The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Terminal Services over the 3 months to 20 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 System Software category for the Kent 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Terminal Services
Rank 38 - 37
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 2 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.667% - 2.540%
As % of the System Software category 3.077% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £340 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £12.61 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+24.95% -9.96%
All System Software
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
65 30 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.67% 11.11% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 37
Average daily rate £438 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.09% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
Average hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.09% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £19.10 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £59.50 £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Terminal Services
South East

Terminal Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Kent Terminal Services Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Terminal Services across the Kent region.

Kent Terminal Services Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Kent region.

Kent Terminal Services Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Services within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 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
Maidstone - 1 - -
Terminal Services
South East

Terminal Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) Citrix
3 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
4 6 (66.67%) Firewall
4 6 (66.67%) IPsec
4 6 (66.67%) IPv6
4 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (66.67%) PKI
4 6 (66.67%) SCOM
4 6 (66.67%) VBScript
4 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
4 6 (66.67%) VPN
4 6 (66.67%) DHCP
4 6 (66.67%) Juniper
4 6 (66.67%) HP
5 5 (55.56%) Dell
5 5 (55.56%) EMC
5 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 5 (55.56%) LAN
5 5 (55.56%) WLAN
5 5 (55.56%) WAN
5 5 (55.56%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (33.33%) Release Management
7 2 (22.22%) Windows Vista

Terminal Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
1 2 (22.22%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) IPv6
2 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) IPsec
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) WLAN
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) HTTP
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
General
1 2 (22.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Desktop Support
3 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Project Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Server Support Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Server Support
5 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
5 2 (22.22%) Analyst
5 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (22.22%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (55.56%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Vista
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) VBScript
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Citrix
3 6 (66.67%) Juniper
3 6 (66.67%) HP
4 5 (55.56%) Dell
4 5 (55.56%) EMC
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Symantec