The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Thin Client
Rank 64 81 69
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -12
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.513% 0.162% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.232% 0.784% 0.518%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £120
UK excluding London average daily rate £411 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+28.51% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £11.75 £20.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.68% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.89 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-19.46% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
224 255 193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 22.97% 20.68% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 100 82
Average daily rate £324 £301 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.55% -1.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 24
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £11.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +80.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £17.60 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £31.64 £25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Thin Client
North West

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wigan - 1 - -
Thin Client
North West

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
4 2 (25.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (25.00%) iPhone
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (25.00%) iPad
4 2 (25.00%) IBM Notes
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) MS Office
4 2 (25.00%) Lotus
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) Back Office
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Apple
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCEA
5 1 (12.50%) MetaFrame

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IBM Notes
1 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Lync
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) IT Support
4 2 (25.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
3 2 (25.00%) iPhone
3 2 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCEA
1 1 (12.50%) CCEE
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) XenApp
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Lotus
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp