The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leamington Spa 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 Leamington Spa 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 3 6 1
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 18.75% 5.263% 50.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 33.33% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £91 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -17.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Leamington Spa
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 18.75% 15.79% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £91 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-81.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -17.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
Warwickshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leamington Spa 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 Leamington Spa region.

Leamington Spa 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 Leamington Spa region.

Leamington Spa Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leamington Spa 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 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) MOM
2 1 (20.00%) SQL

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leamington Spa 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.

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Help Desk Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support
2 1 (20.00%) SAN Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
1 1 (20.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) HP