The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 96 84 99
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +15
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 7 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.459% 0.629% 0.324%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.928% 3.333% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
Average daily rate £350 £281 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.44% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £327 £276 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £286 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £333 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.29% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £35.75 £29.75
% change year-on-year
-18.88% +20.16%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
363 300 339
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 23.79% 18.86% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 117 135
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £545 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 62
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £14.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £38.75 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Client/Server
South East

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Southampton -2 4 £350 +21.73%
Farnborough - 1 £325 -
Client/Server
South East

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 12 (60.00%) HTML
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (60.00%) CSS
1 12 (60.00%) OO
2 11 (55.00%) ASP.NET
2 11 (55.00%) N-Tier
2 11 (55.00%) Visual Studio
2 11 (55.00%) T-SQL
2 11 (55.00%) VB
2 11 (55.00%) VB.NET
2 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (55.00%) Ajax
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 11 (55.00%) jQuery
2 11 (55.00%) Unit Testing
3 10 (50.00%) Highcharts JS
3 10 (50.00%) JSUnit
3 10 (50.00%) Aquila
3 10 (50.00%) Telerik
3 10 (50.00%) NUnit
3 10 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 10 (50.00%) IIS
3 10 (50.00%) Oracle
3 10 (50.00%) OOD
3 10 (50.00%) UML
4 8 (40.00%) Data Security
5 4 (20.00%) Web Development
5 4 (20.00%) Windows

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (60.00%) HTML
1 12 (60.00%) CSS
2 11 (55.00%) ASP.NET
2 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 11 (55.00%) Ajax
2 11 (55.00%) jQuery
3 10 (50.00%) Highcharts JS
4 2 (10.00%) WinForms
4 2 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (5.000%) XML
5 1 (5.000%) JSP
5 1 (5.000%) SOAP
5 1 (5.000%) Cocoa
5 1 (5.000%) JSON
5 1 (5.000%) iOS SDK
5 1 (5.000%) RESTful
5 1 (5.000%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 10 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
1 1 (5.000%) DNS
1 1 (5.000%) Internet
1 1 (5.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) MySQL
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (50.00%) JSUnit
2 10 (50.00%) NUnit
2 10 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (5.000%) Xcode
3 1 (5.000%) Subversion
3 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Military
2 1 (5.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (25.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) WinForms Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Operations Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Security Manager
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile Games
3 1 (5.000%) CESG
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) OO
2 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (55.00%) Unit Testing
3 10 (50.00%) OOD
3 10 (50.00%) UML
4 8 (40.00%) Data Security
5 4 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.000%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (5.000%) Information Security
7 1 (5.000%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.000%) Change Management
7 1 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.000%) Service Management
7 1 (5.000%) Asset Management
7 1 (5.000%) Data Management
7 1 (5.000%) TDD
7 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (55.00%) T-SQL
2 11 (55.00%) VB
2 11 (55.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (5.000%) C++
5 1 (5.000%) C
5 1 (5.000%) PHP
5 1 (5.000%) SQL
5 1 (5.000%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.000%) GIAC
3 1 (5.000%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
1 2 (10.00%) SCOM
1 2 (10.00%) MOM
1 2 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Aquila
1 10 (50.00%) Telerik
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (5.000%) CA
4 1 (5.000%) Apple
4 1 (5.000%) Lumension
4 1 (5.000%) Facebook
4 1 (5.000%) Twitter