Windows Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 6 7 4
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 105 93 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 14.21% 10.70% 14.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.07% 49.21% 71.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 16
Average daily rate £300 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £124 £146 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 23
Average hourly rate £13.75 £12.38 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.74 £9.48 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £18.30 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
Search 54 Windows jobs in Leeds
All Operating Systems
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 214 189 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 28.96% 21.75% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 89 44
Average daily rate £275 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £156 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £375 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 23
Average hourly rate £26.50 £12.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.83% -28.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.56 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £17.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
West Yorkshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 74 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 56 (28.00%) Windows 7
3 54 (27.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 46 (23.00%) VMware
4 46 (23.00%) Active Directory
4 46 (23.00%) SQL Server
5 45 (22.50%) SQL
5 45 (22.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 40 (20.00%) Linux
7 38 (19.00%) Cisco
8 37 (18.50%) Windows XP
8 37 (18.50%) MS Exchange
9 36 (18.00%) UNIX
10 35 (17.50%) MS Excel
11 34 (17.00%) SAN
12 33 (16.50%) MS Office
13 32 (16.00%) Oracle
14 30 (15.00%) Firewall
15 28 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
17 25 (12.50%) ITIL
17 25 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
18 21 (10.50%) F5
19 20 (10.00%) Finance
20 19 (9.500%) Red Hat
20 19 (9.500%) LAN
21 18 (9.000%) WAN
21 18 (9.000%) MCSE
21 18 (9.000%) .NET
21 18 (9.000%) Java

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 18 (9.000%) .NET
2 16 (8.000%) J2EE
2 16 (8.000%) Web Services
3 12 (6.000%) XML
4 11 (5.500%) WebSphere
5 8 (4.000%) HTML
6 7 (3.500%) X-Windows
7 6 (3.000%) WCF
7 6 (3.000%) WinForms
8 5 (2.500%) LAMP
8 5 (2.500%) Middleware
8 5 (2.500%) ASP
8 5 (2.500%) JSP
8 5 (2.500%) XSLT
9 4 (2.000%) JDBC
9 4 (2.000%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.500%) SGML
10 3 (1.500%) Servlets
10 3 (1.500%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.500%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 37 (18.50%) MS Exchange
2 25 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 15 (7.500%) Apache
4 11 (5.500%) Tomcat
5 10 (5.000%) IIS
6 8 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (3.000%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (3.000%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (3.000%) BizTalk Server
7 6 (3.000%) IBM HTTP Server
8 5 (2.500%) SharePoint
9 4 (2.000%) MQSeries
10 3 (1.500%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (1.000%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (1.000%) ESB
11 2 (1.000%) Lotus Notes
11 2 (1.000%) WebLogic
11 2 (1.000%) SAS
12 1 (0.500%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.500%) WorkSite
Applications
1 35 (17.50%) MS Excel
2 33 (16.50%) MS Office
3 3 (1.500%) MS Project
3 3 (1.500%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.000%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.000%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.000%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.500%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (2.500%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.500%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.00%) SAN
2 30 (15.00%) Firewall
3 19 (9.500%) LAN
4 18 (9.000%) WAN
5 17 (8.500%) NAS
6 13 (6.500%) DNS
7 10 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (4.000%) BIG-IP
9 7 (3.500%) Internet
9 7 (3.500%) VPN
9 7 (3.500%) HTTP
9 7 (3.500%) DHCP
10 5 (2.500%) FTP
10 5 (2.500%) GPRS
10 5 (2.500%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.000%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.000%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.000%) VLAN
11 2 (1.000%) WAAS
12 1 (0.500%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.500%) MySQL
2 7 (3.500%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (3.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (3.000%) DB2
4 3 (1.500%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (1.500%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.500%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.500%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.500%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.500%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.500%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (3.000%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.000%) Introscope
3 3 (1.500%) MSI
3 3 (1.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (1.500%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.500%) WebDriver
3 3 (1.500%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.500%) Selenium
3 3 (1.500%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.000%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.500%) JUnit
5 1 (0.500%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.500%) Hudson
5 1 (0.500%) JIRA
5 1 (0.500%) Maven
5 1 (0.500%) Subversion
General
1 20 (10.00%) Finance
2 12 (6.000%) Retail
3 7 (3.500%) Legal
4 6 (3.000%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.500%) Banking
6 4 (2.000%) Games
7 3 (1.500%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.000%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.500%) Publishing
9 1 (0.500%) Law
9 1 (0.500%) Back Office
9 1 (0.500%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (28.00%) Analyst
2 26 (13.00%) Support Engineer
3 25 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 18 (9.000%) Developer
5 16 (8.000%) Service Analyst
5 16 (8.000%) Service Desk Analyst
6 15 (7.500%) 3rd Line Support
6 15 (7.500%) 2nd Line Support
7 14 (7.000%) Technical Support
8 12 (6.000%) 1st Line Support
8 12 (6.000%) Desktop Support
8 12 (6.000%) Architect
9 10 (5.000%) Help Desk Support
10 8 (4.000%) Messaging Analyst
10 8 (4.000%) Consultant
11 7 (3.500%) Administrator
11 7 (3.500%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (3.500%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (3.500%) 1st Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.000%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.000%) Blackberry
2 5 (2.500%) NHS
3 3 (1.500%) Replication
3 3 (1.500%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.000%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.000%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.000%) Firmware
4 2 (1.000%) Clustering
5 1 (0.500%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.500%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.500%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.500%) iPad
5 1 (0.500%) EqualLogic
5 1 (0.500%) CMDB
5 1 (0.500%) Beowulf
5 1 (0.500%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.500%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.500%) Celerra
5 1 (0.500%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.00%) Windows 7
2 54 (27.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 45 (22.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 40 (20.00%) Linux
5 37 (18.50%) Windows XP
6 36 (18.00%) UNIX
7 16 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (6.000%) Solaris
9 8 (4.000%) CentOS
9 8 (4.000%) Windows 8
9 8 (4.000%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (4.000%) HPUX
10 7 (3.500%) Windows 2000
11 5 (2.500%) AIX
12 3 (1.500%) NetWare
12 3 (1.500%) Windows Vista
12 3 (1.500%) Windows 2000 Server
13 2 (1.000%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.500%) Debian
14 1 (0.500%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (12.50%) ITIL
2 10 (5.000%) Configuration Management
3 9 (4.500%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (4.000%) Integration Testing
4 8 (4.000%) Project Management
5 7 (3.500%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (3.500%) Time Management
6 6 (3.000%) Software Testing
7 5 (2.500%) Change Management
7 5 (2.500%) Regression Testing
7 5 (2.500%) Service Management
7 5 (2.500%) CRM
7 5 (2.500%) E-Commerce
8 4 (2.000%) Problem Management
8 4 (2.000%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (2.000%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (2.000%) Manual Testing
8 4 (2.000%) Web Development
8 4 (2.000%) PRINCE2
8 4 (2.000%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.50%) SQL
2 18 (9.000%) Java
3 13 (6.500%) Perl
4 12 (6.000%) C#
5 10 (5.000%) PHP
6 7 (3.500%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.000%) Bash shell
7 6 (3.000%) VB
7 6 (3.000%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.500%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.000%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.500%) VBScript
10 3 (1.500%) C
10 3 (1.500%) Groovy
11 2 (1.000%) C++
12 1 (0.500%) VB6
12 1 (0.500%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.500%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.500%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (9.000%) MCSE
3 10 (5.000%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.500%) MCP
4 9 (4.500%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.000%) BC Cleared
6 4 (2.000%) ISEB
7 3 (1.500%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.500%) MCDST
7 3 (1.500%) Degree
7 3 (1.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.500%) MOS
8 2 (1.000%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.000%) VCP4
8 2 (1.000%) VCP5
8 2 (1.000%) CCNP
8 2 (1.000%) CCNA
8 2 (1.000%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.000%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.500%) SLA
2 4 (2.000%) QA
3 1 (0.500%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.500%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (23.00%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.000%) vSphere
4 3 (1.500%) XenApp
5 2 (1.000%) XenServer
5 2 (1.000%) VMware Server
5 2 (1.000%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.000%) vCloud
5 2 (1.000%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.500%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.500%) Xen
6 1 (0.500%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.500%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.500%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (5.500%) SCCM
2 8 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (3.000%) CA Wily
4 4 (2.000%) Splunk
5 3 (1.500%) ARCserve
5 3 (1.500%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.000%) PureDisk
6 2 (1.000%) OpenView
6 2 (1.000%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.000%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.500%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.500%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.500%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 74 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 46 (23.00%) VMware
3 38 (19.00%) Cisco
4 32 (16.00%) Oracle
5 21 (10.50%) F5
6 19 (9.500%) Red Hat
7 15 (7.500%) HP
8 12 (6.000%) Citrix
8 12 (6.000%) NetApp
9 11 (5.500%) IBM
10 8 (4.000%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.000%) Perforce
11 6 (3.000%) Blue Coat
12 4 (2.000%) JBoss
12 4 (2.000%) Symantec
12 4 (2.000%) McAfee
12 4 (2.000%) Apple
12 4 (2.000%) Novell
13 3 (1.500%) Sage
13 3 (1.500%) Terracotta
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