The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Hertfordshire 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
Fat Client
Rank - - 64
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - 0.471%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 2.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
+29.23% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
-26.82% -7.86%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
133 198 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.34% 20.56% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 77 63
Average daily rate £388 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £210 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.75 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.91% -41.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.97 £25.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Fat Client
East of England

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) SLA
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 4 (100.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) MCSE
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (50.00%) Wyse
3 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
4 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) WAAS
4 1 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) FWSM
4 1 (25.00%) CCEE
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) WAAS
2 1 (25.00%) FWSM
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Support
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CCEE
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCSA
2 1 (25.00%) CCSE
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) XenServer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (25.00%) Snort
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam
2 1 (25.00%) AppSense
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint