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Windows Contracts in London

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The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 over the 3 months to 18 June 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.

3 months to
18 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft Windows

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

Contract jobs citing Windows

2520

3106

3540

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

10.93%

11.66%

11.25%

As % of the Operating Systems category

52.81%

55.64%

54.56%

Number of daily rates quoted

1483

1718

2069

Average daily rate

£380

£360

£413

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+5.55%

-12.72%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£200

£175

£211

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£550

£575

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

£313

£300

% change year-on-year

+4.00%

+4.16%

Number of hourly rates quoted

200

269

282

Average hourly rate

£18.88

£18.00

£17.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+4.86%

+2.85%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£12.25

£12.50

£12.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£43.15

£31.80

£30.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£15.25

£16.72

£15.00

% change year-on-year

-8.79%

+11.46%

All Operating Systems
London

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category

4772

5582

6488

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

20.69%

20.96%

20.62%

Number of daily rates quoted

3132

3302

3920

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

£200

£250

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£550

£598

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

Number of hourly rates quoted

237

330

323

Average hourly rate

£19.00

£19.50

£19.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-2.56%

+2.63%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£13.50

£13.00

£12.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£45.00

£39.20

£34.45

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£16.00

£17.50

£16.20

% change year-on-year

-8.57%

+8.02%

Windows
England

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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	Find Job Vacancies
City of London	-1	790	£388	+3.33%	247
Canary Wharf	-5	29	£600	+9.09%
Croydon	+3	16	£233	-45.29%	2
Uxbridge	-3	13	£425	+112.50%	5
Docklands, London	-11	13	£350	-9.67%
Hammersmith	+2	10	£255	+8.51%
Hounslow	-3	10	£450	+91.48%	2
Harrow	-1	3	£275	-18.51%	1
Kingston Upon Thames	-4	2	-	-	4
Bromley	-11	2	-	-
Brentford	-	2	£415	-	1
Westminster	-	2	£400	-
Hackney	-	2	-	-
Hayes	+2	1	-	-
Feltham	+2	1	£300	-17.80%
Ealing	-1	1	£325	+37.56%
Chiswick	-4	1	-	-	2
Wimbledon	-	1	£275	-	3
Greenwich	-	1	£350	-
Romford	-	1	£288	-
Stanmore	-	1	-	-	2
Edgware	-	1	£153	-
Chessington	-	1	-	-	2
Belvedere	-	1	£255	-
Bexley	-	1	-	-	1
Barnet	-	-	-	-
Beckenham	-	-	-	-	1
Coulsdon	-	-	-	-
Dagenham	-	-	-	-	1
Erith	-	-	-	-	1
Greenford	-	-	-	-
New Malden	-	-	-	-	1
Northwood	-	-	-	-
Orpington	-	-	-	-
Surbiton	-	-	-	-
Teddington	-	-	-	-
Twickenham	-	-	-	-	4
Ruislip	-	-	-	-
Sidcup	-	-	-	-
Wembley	-	-	-	-
West Drayton	-	-	-	-
Paddington	-	-	-	-
Clapham	-	-	-	-
Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	1504 (30.84%)	Microsoft
2	1454 (29.82%)	Active Directory
3	1259 (25.82%)	Windows 7
4	1151 (23.61%)	Windows Server 2008
5	1001 (20.53%)	SQL
6	933 (19.13%)	Citrix
7	927 (19.01%)	Finance
8	913 (18.72%)	VMware
9	889 (18.23%)	Windows XP
10	855 (17.53%)	Windows Server 2003
11	843 (17.29%)	Banking
12	828 (16.98%)	Linux
13	811 (16.63%)	SQL Server
14	774 (15.87%)	ITIL
15	742 (15.22%)	MS Office

16	652 (13.37%)	UNIX
17	632 (12.96%)	MS Exchange
17	632 (12.96%)	MS Excel
18	620 (12.72%)	C#
19	603 (12.37%)	.NET
20	602 (12.35%)	Oracle
21	568 (11.65%)	Migration
22	519 (10.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
23	510 (10.46%)	Blackberry
24	457 (9.372%)	SAN
25	425 (8.716%)	HP
26	421 (8.634%)	Java
27	420 (8.614%)	SCCM
28	403 (8.265%)	PowerShell
29	401 (8.224%)	TCP/IP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	603 (12.37%)	.NET
2	261 (5.353%)	XML
3	216 (4.430%)	ASP.NET
4	182 (3.733%)	Web Services
5	175 (3.589%)	Middleware
6	172 (3.527%)	HTML
7	150 (3.076%)	WCF
8	129 (2.646%)	WPF
9	124 (2.543%)	Application Packaging
10	119 (2.441%)	WebSphere
11	116 (2.379%)	.NET Framework
12	109 (2.235%)	CSS
13	99 (2.030%)	jQuery
14	87 (1.784%)	XSLT
15	86 (1.764%)	WinForms
16	80 (1.641%)	Silverlight
17	77 (1.579%)	HTML5
18	74 (1.518%)	STL
19	73 (1.497%)	SOAP
20	61 (1.251%)	Ajax

