The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Leeds 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
Thin Client
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.538% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.484% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+29.23% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
-26.82% -7.86%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
161 135 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 21.64% 15.03% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 70 72
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
Average hourly rate £11.75 £12.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% +13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.78 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 £19.10 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Thin Client
West Yorkshire

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Thin Client across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Leeds Thin Client Jobs Demand Trend

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Thin Client across the Leeds region.

Leeds Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Thin Client across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Thin Client Daily Rate Histogram

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Thin Client across the Leeds region.

Leeds Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Thin Client 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 Thin Client.

1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (60.00%) XenApp
4 2 (40.00%) XenServer
4 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (40.00%) AppSense
4 2 (40.00%) Wyse
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) iPhone
5 1 (20.00%) Xen
5 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) iPad
5 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (20.00%) Apple
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) VBScript
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Thin Client 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 Thin Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (20.00%) iPad
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) XenApp
2 2 (40.00%) XenServer
2 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) Xen
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Wyse
2 2 (40.00%) AppSense
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft