The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Hammersmith 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
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 24.24% 26.83% 10.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 57.89% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
Average daily rate £255 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.51% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8 19 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 24.24% 46.34% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 1
Average daily rate £255 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.51% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
London

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hammersmith Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (33.33%) UNIX
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
5 3 (25.00%) Sun
5 3 (25.00%) Solaris
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
5 3 (25.00%) Retail
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) SCCM
5 3 (25.00%) SCOM
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Infoblox
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) vCloud
6 2 (16.67%) IaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) PowerShell

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 2 (16.67%) Web Services
1 2 (16.67%) WSH
2 1 (8.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) CloudStack
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) Wireless
2 1 (8.333%) iSCSI
2 1 (8.333%) NAS
2 1 (8.333%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.333%) 802.11
2 1 (8.333%) VPN
2 1 (8.333%) LAN
2 1 (8.333%) VoIP
2 1 (8.333%) WAN
2 1 (8.333%) SMTP
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Manager
3 1 (8.333%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Open Source
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
1 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (8.333%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) UNIX
4 3 (25.00%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.333%) OO
4 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Management
4 1 (8.333%) Kanban
4 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (8.333%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) VBScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (8.333%) PHP
3 1 (8.333%) Ruby
3 1 (8.333%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) MCSE
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Xen
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) vCloud
3 2 (16.67%) NFS
4 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.333%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
1 3 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (8.333%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (8.333%) Puppet
2 1 (8.333%) Splunk
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (8.333%) Cobbler
2 1 (8.333%) Nagios
2 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
2 1 (8.333%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 3 (25.00%) Sun
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) Brocade
4 1 (8.333%) ProCurve
4 1 (8.333%) BMC
4 1 (8.333%) Dell