The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Mobile 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 Mobile 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Rank 57 68 66
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Mobile 2 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.306% 0.415% 0.236%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.099% 1.887% 0.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £320 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
- +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £23.25 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -8.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £31.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-13.70% +13.76%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
182 212 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 27.83% 22.01% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 79 70
Average daily rate £338 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £185 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 37 58
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -17.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £11.00 £11.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Mobile
East of England

Windows Mobile
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Windows Mobile Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Windows Mobile Daily Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Windows Mobile Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows Mobile 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 Mobile.

1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows Mobile 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 Mobile. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Navision Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft