The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Vista 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 Windows Vista over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Vista
Rank 71 73 62
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows Vista 3 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.326% 0.843% 1.086%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.807% 3.833% 7.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £203 £263
% change year-on-year
+38.27% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 8
Average hourly rate - £9.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -28.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £12.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
166 287 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 18.06% 21.99% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 58
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £180 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 39 32
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Windows Vista
North West

Windows Vista
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Windows Vista Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Windows Vista Daily Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Windows Vista Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 2 (50.00%) iPad
3 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (50.00%) Lotus
3 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
3 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (25.00%) OLE
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (25.00%) COM
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) COM
1 1 (25.00%) OLE
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Lotus Notes
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) VBA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
1 2 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Sun
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC