The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Exeter 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
Rank 5 15 13
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 18 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 16.67% 6.780% 10.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 36.36% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
Average daily rate £260 - £210
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 - £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 - £292
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £14.50 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -52.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.21 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.84% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
24 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 22.22% 18.64% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 5
Average daily rate £285 £450 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +100.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £285 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £475 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £14.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -55.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
Devon

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Exeter Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exeter Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 15 (50.00%) VMware
2 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (43.33%) Windows 7
4 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (26.67%) Silverlight
4 8 (26.67%) Java
4 8 (26.67%) .NET
4 8 (26.67%) Linux
4 8 (26.67%) SAN
4 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (23.33%) ITIL
6 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio
6 6 (20.00%) CSS
6 6 (20.00%) Servlets
6 6 (20.00%) Web Services
6 6 (20.00%) XML
6 6 (20.00%) XSD
6 6 (20.00%) J2EE
6 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (20.00%) C#
6 6 (20.00%) HTML
6 6 (20.00%) Python
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) GIS
6 6 (20.00%) ESRI
6 6 (20.00%) ArcGIS
6 6 (20.00%) Publishing
6 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (20.00%) Dojo

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 8 (26.67%) Silverlight
1 8 (26.67%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) CSS
2 6 (20.00%) Servlets
2 6 (20.00%) Web Services
2 6 (20.00%) XML
2 6 (20.00%) XSD
2 6 (20.00%) J2EE
2 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 6 (20.00%) Dojo
2 6 (20.00%) Apache Flex
2 6 (20.00%) Ajax
2 6 (20.00%) ArcObjects
2 6 (20.00%) jQuery
2 6 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (3.333%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) ArcGIS
1 6 (20.00%) ArcSDE
2 2 (6.667%) IIS
2 2 (6.667%) Apache
2 2 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.667%) Firewall
2 2 (6.667%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (3.333%) NAS
3 1 (3.333%) Internet
3 1 (3.333%) LDAP
3 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.333%) DNS
3 1 (3.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) GIS
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.333%) MSI
General
1 6 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) GIS Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) IT Support
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Server Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.667%) Server Support
6 2 (6.667%) Desktop Support
6 2 (6.667%) Storage Consultant
6 2 (6.667%) Server Support Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (6.667%) Web Administrator
6 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Thin Client
1 2 (6.667%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (43.33%) Windows 7
3 8 (26.67%) Linux
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.667%) Solaris
7 1 (3.333%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) ITIL
2 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (20.00%) Data Management
2 6 (20.00%) Information Management
3 3 (10.00%) Service Management
4 2 (6.667%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.667%) Migration
5 1 (3.333%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (20.00%) C#
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.667%) vSphere
4 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.333%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) VMware
2 6 (20.00%) ESRI
2 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco
4 2 (6.667%) Citrix
4 2 (6.667%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.667%) FalconStor
5 1 (3.333%) NetApp
5 1 (3.333%) EMC
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle