The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 8 over the 3 months to 20 June 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.773% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.660% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £180 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £213
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +48.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £26.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 - -
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
188 260 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 29.06% 26.40% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 97 74
Average daily rate £308 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £185 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 32 51
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.63 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows 8
East of England

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hertfordshire Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 8 across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Windows 8 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 8
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Bishop's Stortford - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Hertford - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Watford - - - - 1
Windows 8
East of England

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) Veeam
3 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) MS Office
3 3 (50.00%) Apple
3 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Symantec
3 3 (50.00%) McAfee
3 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (50.00%) Sophos
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) CSS3
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Axure RP
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
1 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Veeam
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Apple
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec
2 3 (50.00%) McAfee
2 3 (50.00%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe