The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 19 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 Erskine 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 2 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Windows 48 31 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 80.00% 72.09% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 0
Average daily rate £370 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.89% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.38 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.04% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
48 31 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 80.00% 72.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 0
Average daily rate £370 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.89% -
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 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
Renfrewshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine 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 Erskine region.

Erskine Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Erskine region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Erskine Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 65 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 42 (64.62%) Windows Server 2003
4 36 (55.38%) Windows XP
5 32 (49.23%) Microsoft
6 31 (47.69%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 30 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (26.15%) Telecoms
9 16 (24.62%) Veritas
9 16 (24.62%) SAN
10 14 (21.54%) Citrix
10 14 (21.54%) Netcool
10 14 (21.54%) Solaris
10 14 (21.54%) XML
10 14 (21.54%) Clustering
10 14 (21.54%) Test Scripting
10 14 (21.54%) Security Architecture
11 13 (20.00%) Windows 7
11 13 (20.00%) McAfee
11 13 (20.00%) HP
11 13 (20.00%) TestDirector
12 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
12 12 (18.46%) VBScript
12 12 (18.46%) SharePoint
12 12 (18.46%) VMware
13 11 (16.92%) Service Management
13 11 (16.92%) HP Quality Center
13 11 (16.92%) SharePoint Server
13 11 (16.92%) AIX
13 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Certification

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 Development
1 14 (21.54%) XML
2 10 (15.38%) .NET
3 8 (12.31%) .NET Framework
3 8 (12.31%) XML Schema
4 4 (6.154%) HTML
4 4 (6.154%) XSL
5 2 (3.077%) Ajax
5 2 (3.077%) MooTools
5 2 (3.077%) XSLT
6 1 (1.538%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (18.46%) SharePoint
2 11 (16.92%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (4.615%) IIS
4 2 (3.077%) MS Project Server
4 2 (3.077%) Apache
4 2 (3.077%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.538%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) MS Office
2 6 (9.231%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.077%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.62%) SAN
2 8 (12.31%) DHCP
2 8 (12.31%) TCP/IP
3 6 (9.231%) NAS
3 6 (9.231%) DNS
4 3 (4.615%) Internet
4 3 (4.615%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (4.615%) MySQL
4 2 (3.077%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) TestDirector
2 8 (12.31%) StarTeam
3 4 (6.154%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (6.154%) WinRunner
General
1 17 (26.15%) Telecoms
2 9 (13.85%) Manufacturing
3 8 (12.31%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (12.31%) Desktop Engineer
1 8 (12.31%) Build Engineer
1 8 (12.31%) Tester
2 7 (10.77%) Consultant
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Build Engineer
4 5 (7.692%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.615%) Architect
5 3 (4.615%) Management Consultant
5 3 (4.615%) Configuration Management Consultant
6 2 (3.077%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (3.077%) Operations Consultant
7 1 (1.538%) Administrator
7 1 (1.538%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) Project Planner
7 1 (1.538%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) Design Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) Server Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Clustering
2 9 (13.85%) SaaS
3 8 (12.31%) Cryptography
4 7 (10.77%) Taxonomies
5 6 (9.231%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.692%) PDA
7 3 (4.615%) Smartcard
7 3 (4.615%) Thin Client
7 3 (4.615%) Fat Client
7 3 (4.615%) CMDB
7 3 (4.615%) PKI
8 1 (1.538%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 42 (64.62%) Windows Server 2003
2 36 (55.38%) Windows XP
3 30 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (21.54%) Solaris
5 13 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 11 (16.92%) AIX
7 10 (15.38%) Linux
8 6 (9.231%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.538%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.54%) Test Scripting
1 14 (21.54%) Security Architecture
2 11 (16.92%) Service Management
3 9 (13.85%) ERP
3 9 (13.85%) Configuration Management
3 9 (13.85%) Software Distribution
4 7 (10.77%) Document Management
5 5 (7.692%) Software Deployment
5 5 (7.692%) Migration
5 5 (7.692%) Information Security
5 5 (7.692%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (6.154%) Test Automation
6 4 (6.154%) Release Management
7 3 (4.615%) Information Assurance
8 2 (3.077%) Software Testing
8 2 (3.077%) Change Management
8 2 (3.077%) Workflow
8 2 (3.077%) Performance Management
8 2 (3.077%) Load Balancing
8 2 (3.077%) Earned Value Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) VBScript
2 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
3 6 (9.231%) SQL
3 6 (9.231%) C#
3 6 (9.231%) Java
3 6 (9.231%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.154%) Korn
4 4 (6.154%) XPath
4 4 (6.154%) Perl
4 4 (6.154%) Bourne shell
5 3 (4.615%) VB.NET
5 3 (4.615%) Jython
6 2 (3.077%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (12.31%) MCP
5 3 (4.615%) CISSP
5 3 (4.615%) MCSE
5 3 (4.615%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.077%) MCTS
7 1 (1.538%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) SLA
2 1 (1.538%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.231%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.154%) VMware ESX
4 3 (4.615%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (3.077%) vSphere
6 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.538%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 31 (47.69%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 14 (21.54%) Netcool
3 11 (16.92%) HP Quality Center
4 7 (10.77%) Tivoli
5 6 (9.231%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (6.154%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 3 (4.615%) HP SiteScope
7 3 (4.615%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (1.538%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 1 (1.538%) OpenView
8 1 (1.538%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.62%) Veritas
3 14 (21.54%) Citrix
4 13 (20.00%) McAfee
4 13 (20.00%) HP
5 12 (18.46%) VMware
6 11 (16.92%) Lumension
7 8 (12.31%) Borland
8 4 (6.154%) EMC
8 4 (6.154%) Sophos
9 3 (4.615%) Symantec
9 3 (4.615%) Oracle
9 3 (4.615%) Wyse
10 1 (1.538%) IBM
10 1 (1.538%) Brocade