The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2012 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 Server 2012 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 Server 2012
Rank 364 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 151 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.363% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.684% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 84 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.23 - -
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 Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

England Windows Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the England region.

England Windows Server 2012 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Windows Server 2012 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2012
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the England region.

England Windows Server 2012 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2012
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Windows Server 2012 Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2012
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 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
London - 79 £395 -
South East - 35 £340 -
East of England - 9 £346 -
West Midlands - 7 £168 -
Yorkshire - 7 £265 -
East Midlands - 4 £238 -
North West - 4 £150 -
South West - 3 £340 -
Midlands - 3 £200 -
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Server 2012 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 Server 2012.

1 187 (100.00%) Windows
2 137 (73.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 94 (50.27%) Microsoft
4 92 (49.20%) VMware
5 78 (41.71%) Active Directory
6 76 (40.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 67 (35.83%) VMware Infrastructure
8 57 (30.48%) MS Exchange
9 54 (28.88%) SQL
10 49 (26.20%) Hyper-V
11 45 (24.06%) SQL Server
12 42 (22.46%) Citrix
12 42 (22.46%) Exchange Server 2010
13 35 (18.72%) Firewall
14 34 (18.18%) PowerShell
15 33 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
15 33 (17.65%) HP
15 33 (17.65%) Cisco
16 32 (17.11%) Linux
17 30 (16.04%) Windows 8
18 28 (14.97%) SAN
19 26 (13.90%) Migration
19 26 (13.90%) Windows 7
20 24 (12.83%) vSphere
20 24 (12.83%) DNS
21 23 (12.30%) IIS
21 23 (12.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
22 22 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
22 22 (11.76%) SCOM
22 22 (11.76%) ITIL

Windows Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Server 2012 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 Server 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (7.487%) .NET
2 8 (4.278%) WF
3 7 (3.743%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.743%) ASP.NET
3 7 (3.743%) WCF
4 6 (3.209%) jQuery
4 6 (3.209%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (3.209%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 6 (3.209%) CSS
4 6 (3.209%) XML
4 6 (3.209%) WSH
5 5 (2.674%) Web Services
6 4 (2.139%) XSL
6 4 (2.139%) XSLT
6 4 (2.139%) ADO.NET
6 4 (2.139%) JSON
6 4 (2.139%) LINQ
6 4 (2.139%) LINQ to SQL
6 4 (2.139%) REST
6 4 (2.139%) Task Parallel Library
Application Platforms
1 57 (30.48%) MS Exchange
2 42 (22.46%) Exchange Server 2010
3 23 (12.30%) IIS
4 22 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
5 21 (11.23%) SharePoint
6 15 (8.021%) Exchange Server 2013
7 13 (6.952%) Exchange Server 2003
8 10 (5.348%) Lync
9 8 (4.278%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (3.743%) SharePoint 2010
11 5 (2.674%) Confluence
12 4 (2.139%) Windows Azure
12 4 (2.139%) Apache
12 4 (2.139%) Tomcat
12 4 (2.139%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (1.070%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (1.070%) RabbitMQ
14 1 (0.535%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.535%) Exchange Server 5.5
14 1 (0.535%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (6.952%) MS Excel
2 8 (4.278%) MS Office
3 1 (0.535%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.535%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (1.070%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.535%) LatentZero
2 1 (0.535%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.72%) Firewall
2 28 (14.97%) SAN
3 24 (12.83%) DNS
4 22 (11.76%) VLAN
5 20 (10.70%) WAN
6 18 (9.626%) LAN
6 18 (9.626%) DHCP
7 12 (6.417%) VPN
7 12 (6.417%) Wireless
8 10 (5.348%) SMTP
8 10 (5.348%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (4.813%) Kerberos
10 8 (4.278%) VoIP
11 7 (3.743%) NAS
12 6 (3.209%) MPLS
12 6 (3.209%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.674%) IPsec
13 5 (2.674%) WLAN
13 5 (2.674%) SNMP
14 4 (2.139%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.06%) SQL Server
2 33 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (10.70%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (5.348%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (2.674%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (2.139%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (2.139%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.139%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (1.604%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.604%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.604%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.604%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.070%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (1.070%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.535%) PerformancePoint
9 1 (0.535%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.535%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (8.556%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (2.674%) JIRA
3 4 (2.139%) NUnit
3 4 (2.139%) CruiseControl
3 4 (2.139%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.139%) MSI
3 4 (2.139%) WiX
3 4 (2.139%) MSBuild
4 3 (1.604%) InstallShield
5 2 (1.070%) ClearCase
5 2 (1.070%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.070%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.070%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.070%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 2 (1.070%) MSTest
5 2 (1.070%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.535%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.535%) Selenium
6 1 (0.535%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 12 (6.417%) Finance
2 4 (2.139%) Manufacturing
2 4 (2.139%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.070%) Marketing
3 2 (1.070%) Electronics
4 1 (0.535%) Back Office
4 1 (0.535%) Banking
4 1 (0.535%) Retail
4 1 (0.535%) Billing
Job Titles
1 27 (14.44%) Consultant
2 20 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (9.626%) Server Engineer
4 16 (8.556%) Architect
4 16 (8.556%) Analyst
5 11 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
6 10 (5.348%) 3rd Line Support
7 8 (4.278%) Developer
7 8 (4.278%) Deployment Engineer
8 7 (3.743%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.743%) Rollout Engineer
9 6 (3.209%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.209%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.209%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 6 (3.209%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
10 5 (2.674%) Build Engineer
11 4 (2.139%) Release Engineer
11 4 (2.139%) Windows Server Engineer
11 4 (2.139%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (2.139%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.952%) Clustering
2 12 (6.417%) EqualLogic
3 8 (4.278%) Blackberry
4 4 (2.139%) NHS
4 4 (2.139%) Replication
5 3 (1.604%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.070%) EPoS
6 2 (1.070%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.070%) DTV
6 2 (1.070%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.070%) PKI
7 1 (0.535%) Statistics
7 1 (0.535%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.535%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.535%) CMDB
7 1 (0.535%) Wiki
7 1 (0.535%) Blog
7 1 (0.535%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.535%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.535%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 187 (100.00%) Windows
2 137 (73.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 76 (40.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 32 (17.11%) Linux
5 30 (16.04%) Windows 8
6 26 (13.90%) Windows 7
7 23 (12.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (10.16%) CentOS
9 17 (9.091%) Windows XP
10 8 (4.278%) UNIX
11 7 (3.743%) Solaris
12 4 (2.139%) Windows 2000
12 4 (2.139%) Windows 2000 Server
12 4 (2.139%) Windows Vista
13 2 (1.070%) Android
13 2 (1.070%) Debian
13 2 (1.070%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.535%) VMS
14 1 (0.535%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.535%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (13.90%) Migration
2 22 (11.76%) ITIL
3 14 (7.487%) Capacity Planning
4 12 (6.417%) Configuration Management
4 12 (6.417%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (5.882%) Scrum
5 11 (5.882%) Load Balancing
6 10 (5.348%) Network Load Balancing
7 8 (4.278%) Workflow
7 8 (4.278%) Project Management
8 6 (3.209%) MVC
8 6 (3.209%) PRINCE2
9 5 (2.674%) Information Security
9 5 (2.674%) Incident Management
9 5 (2.674%) Compatibility Testing
10 4 (2.139%) Release Management
10 4 (2.139%) MVVM
10 4 (2.139%) Performance Management
10 4 (2.139%) Kanban
10 4 (2.139%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.88%) SQL
2 34 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.348%) C#
4 9 (4.813%) VBScript
5 8 (4.278%) VB
6 7 (3.743%) Python
7 6 (3.209%) Perl
8 4 (2.139%) Java
8 4 (2.139%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.604%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.070%) C++
10 2 (1.070%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.070%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.535%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.348%) MCSE
4 7 (3.743%) HP AIS
5 6 (3.209%) Degree
5 6 (3.209%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.674%) CCNA
6 5 (2.674%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.139%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.139%) ISEB
8 3 (1.604%) MCTS
8 3 (1.604%) MCITP
8 3 (1.604%) HP ASE
9 2 (1.070%) CCNP
9 2 (1.070%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.535%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.535%) MCSA
10 1 (0.535%) MCT
10 1 (0.535%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.487%) QA
2 4 (2.139%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.604%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.070%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.535%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (41.71%) Active Directory
2 67 (35.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (26.20%) Hyper-V
4 24 (12.83%) vSphere
5 17 (9.091%) XenApp
6 14 (7.487%) XenServer
7 13 (6.952%) VMware ESX
8 5 (2.674%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (2.139%) XenDesktop
9 4 (2.139%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (1.070%) UAG
10 2 (1.070%) vCloud
10 2 (1.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (1.070%) Terminal Server
10 2 (1.070%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.535%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.535%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 22 (11.76%) Backup Exec
1 22 (11.76%) SCOM
2 18 (9.626%) SCCM
3 14 (7.487%) WSUS
3 14 (7.487%) SCVMM
4 6 (3.209%) HP SIM
5 5 (2.674%) BladeLogic
6 4 (2.139%) Puppet
6 4 (2.139%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 4 (2.139%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (1.604%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.070%) Splunk
8 2 (1.070%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.535%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.535%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.535%) WMI
Vendors
1 94 (50.27%) Microsoft
2 92 (49.20%) VMware
3 42 (22.46%) Citrix
4 33 (17.65%) Cisco
4 33 (17.65%) HP
5 16 (8.556%) Dell
6 13 (6.952%) NetApp
6 13 (6.952%) Red Hat
7 12 (6.417%) Symantec
8 11 (5.882%) F5
8 11 (5.882%) Broadcom
9 8 (4.278%) 3PAR
9 8 (4.278%) Veeam
10 7 (3.743%) IBM
11 6 (3.209%) EMC
11 6 (3.209%) Nortel
11 6 (3.209%) Websense
11 6 (3.209%) Perforce
11 6 (3.209%) NETGEAR
12 5 (2.674%) Oracle
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Rate: £320 per day
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Rate: £450 - £500 per day
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