Windows 8 Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 8 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 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
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 309 398 -
Rank change year-on-year
+89 -
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 68 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.314% 0.063% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.544% 0.310% -
Number of daily rates quoted 47 10 0
Average daily rate £438 £331 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £213
% change year-on-year
- +48.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 - -
Search 17 Windows 8 jobs in London
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 4404 5489 6317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.34% 20.38% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2870 3259 3802
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 320 343
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

London Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 8 across the London region.

London Windows 8 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Windows 8 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 8
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the London region.

London Windows 8 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 8
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Windows 8 Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows 8
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 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 +29 15 £400 +14.28%
Hounslow - 5 £450 -
Wembley - 1 £375 -
Docklands, London - 1 £240 -
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 116 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (32.76%) Windows 7
3 35 (30.17%) C#
3 35 (30.17%) Active Directory
4 33 (28.45%) Microsoft
5 29 (25.00%) Android
6 28 (24.14%) Apple iOS
7 25 (21.55%) PowerShell
8 21 (18.10%) Silverlight
8 21 (18.10%) Windows Server 2008
8 21 (18.10%) Windows XP
9 20 (17.24%) MS Exchange
9 20 (17.24%) WSUS
10 19 (16.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 18 (15.52%) SCCM
11 18 (15.52%) Mobile App
12 17 (14.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (14.66%) Exchange Server 2010
12 17 (14.66%) Project Management
13 16 (13.79%) SQL
14 15 (12.93%) .NET
14 15 (12.93%) HTML5
14 15 (12.93%) Windows Phone
15 14 (12.07%) WPF
15 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
15 14 (12.07%) Blackberry
16 13 (11.21%) Hyper-V
17 12 (10.34%) Banking
17 12 (10.34%) MSI
17 12 (10.34%) XAML

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (18.10%) Silverlight
2 15 (12.93%) .NET
2 15 (12.93%) HTML5
3 14 (12.07%) WPF
4 8 (6.897%) CSS
5 7 (6.034%) XML
5 7 (6.034%) DirectX
6 6 (5.172%) Ajax
6 6 (5.172%) HTML
7 5 (4.310%) XNA
7 5 (4.310%) REST
8 4 (3.448%) jQuery
9 3 (2.586%) CSS3
10 2 (1.724%) Sencha Touch
10 2 (1.724%) JSON
10 2 (1.724%) Apache Flex
10 2 (1.724%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.724%) WCF
10 2 (1.724%) LINQ
10 2 (1.724%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 20 (17.24%) MS Exchange
2 17 (14.66%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (9.483%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (8.621%) CMS
5 8 (6.897%) Escenic
6 6 (5.172%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (3.448%) SharePoint
8 3 (2.586%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (2.586%) Lync
9 2 (1.724%) IIS
9 2 (1.724%) Apache
9 2 (1.724%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.862%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (6.034%) MS Excel
1 7 (6.034%) MS Office
2 2 (1.724%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.724%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.862%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.862%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.862%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.621%) VLAN
1 10 (8.621%) SAN
1 10 (8.621%) DNS
1 10 (8.621%) SMTP
1 10 (8.621%) DHCP
2 8 (6.897%) Kerberos
3 7 (6.034%) LAN
4 6 (5.172%) Internet
4 6 (5.172%) WAN
5 5 (4.310%) Firewall
5 5 (4.310%) VPN
6 4 (3.448%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.448%) HTTP
7 3 (2.586%) LDAP
7 3 (2.586%) VoIP
7 3 (2.586%) Wireless
8 2 (1.724%) SSL
9 1 (0.862%) ATM
9 1 (0.862%) DMZ
9 1 (0.862%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.759%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.862%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.862%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.862%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (0.862%) BODI
3 1 (0.862%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) MSI
2 11 (9.483%) InstallShield
3 6 (5.172%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.586%) Selenium
4 3 (2.586%) Subversion
5 1 (0.862%) Flash Builder
5 1 (0.862%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.862%) Maven
5 1 (0.862%) JIRA
5 1 (0.862%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.862%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (10.34%) Banking
2 10 (8.621%) French Language
3 7 (6.034%) Games
3 7 (6.034%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.310%) Finance
5 2 (1.724%) Advertising
5 2 (1.724%) Publishing
6 1 (0.862%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.862%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.862%) Retail
6 1 (0.862%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) Developer
2 12 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 11 (9.483%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.621%) Mobile Developer
4 10 (8.621%) Consultant
5 8 (6.897%) UI Programmer
5 8 (6.897%) Digital Project Manager
5 8 (6.897%) UI Developer
6 7 (6.034%) Architect
6 7 (6.034%) SCCM Engineer
7 6 (5.172%) Silverlight Developer
7 6 (5.172%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.448%) Windows Mobile Developer
8 4 (3.448%) Windows 8 Developer
8 4 (3.448%) Android Developer
8 4 (3.448%) Desktop Support
9 3 (2.586%) Analyst
9 3 (2.586%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (2.586%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.586%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Mobile App
2 14 (12.07%) Blackberry
3 8 (6.897%) EqualLogic
3 8 (6.897%) PMI
4 7 (6.034%) iPhone
5 6 (5.172%) Smartphone
6 5 (4.310%) Open Source
7 4 (3.448%) Digital Media
7 4 (3.448%) Kinect
7 4 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.586%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.586%) iPad
9 1 (0.862%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.862%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.862%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.862%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.862%) Streaming Video
9 1 (0.862%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.862%) Interactive TV
9 1 (0.862%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (32.76%) Windows 7
3 29 (25.00%) Android
4 28 (24.14%) Apple iOS
5 21 (18.10%) Windows Server 2008
5 21 (18.10%) Windows XP
6 19 (16.38%) Windows Server 2003
7 17 (14.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (12.93%) Windows Phone
9 6 (5.172%) Windows Phone 8
9 6 (5.172%) Windows Phone 7
10 5 (4.310%) Linux
11 4 (3.448%) Windows Vista
12 2 (1.724%) Windows Mobile
12 2 (1.724%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.724%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.862%) UNIX
13 1 (0.862%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.862%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (14.66%) Project Management
2 12 (10.34%) Workflow
3 10 (8.621%) Change Control
4 9 (7.759%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (6.897%) MVVM
5 8 (6.897%) Waterfall
5 8 (6.897%) Network Load Balancing
5 8 (6.897%) Web Development
5 8 (6.897%) Migration
5 8 (6.897%) PRINCE2
6 7 (6.034%) ITIL
6 7 (6.034%) Software Engineering
7 5 (4.310%) OO
7 5 (4.310%) E-Commerce
7 5 (4.310%) Pair Programming
8 4 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (3.448%) TDD
8 4 (3.448%) Release Management
8 4 (3.448%) Manual Testing
9 3 (2.586%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.17%) C#
2 25 (21.55%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.79%) SQL
4 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.34%) XAML
6 8 (6.897%) C++
7 5 (4.310%) Java
8 4 (3.448%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.586%) VBA
9 3 (2.586%) VBScript
9 3 (2.586%) VB
10 2 (1.724%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.724%) ActionScript 3.0
10 2 (1.724%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.724%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.862%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.862%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (6.897%) PMI Certification
2 4 (3.448%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.448%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.586%) MCSE
4 2 (1.724%) MCTS
4 2 (1.724%) MCP
5 1 (0.862%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.862%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.759%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.21%) Hyper-V
3 11 (9.483%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.586%) XenApp
5 2 (1.724%) UAG
5 2 (1.724%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.724%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.724%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.862%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (17.24%) WSUS
2 18 (15.52%) SCCM
3 11 (9.483%) SCOM
4 10 (8.621%) SCVMM
5 8 (6.897%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 33 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) VMware
2 12 (10.34%) Dell
3 9 (7.759%) Symantec
3 9 (7.759%) Broadcom
4 5 (4.310%) Oracle
5 4 (3.448%) Apple
5 4 (3.448%) Citrix
6 3 (2.586%) Adobe
6 3 (2.586%) SAP
6 3 (2.586%) Business Objects
6 3 (2.586%) LANDesk
6 3 (2.586%) Altiris
7 2 (1.724%) Sencha
7 2 (1.724%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.724%) NetApp
7 2 (1.724%) EMC
8 1 (0.862%) HP
8 1 (0.862%) Cisco
8 1 (0.862%) Nokia
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