The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Terminal Services 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 System Software category for the Manchester 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 Terminal Services
Rank 73 82 69
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% 0.077% 0.288%
As % of the System Software category 2.667% 0.862% 5.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £340 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £12.61 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+24.95% -9.96%
All System Software
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
75 116 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 8.039% 8.978% 5.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 14
Average daily rate £263 £313 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +42.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £387 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £9.00 £9.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.70 £20.80 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Terminal Services
North West

Terminal Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Manchester Terminal Services Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Terminal Services Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Terminal Services Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
2 2 (66.67%) Thin Client
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya

Terminal Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Thin Client
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) Fat Client
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone
1 2 (66.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya