The first table below looks at the demand for Windows CE 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 Windows CE 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows CE (WinCE)
Rank 498 530 535
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows CE 12 28 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.029% 0.052% 0.066%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.134% 0.255% 0.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 8
Average daily rate £250 £373 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.88% +7.97%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £238
% change year-on-year
-23.07% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
Average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +4.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £29.75
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +4.20%
All Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8967 10980 11886
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 21.57% 20.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4854 5639 5947
Average daily rate £370 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 933 1096 1187
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows CE
UK

Windows CE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Windows CE Jobs Demand Trend

Windows CE
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Windows CE Daily Rate Trend

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Windows CE Hourly Rate Trend

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Windows CE Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows CE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows CE within the England 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
North West +16 4 £250 -42.85%
East of England +14 3 - -
South East +20 2 - -
Yorkshire -1 2 - -
West Midlands 0 1 £325 -
Windows CE
UK

Windows CE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows CE 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 CE.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) C++
3 10 (52.63%) C#
3 10 (52.63%) Windows Mobile
4 9 (47.37%) C
5 7 (36.84%) Android
6 6 (31.58%) Java
6 6 (31.58%) SQL
7 5 (26.32%) .NET
7 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (26.32%) CSS
7 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
7 5 (26.32%) HTML5
7 5 (26.32%) Mobile App
8 4 (21.05%) WCF
8 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
8 4 (21.05%) Web Services
8 4 (21.05%) Linux
8 4 (21.05%) Python
8 4 (21.05%) Windows XP
9 3 (15.79%) LAN
9 3 (15.79%) PhD
9 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
9 3 (15.79%) OO
9 3 (15.79%) VC++
9 3 (15.79%) XSL
9 3 (15.79%) XSLT
9 3 (15.79%) MFC
9 3 (15.79%) MS Office

Windows CE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows CE 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 CE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
1 5 (26.32%) CSS
1 5 (26.32%) HTML5
2 4 (21.05%) WCF
2 4 (21.05%) Web Services
3 3 (15.79%) XSL
3 3 (15.79%) XSLT
3 3 (15.79%) Servlets
3 3 (15.79%) MFC
3 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.79%) jQuery
3 3 (15.79%) JSON
4 2 (10.53%) CSS3
4 2 (10.53%) Qt
4 2 (10.53%) GTK+
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 1 (5.263%) JDBC
5 1 (5.263%) J2EE
5 1 (5.263%) Flash
5 1 (5.263%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) WAN
1 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 1 (5.263%) SMS
2 1 (5.263%) GSM
2 1 (5.263%) RTCP
2 1 (5.263%) RTP
2 1 (5.263%) RFID
2 1 (5.263%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQLite
2 1 (5.263%) GIS
General
1 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Developer
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Applications Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Mobile Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Web Applications Developer
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Web Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
5 1 (5.263%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Mobile Software Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) AS400
3 1 (5.263%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.263%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Mobile
3 7 (36.84%) Android
4 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Windows XP
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Vista
6 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (10.53%) Windows 8
7 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.263%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) OO
1 3 (15.79%) MVC
1 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
1 3 (15.79%) Web Development
1 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
1 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.263%) TDD
3 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) E-business
3 1 (5.263%) UML
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) C++
2 10 (52.63%) C#
3 9 (47.37%) C
4 6 (31.58%) Java
4 6 (31.58%) SQL
5 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
6 4 (21.05%) Python
7 3 (15.79%) Embedded C
7 3 (15.79%) Embedded C++
7 3 (15.79%) XPath
7 3 (15.79%) VC++
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) PhD
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.263%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Citrix
2 1 (5.263%) Mapinfo
2 1 (5.263%) ESRI
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) HP
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