The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 8 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 East Midlands 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 8
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £213
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +48.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 - -
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
281 251 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 22.11% 18.36% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 108 79
Average daily rate £300 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 48 49
Average hourly rate £13.00 £14.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £57.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East Midlands Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 8 across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Windows 8 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) WMI
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Expression Blend
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Reactive Extensions
1 5 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (100.00%) Expression Blend
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft