Windows Contracts in Hounslow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 23 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 Hounslow 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 11 8 10
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 13.56% 8.974% 5.634%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 58.33% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
Average daily rate £450 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+91.48% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 26 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 44.07% 15.38% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 10
Average daily rate £450 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £235 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £452 £500 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
London

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) Windows XP
3 12 (57.14%) Blackberry
3 12 (57.14%) LAN
3 12 (57.14%) Windows 7
4 11 (52.38%) Software Deployment
4 11 (52.38%) WAN
4 11 (52.38%) Lotus Notes
4 11 (52.38%) Lotus
5 10 (47.62%) Telecoms
5 10 (47.62%) Aerospace
6 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (28.57%) MCDST
7 6 (28.57%) MCP
8 5 (23.81%) Windows 8
9 4 (19.05%) Release Management
9 4 (19.05%) XNA
9 4 (19.05%) WPF
9 4 (19.05%) Silverlight
9 4 (19.05%) Open Source
9 4 (19.05%) Windows Phone
9 4 (19.05%) MVVM
9 4 (19.05%) Kinect
9 4 (19.05%) REST
9 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (19.05%) TDD
9 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
9 4 (19.05%) XAML
9 4 (19.05%) Linux

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 4 (19.05%) XNA
1 4 (19.05%) WPF
1 4 (19.05%) Silverlight
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) LAN
2 11 (52.38%) WAN
3 4 (19.05%) Internet
4 2 (9.524%) VPN
4 2 (9.524%) Network Security
5 1 (4.762%) Wireshark
5 1 (4.762%) 802.11
5 1 (4.762%) OSPF
5 1 (4.762%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.762%) LDAP
5 1 (4.762%) HTTP
5 1 (4.762%) RIP
5 1 (4.762%) Wireless
5 1 (4.762%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) GDB
General
1 10 (47.62%) Telecoms
1 10 (47.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Team Leader
1 5 (23.81%) Desktop Team Leader
2 4 (19.05%) Silverlight Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Tester
4 2 (9.524%) Desktop Support
4 2 (9.524%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.524%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Security Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Security Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Architect
5 1 (4.762%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Blackberry
2 4 (19.05%) Open Source
2 4 (19.05%) Kinect
3 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.524%) STB
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows XP
2 12 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 5 (23.81%) Windows 8
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Phone
4 4 (19.05%) Linux
5 3 (14.29%) UNIX
6 2 (9.524%) Debian
7 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.762%) Mac OS X
7 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.762%) Windows 2000
7 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Software Deployment
2 4 (19.05%) Release Management
2 4 (19.05%) MVVM
2 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (19.05%) TDD
2 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
3 2 (9.524%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (4.762%) Security Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (4.762%) Information Security
4 1 (4.762%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) XAML
1 4 (19.05%) C#
2 2 (9.524%) Python
2 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.524%) Bash shell
3 1 (4.762%) C
3 1 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (28.57%) MCDST
2 6 (28.57%) MCP
3 1 (4.762%) CISSP
3 1 (4.762%) MCSE
3 1 (4.762%) GCIA
3 1 (4.762%) GCIH
3 1 (4.762%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.762%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.762%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.762%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.762%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Lotus
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
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