The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Vista skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Vista over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Vista
Rank - 20 20
Contract jobs citing Windows Vista 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - 0.840% 0.752%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 3.125% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £206 £218
% change year-on-year
+33.49% -5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £12.52 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+11.86% +0.12%
All Operating Systems
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
40 32 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 18.60% 26.89% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 7
Average daily rate £335 £335 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +31.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +141.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £17.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.90 £43.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Vista
Surrey

Windows Vista
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Windows Vista Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Windows Vista Daily Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Windows Vista Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee