The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 22 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 Liverpool 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 18 21 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 5 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 3.333% 5.319% 3.750%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.259% 18.52% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £175 £290 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.65% +65.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £286 £275
% change year-on-year
-7.34% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.81 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+2.15% +3.57%
All Operating Systems
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
54 54 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 36.00% 28.72% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 21
Average daily rate £310 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £437
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 5
Average hourly rate £11.00 £16.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £30.00 £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 7
Merseyside

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Liverpool Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 7 across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Liverpool Windows 7 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) Citrix
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
5 2 (28.57%) LAN
5 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) MS Office
5 2 (28.57%) VMware
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Replication
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Statistics
6 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 1 (14.29%) SCCM
6 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) SMS

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) SMS
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
1 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) VMware