The first table below looks at the demand for Business Desktop Deployment skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Desktop Deployment 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 Systems Management category for the England 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 Business Desktop Deployment (BDD)
Rank 530 546 577
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.011% 0.006% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.164% 0.087% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £190 - £358
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3048 3441 3430
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.962% 6.490% 5.999%
Number of daily rates quoted 1757 1739 1691
Average daily rate £375 £350 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £482 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 167 229
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -12.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.10 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+25.71% -27.08%
Business Desktop Deployment
UK

Business Desktop Deployment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

England Business Desktop Deployment Jobs Demand Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment across the England region.

England Business Desktop Deployment Daily Rate Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment across the England region.

England Business Desktop Deployment Hourly Rate Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London - 4 - -
East of England - - - -
Business Desktop Deployment
UK

Business Desktop Deployment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Business Desktop Deployment 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 Business Desktop Deployment.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) VBScript
2 4 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (66.67%) InstallShield
2 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (66.67%) Sysprep
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) SMS
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Ant
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile

Business Desktop Deployment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Business Desktop Deployment 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 Business Desktop Deployment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) JMX
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) CSS3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMS
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) InstallShield
2 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) EasyMock
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Content Management
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VBScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
1 4 (66.67%) Sysprep
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft