The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the London 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
Thin Client
Rank 347 358 415
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +57
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 30 57 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.139% 0.212% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.417% 0.659% 0.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 17
Average daily rate £375 £400 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -38.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £310 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £586 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
Average hourly rate £17.00 £39.00 £27.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.41% +43.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £32.20 £19.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £45.80 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thin Client within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +7 8 £500 +5.26%
Ealing - 1 £325 -
Greenwich - 1 £350 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £303 -
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 72 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 55 (76.39%) Citrix
3 46 (63.89%) Windows
4 37 (51.39%) Active Directory
5 30 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 26 (36.11%) VMware
7 22 (30.56%) MS Office
8 21 (29.17%) Windows XP
9 19 (26.39%) VMware Infrastructure
9 19 (26.39%) Windows 7
10 17 (23.61%) Linux
11 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (20.83%) HP
13 14 (19.44%) XenDesktop
14 13 (18.06%) XenApp
15 12 (16.67%) MCSE
16 11 (15.28%) MS Exchange
17 10 (13.89%) Blackberry
17 10 (13.89%) Microsoft App-V
17 10 (13.89%) AppSense
18 9 (12.50%) VMware ESX
18 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
18 9 (12.50%) SCCM
19 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
19 8 (11.11%) CCEE
19 8 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
19 8 (11.11%) CCA
19 8 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
19 8 (11.11%) Lotus
19 8 (11.11%) Red Hat

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Development
1 3 (4.167%) XML
2 2 (2.778%) Silverlight
2 2 (2.778%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.389%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) MS Exchange
2 8 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
3 5 (6.944%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (5.556%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (4.167%) Apache
6 2 (2.778%) Lync
7 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 22 (30.56%) MS Office
2 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 3 (4.167%) MS Project
4 1 (1.389%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.389%) Office 365
4 1 (1.389%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.389%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.722%) SAN
1 7 (9.722%) TCP/IP
1 7 (9.722%) VPN
2 6 (8.333%) DNS
3 5 (6.944%) WAN
3 5 (6.944%) LAN
4 4 (5.556%) LDAP
4 4 (5.556%) DHCP
4 4 (5.556%) Firewall
5 2 (2.778%) NAS
5 2 (2.778%) VoIP
5 2 (2.778%) SSL
5 2 (2.778%) Internet
6 1 (1.389%) Intranet
6 1 (1.389%) Wireless
6 1 (1.389%) CTI
6 1 (1.389%) PABX
6 1 (1.389%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.778%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (2.778%) DTS
2 2 (2.778%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (2.778%) MSI
General
1 7 (9.722%) Finance
1 7 (9.722%) Banking
2 4 (5.556%) Back Office
3 3 (4.167%) Publishing
3 3 (4.167%) Retail
3 3 (4.167%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.389%) Advertising
5 1 (1.389%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Analyst
2 8 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 7 (9.722%) Architect
3 7 (9.722%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (9.722%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (8.333%) Citrix Engineer
4 6 (8.333%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.333%) Service Analyst
5 5 (6.944%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (6.944%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.944%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.944%) IT Support
6 4 (5.556%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.167%) Technical Support
7 3 (4.167%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.167%) Administrator
7 3 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.167%) Citrix Administrator
7 3 (4.167%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 72 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 10 (13.89%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.167%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.778%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.778%) Derivative
4 2 (2.778%) iPhone
4 2 (2.778%) iPad
4 2 (2.778%) NHS
4 2 (2.778%) Equities
5 1 (1.389%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.389%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.389%) Clustering
5 1 (1.389%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.389%) PDA
5 1 (1.389%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.389%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 46 (63.89%) Windows
2 21 (29.17%) Windows XP
3 19 (26.39%) Windows 7
4 17 (23.61%) Linux
5 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (11.11%) SUSE
6 4 (5.556%) Windows Vista
6 4 (5.556%) UNIX
7 3 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.778%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.389%) Solaris
9 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.389%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (9.722%) ITIL
2 6 (8.333%) Project Management
3 5 (6.944%) Migration
3 5 (6.944%) Service Management
3 5 (6.944%) Problem Management
4 4 (5.556%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (5.556%) Change Management
5 3 (4.167%) Service Delivery
5 3 (4.167%) PRINCE2
6 2 (2.778%) Data Analysis
6 2 (2.778%) Asset Management
6 2 (2.778%) TDD
6 2 (2.778%) Incident Management
6 2 (2.778%) Unit Testing
6 2 (2.778%) Data Protection
6 2 (2.778%) BDD
6 2 (2.778%) Waterfall
6 2 (2.778%) ETL
6 2 (2.778%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.389%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.722%) SQL
2 4 (5.556%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.167%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.778%) XPath
4 2 (2.778%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.778%) VBScript
4 2 (2.778%) C
5 1 (1.389%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (16.67%) MCSE
3 8 (11.11%) CCEE
3 8 (11.11%) CCA
3 8 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
3 8 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
4 5 (6.944%) MCP
5 3 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (2.778%) Degree
6 2 (2.778%) MCITP
6 2 (2.778%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.778%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.778%) ISEB
7 1 (1.389%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.944%) SLA
2 3 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 37 (51.39%) Active Directory
2 19 (26.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (19.44%) XenDesktop
4 13 (18.06%) XenApp
5 10 (13.89%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (12.50%) VMware ESX
7 6 (8.333%) vSphere
8 5 (6.944%) IAG
8 5 (6.944%) UAG
9 3 (4.167%) Terminal Services
10 2 (2.778%) XenServer
11 1 (1.389%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (1.389%) Terminal Server
11 1 (1.389%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) SCCM
2 4 (5.556%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (4.167%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.778%) WSUS
4 2 (2.778%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.778%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.389%) MOM
Vendors
1 55 (76.39%) Citrix
2 30 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 26 (36.11%) VMware
4 15 (20.83%) HP
5 10 (13.89%) AppSense
6 8 (11.11%) Lotus
6 8 (11.11%) Red Hat
7 7 (9.722%) Symantec
7 7 (9.722%) Wyse
7 7 (9.722%) Cisco
8 6 (8.333%) LANDesk
9 5 (6.944%) Adobe
10 4 (5.556%) Dell
11 2 (2.778%) Altiris
11 2 (2.778%) Cadis
11 2 (2.778%) CA
11 2 (2.778%) NetApp
11 2 (2.778%) Apple
11 2 (2.778%) McAfee
12 1 (1.389%) NEC
City of London
Citrix... The Microsoft / Citrix engineer will have strong skills in: AD Design / Active Directory / Active Directory Tidy upWindows 2008 R2 Setup and management Microsoft Printing Services (Ideally UniPrint...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
My London based client is looking for a SC Cleared Infrastructure Engineer for an initial 6Months, to start ASAP... Thank you.
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Posted: 22 May 2013