The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 18 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 Dorking 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 2 5 4
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 50.00% 19.05% 15.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
Average daily rate - £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.79% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Dorking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 50.00% 19.05% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
Average daily rate - £250 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows
Surrey

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorking 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 Dorking region.

Dorking 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 Dorking region.

Dorking Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Support Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Specialist
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) XenServer
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) IBM