Application Platforms
1	632 (12.96%)	MS Exchange
2	397 (8.142%)	IIS
3	344 (7.055%)	SharePoint
4	336 (6.891%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	224 (4.594%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	212 (4.348%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	205 (4.204%)	Apache
8	185 (3.794%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	141 (2.892%)	IBM Notes
10	98 (2.010%)	Tomcat
11	79 (1.620%)	SharePoint 2010
12	72 (1.477%)	Lync
13	69 (1.415%)	WebLogic
14	65 (1.333%)	Windows Azure
15	53 (1.087%)	WebSphere Application Server
16	45 (0.923%)	CMS
17	38 (0.779%)	SharePoint Server
18	37 (0.759%)	BizTalk Server
19	36 (0.738%)	WorkSite
20	28 (0.574%)	Oracle Coherence

Applications
1	742 (15.22%)	MS Office
2	632 (12.96%)	MS Excel
3	79 (1.620%)	MS Visio
4	64 (1.313%)	MS PowerPoint
5	39 (0.800%)	Office 365
6	38 (0.779%)	MS Project
7	33 (0.677%)	Spreadsheet
8	22 (0.451%)	InfoPath
9	18 (0.369%)	Acrobat
10	11 (0.226%)	Adobe Captivate
11	9 (0.185%)	Photoshop
12	7 (0.144%)	Google Apps
13	4 (0.082%)	SPSS
13	4 (0.082%)	Fireworks
13	4 (0.082%)	Adobe Illustrator
13	4 (0.082%)	Vectorworks
14	3 (0.062%)	OmniGraffle
14	3 (0.062%)	CINEMA 4D
14	3 (0.062%)	PowerPivot
15	2 (0.041%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	39 (0.800%)	Dynamics CRM
2	29 (0.595%)	RMDS
3	17 (0.349%)	ION MarketView
4	12 (0.246%)	Oracle EBS
5	11 (0.226%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	8 (0.164%)	Summit
7	7 (0.144%)	Oracle Applications
8	6 (0.123%)	Bond Adapt
8	6 (0.123%)	Dynamics NAV
9	5 (0.103%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
9	5 (0.103%)	Remedy ITSM
9	5 (0.103%)	3000 Xtra
10	4 (0.082%)	HFM
11	3 (0.062%)	Pivotal CRM
11	3 (0.062%)	PeopleSoft Financials
11	3 (0.062%)	Remedy AR System
11	3 (0.062%)	SunGard Stream Clearvision
11	3 (0.062%)	Bloomberg TOMS
12	2 (0.041%)	TradeThru
12	2 (0.041%)	Google Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	457 (9.372%)	SAN
2	401 (8.224%)	TCP/IP
3	364 (7.465%)	DNS
4	302 (6.194%)	Firewall
5	263 (5.394%)	LAN
6	259 (5.312%)	DHCP
7	227 (4.655%)	WAN
8	185 (3.794%)	VPN
9	177 (3.630%)	Internet
10	138 (2.830%)	NAS
11	108 (2.215%)	HTTP
12	96 (1.969%)	LDAP
13	88 (1.805%)	NetScaler
14	76 (1.559%)	SMTP
15	74 (1.518%)	VoIP
16	67 (1.374%)	SSL
17	58 (1.189%)	Intranet
18	57 (1.169%)	Cisco ASA
19	52 (1.066%)	BIG-IP
20	50 (1.025%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	811 (16.63%)	SQL Server
2	244 (5.004%)	SQL Server 2008
3	166 (3.404%)	SQL Server 2005
4	102 (2.092%)	Oracle 8/8i
5	77 (1.579%)	MySQL
6	70 (1.436%)	Oracle 11g
7	65 (1.333%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	56 (1.148%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	56 (1.148%)	Data Warehouse
9	49 (1.005%)	DB2
10	47 (0.964%)	Oracle 10g
11	45 (0.923%)	SQL Server 2000
12	40 (0.820%)	SQL Server 2012
13	31 (0.636%)	Oracle Reports
13	31 (0.636%)	RDBMS
14	26 (0.533%)	Hadoop
15	25 (0.513%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
16	24 (0.492%)	MS Access
17	22 (0.451%)	BusinessObjects XI
18	20 (0.410%)	Oracle BI EE

Development Applications
1	143 (2.933%)	MSI
2	105 (2.153%)	Subversion
3	100 (2.051%)	Visual Studio
4	77 (1.579%)	Team Foundation Server
5	66 (1.354%)	JIRA
6	56 (1.148%)	InstallShield
7	49 (1.005%)	Maven
8	48 (0.984%)	NUnit
9	44 (0.902%)	TeamCity
10	39 (0.800%)	Git (software)
10	39 (0.800%)	Oracle Forms
11	37 (0.759%)	Selenium
12	36 (0.738%)	Ant
13	33 (0.677%)	JUnit
14	31 (0.636%)	MSBuild
15	30 (0.615%)	ClearCase
16	27 (0.554%)	Eclipse
17	24 (0.492%)	CruiseControl
18	21 (0.431%)	VSS/SourceSafe
18	21 (0.431%)	Jenkins

General
1	927 (19.01%)	Finance
2	843 (17.29%)	Banking
3	338 (6.932%)	Investment Banking
4	221 (4.532%)	Front Office
5	203 (4.163%)	Law
6	173 (3.548%)	Legal
7	129 (2.646%)	Retail
8	109 (2.235%)	Back Office
9	103 (2.112%)	Telecoms
10	99 (2.030%)	Financial Institution
11	59 (1.210%)	Publishing
12	43 (0.882%)	Games
13	39 (0.800%)	Marketing
14	38 (0.779%)	French Language
15	37 (0.759%)	Advertising
16	28 (0.574%)	Retail Banking
17	20 (0.410%)	Manufacturing
18	12 (0.246%)	Aerospace
19	10 (0.205%)	Corporate Banking
19	10 (0.205%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	956 (19.61%)	Analyst
2	714 (14.64%)	Developer
3	439 (9.003%)	Support Analyst
4	324 (6.645%)	Support Engineer
5	285 (5.845%)	Architect
6	264 (5.414%)	Consultant
7	255 (5.230%)	Administrator
8	239 (4.902%)	Desktop Support
9	196 (4.020%)	Service Analyst
10	192 (3.938%)	Service Desk Analyst
11	186 (3.815%)	C# Developer
12	165 (3.384%)	Project Manager
13	161 (3.302%)	2nd Line Support
14	150 (3.076%)	3rd Line Support
15	148 (3.035%)	Systems Administrator
15	148 (3.035%)	Infrastructure Engineer
16	139 (2.851%)	Applications Support
17	129 (2.646%)	C++ Developer
18	122 (2.502%)	Desktop Engineer
19	116 (2.379%)	Systems Engineer

Miscellaneous
1	510 (10.46%)	Blackberry
2	170 (3.486%)	Clustering
3	166 (3.404%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	163 (3.343%)	Fixed Income
5	136 (2.789%)	Derivative
6	120 (2.461%)	Computer Science
7	102 (2.092%)	iPhone
8	86 (1.764%)	Hedge funds
9	83 (1.702%)	Mobile App
10	62 (1.272%)	Handset
11	59 (1.210%)	PKI
12	54 (1.107%)	Smartphone
13	52 (1.066%)	Mathematics
14	51 (1.046%)	iPad
15	50 (1.025%)	Management Information System
16	47 (0.964%)	Mainframe
16	47 (0.964%)	Credit Risk
17	46 (0.943%)	Open Source
17	46 (0.943%)	Replication
18	44 (0.902%)	Enterprise Software

Operating Systems
1	1259 (25.82%)	Windows 7
2	1151 (23.61%)	Windows Server 2008
3	889 (18.23%)	Windows XP
4	855 (17.53%)	Windows Server 2003
5	828 (16.98%)	Linux
6	652 (13.37%)	UNIX
7	193 (3.958%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	169 (3.466%)	Solaris
9	153 (3.138%)	Android
10	131 (2.687%)	Windows Server 2012
11	126 (2.584%)	Apple iOS
12	120 (2.461%)	Windows 8
13	105 (2.153%)	Windows 2000
14	103 (2.112%)	Mac OS X
15	97 (1.989%)	Windows Vista
16	66 (1.354%)	Windows Phone
17	63 (1.292%)	Windows Mobile
18	58 (1.189%)	AIX
19	50 (1.025%)	CentOS
20	35 (0.718%)	Windows NT

Processes & Methodologies
1	774 (15.87%)	ITIL
2	568 (11.65%)	Migration
3	292 (5.989%)	Project Management
4	191 (3.917%)	Change Management
5	175 (3.589%)	Agile Software Development
6	156 (3.199%)	PRINCE2
7	147 (3.015%)	Multithreading
8	145 (2.974%)	OO
9	143 (2.933%)	TDD
10	142 (2.912%)	Scrum
11	140 (2.871%)	E-Commerce
12	133 (2.728%)	Change Control
13	132 (2.707%)	Service Management
14	126 (2.584%)	Disaster Recovery
15	124 (2.543%)	Service Delivery
16	123 (2.523%)	Incident Management
17	122 (2.502%)	Workflow
18	112 (2.297%)	User Acceptance Testing
18	112 (2.297%)	Capacity Management
19	108 (2.215%)	Release Management

Programming Languages
1	1001 (20.53%)	SQL
2	620 (12.72%)	C#
3	421 (8.634%)	Java
4	403 (8.265%)	PowerShell
5	272 (5.578%)	C++
6	236 (4.840%)	Perl
7	235 (4.820%)	VB
8	226 (4.635%)	JavaScript
9	204 (4.184%)	VBScript
10	190 (3.897%)	Python
11	98 (2.010%)	C
12	90 (1.846%)	VBA
13	89 (1.825%)	Shell Script
14	76 (1.559%)	T-SQL
15	65 (1.333%)	PL/SQL
16	58 (1.189%)	VB.NET
17	57 (1.169%)	Bash shell
18	50 (1.025%)	PHP
19	45 (0.923%)	Ruby
20	35 (0.718%)	Objective-C

Qualifications
1	353 (7.240%)	Microsoft Certification
2	349 (7.158%)	Security Cleared
3	247 (5.066%)	Degree
4	228 (4.676%)	MCSE
5	195 (3.999%)	SC Cleared
6	115 (2.358%)	DV Cleared
7	106 (2.174%)	Cisco Certification
8	95 (1.948%)	ITIL Certification
9	88 (1.805%)	MCP
10	86 (1.764%)	CCNA
11	84 (1.723%)	MCITP
12	64 (1.313%)	MCSA
13	62 (1.272%)	Citrix Certification
14	59 (1.210%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15	48 (0.984%)	CCA
16	38 (0.779%)	MCTS
17	37 (0.759%)	PMI Certification
18	35 (0.718%)	ISEB
19	31 (0.636%)	CISSP
20	28 (0.574%)	NCDA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	137 (2.810%)	SLA
2	96 (1.969%)	QA
3	26 (0.533%)	ISO 9001
4	21 (0.431%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	18 (0.369%)	PCI DSS
6	12 (0.246%)	COBIT
6	12 (0.246%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	5 (0.103%)	Basel III
8	4 (0.082%)	Solvency II
9	2 (0.041%)	HIPAA
9	2 (0.041%)	Dublin Core
9	2 (0.041%)	BS7799
10	1 (0.021%)	ISO/IEC 17799
10	1 (0.021%)	WCAG
10	1 (0.021%)	Basel II

System Software
1	1454 (29.82%)	Active Directory
2	519 (10.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	330 (6.768%)	XenApp
4	200 (4.102%)	vSphere
5	185 (3.794%)	VMware ESX
6	176 (3.610%)	XenDesktop
7	164 (3.363%)	Hyper-V
8	152 (3.117%)	Microsoft App-V
9	81 (1.661%)	VMware ESXi
10	43 (0.882%)	XenServer
11	41 (0.841%)	Citrix Presentation Server
12	38 (0.779%)	SRDF
13	29 (0.595%)	NFS
14	25 (0.513%)	Terminal Services
15	22 (0.451%)	Oracle RAC
15	22 (0.451%)	UAG
16	20 (0.410%)	ISA Server
17	19 (0.390%)	EMC RecoverPoint
18	17 (0.349%)	VMware Server
19	14 (0.287%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	420 (8.614%)	SCCM
2	209 (4.286%)	SCOM
3	82 (1.682%)	WSUS
4	77 (1.579%)	NetBackup
5	71 (1.456%)	Backup Exec
6	66 (1.354%)	Tivoli
7	54 (1.107%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
8	51 (1.046%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
9	46 (0.943%)	EMC NetWorker
10	40 (0.820%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	39 (0.800%)	Control-M
12	38 (0.779%)	Puppet
13	36 (0.738%)	HP SIM
14	34 (0.697%)	BladeLogic
15	33 (0.677%)	Nagios
16	29 (0.595%)	HP Quality Center
17	26 (0.533%)	Splunk
18	25 (0.513%)	WMI
19	24 (0.492%)	SCVMM
20	22 (0.451%)	Sysprep

Vendors
1	1504 (30.84%)	Microsoft
2	933 (19.13%)	Citrix
3	913 (18.72%)	VMware
4	602 (12.35%)	Oracle
5	425 (8.716%)	HP
6	374 (7.670%)	Cisco
7	216 (4.430%)	NetApp
8	215 (4.409%)	Red Hat
9	197 (4.040%)	IBM
10	196 (4.020%)	EMC
11	174 (3.568%)	Dell
12	148 (3.035%)	Symantec
13	144 (2.953%)	Lotus
14	116 (2.379%)	AppSense
15	104 (2.133%)	Apple
16	100 (2.051%)	Altiris
17	96 (1.969%)	Reuters
18	89 (1.825%)	Bloomberg
19	81 (1.661%)	F5
20	77 (1.579%)	SAP

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