The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Support role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wintel Support in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Support
Rank 369 393 424
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Support 8 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.063% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.068% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 5
Average daily rate £300 £388 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +35.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
-12.30% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £20.45 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -18.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £14.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
-13.79% -44.23%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Wintel Support
England

Wintel Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wintel Support across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Wintel Support Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Wintel Support Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Wintel Support Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Support within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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
Romford - 1 £288 -
Wintel Support
England

Wintel Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Wintel Support in their job title 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 with Wintel Support in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) VMware ESX
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas
3 5 (62.50%) EMC
3 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
3 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 5 (62.50%) Financial Institution
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (62.50%) Hedge funds
3 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) XenApp
6 1 (12.50%) Leostream
6 1 (12.50%) vSphere
6 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (12.50%) NAS
6 1 (12.50%) F5
6 1 (12.50%) Infor
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Wintel Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Wintel Support in their job title 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 with Wintel Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) ADSI
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
1 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Infor M3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Financial Institution
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 1 (12.50%) Windows NT
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware ESX
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (12.50%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
1 1 (12.50%) Legato
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas
3 5 (62.50%) EMC
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) Leostream
6 1 (12.50%) F5
6 1 (12.50%) Infor
6 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
6 1 (12.50%) PlateSpin
6 1 (12.50%) McAfee
6 1 (12.50%) Sophos
6 1 (12.50%) BMC
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (12.50%) HP
6 1 (12.50%) Dell
6 1 (12.50%) IBM
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle