 (2.273%) iPad
2 1 (2.273%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.273%) VHDL
2 1 (2.273%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (2.273%) Social Network
2 1 (2.273%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.273%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 22 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 18 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (25.00%) Linux
4 10 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (13.64%) Windows XP
5 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.545%) Solaris
7 1 (2.273%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.273%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) ITIL
2 7 (15.91%) Migration
3 6 (13.64%) Data Management
3 6 (13.64%) Information Management
3 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 4 (9.091%) Service Management
5 2 (4.545%) PRINCE2
5 2 (4.545%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (2.273%) Operations Management
6 1 (2.273%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (2.273%) Data Migration
6 1 (2.273%) Analytics
6 1 (2.273%) MVC
6 1 (2.273%) SEO
6 1 (2.273%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) C#
1 8 (18.18%) Java
1 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 7 (15.91%) Python
3 3 (6.818%) SQL
4 2 (4.545%) PHP
5 1 (2.273%) C
5 1 (2.273%) VB
5 1 (2.273%) Perl
5 1 (2.273%) C++
5 1 (2.273%) Tcl
5 1 (2.273%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.273%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.818%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.545%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.545%) vSphere
4 1 (2.273%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.273%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.273%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) VMware
2 7 (15.91%) Citrix
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) ESRI
4 2 (4.545%) FalconStor
4 2 (4.545%) Oracle
4 2 (4.545%) Cisco
4 2 (4.545%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.273%) Motorola
5 1 (2.273%) NetApp
5 1 (2.273%) IBM
5 1 (2.273%) Sun
5 1 (2.273%) EMC
5 1 (2.273%) Google
5 1 (2.273%) Green Hills
5 1 (2.273%) Xilinx
5 1 (2.273%) Altera