The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Gloucestershire 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
Fat Client
Rank 34 - 47
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 5 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.825% - 0.466%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.259% - 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+29.23% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-26.82% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
54 162 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 19.71% 23.34% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 88 35
Average daily rate £400 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £42.00 £23.85 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.10% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.54 £10.70 £19.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.00 £33.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Fat Client
South West

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Gloucestershire Fat Client Jobs Demand Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fat Client across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client.

1 9 (100.00%) C
1 9 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (88.89%) Lumension
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Sophos
2 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Citrix
2 8 (88.89%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) JSF
3 1 (11.11%) Ajax
3 1 (11.11%) Java EE
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
1 1 (11.11%) JSF
1 1 (11.11%) Ajax
1 1 (11.11%) Java EE
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) JPA
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) VPN
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Systems Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Project Management
1 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix
1 8 (88.89%) Juniper
1 8 (88.89%) Sophos
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
1 8 (88.89%) Lumension
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss