The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Merseyside 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
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 38 60 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 17.67% 23.17% 20.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.58% 77.92% 82.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 21
Average daily rate £243 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £175 £133
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.07% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 8
Average hourly rate £11.25 £16.00 £11.37
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.68% +40.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £10.00 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.86 £29.65 £16.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.40 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
66 77 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.70% 29.73% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 31
Average daily rate £318 £290 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% -1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £140 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 8
Average hourly rate £11.25 £16.50 £11.37
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +45.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.12 £30.00 £14.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Windows
North West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Merseyside Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Windows Hourly Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 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
Liverpool -2 30 £243 -19.16%
Bootle +6 1 - -
Wirral -4 1 - -
Windows
North West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 25 (36.23%) MS Office
2 19 (27.54%) Active Directory
3 17 (24.64%) Software Testing
3 17 (24.64%) QA
4 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
5 13 (18.84%) SQL Server
5 13 (18.84%) Linux
5 13 (18.84%) VMware
5 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (15.94%) Windows 7
6 11 (15.94%) Citrix
7 10 (14.49%) Windows XP
7 10 (14.49%) Oracle
7 10 (14.49%) .NET
8 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (10.14%) Migration
9 7 (10.14%) SQL
9 7 (10.14%) C#
9 7 (10.14%) Visual Studio
9 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
9 7 (10.14%) CSS
9 7 (10.14%) XML
9 7 (10.14%) XSLT
9 7 (10.14%) ITIL
9 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (10.14%) jQuery
9 7 (10.14%) Degree
10 6 (8.696%) SC Cleared
10 6 (8.696%) PowerShell
10 6 (8.696%) Security Cleared

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 10 (14.49%) .NET
2 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
2 7 (10.14%) CSS
2 7 (10.14%) XML
2 7 (10.14%) XSLT
2 7 (10.14%) jQuery
3 5 (7.246%) Google Maps API
3 5 (7.246%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (7.246%) HTML5
3 5 (7.246%) CodeIgniter
3 5 (7.246%) CakePHP
3 5 (7.246%) XSD
3 5 (7.246%) CSS3
3 5 (7.246%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.899%) Web Services
4 2 (2.899%) LINQ
4 2 (2.899%) HTML
4 2 (2.899%) WCF
4 2 (2.899%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (1.449%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.246%) CMS
1 5 (7.246%) Umbraco
1 5 (7.246%) WordPress
2 4 (5.797%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.348%) MS Exchange
4 2 (2.899%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.449%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.449%) WebSphere Process Server
5 1 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.449%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (1.449%) GroupWise
5 1 (1.449%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 25 (36.23%) MS Office
2 4 (5.797%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.899%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.449%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.696%) DNS
2 5 (7.246%) SAN
2 5 (7.246%) LAN
3 4 (5.797%) WAN
4 3 (4.348%) DHCP
4 3 (4.348%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.899%) Internet
5 2 (2.899%) LDAP
6 1 (1.449%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.449%) SMS
6 1 (1.449%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.246%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.246%) MySQL
3 4 (5.797%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.797%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.348%) DB2
5 2 (2.899%) Informix
5 2 (2.899%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.246%) NetBeans
2 5 (7.246%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.449%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.449%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (2.899%) Manufacturing
1 2 (2.899%) Finance
2 1 (1.449%) Legal
2 1 (1.449%) Retail
2 1 (1.449%) French Language
2 1 (1.449%) Italian Language
2 1 (1.449%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Administrator
2 13 (18.84%) IT Administrator
3 8 (11.59%) Developer
4 6 (8.696%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.246%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (7.246%) Project Engineer
6 4 (5.797%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (5.797%) Analyst
6 4 (5.797%) Consultant
6 4 (5.797%) Coordinator
6 4 (5.797%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) Windows Server Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) Designer
7 2 (2.899%) Software Developer
7 2 (2.899%) Architect
7 2 (2.899%) Customer Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.899%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (2.899%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.246%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.899%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.899%) Replication
2 2 (2.899%) Clustering
3 1 (1.449%) VAX
3 1 (1.449%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.449%) Statistics
3 1 (1.449%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.449%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
1 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (15.94%) Windows 7
3 10 (14.49%) Windows XP
4 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (8.696%) UNIX
6 5 (7.246%) AIX
6 5 (7.246%) Windows 2000 Server
7 4 (5.797%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (4.348%) Windows 2000
9 2 (2.899%) HPUX
9 2 (2.899%) Solaris
9 2 (2.899%) Tru64
9 2 (2.899%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (1.449%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Software Testing
2 7 (10.14%) ITIL
2 7 (10.14%) Migration
3 5 (7.246%) MVC
3 5 (7.246%) SEO
3 5 (7.246%) Change Management
3 5 (7.246%) OO
3 5 (7.246%) OOD
3 5 (7.246%) Web Development
3 5 (7.246%) Business Development
4 3 (4.348%) Performance Management
4 3 (4.348%) Configuration Management
4 3 (4.348%) Project Management
4 3 (4.348%) Process Management
4 3 (4.348%) Validation
5 2 (2.899%) Service Management
5 2 (2.899%) ERP
5 2 (2.899%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (2.899%) UML
5 2 (2.899%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) C#
1 7 (10.14%) SQL
2 6 (8.696%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.246%) XPath
3 5 (7.246%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.246%) PHP
4 2 (2.899%) Java
5 1 (1.449%) C
5 1 (1.449%) VBA
5 1 (1.449%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
2 6 (8.696%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.696%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.797%) CCA
3 4 (5.797%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.449%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.449%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.449%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.449%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.449%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.449%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.64%) QA
2 1 (1.449%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.246%) XenApp
3 5 (7.246%) VMware ESX
4 4 (5.797%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.348%) vSphere
6 2 (2.899%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.899%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (1.449%) vCloud
7 1 (1.449%) UAG
7 1 (1.449%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.449%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.449%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.449%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (7.246%) SCCM
2 3 (4.348%) SCOM
3 2 (2.899%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.899%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.449%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.449%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 11 (15.94%) Citrix
4 10 (14.49%) Oracle
5 5 (7.246%) IBM
5 5 (7.246%) Google
5 5 (7.246%) Zend
5 5 (7.246%) Facebook
5 5 (7.246%) Twitter
6 4 (5.797%) Dell
6 4 (5.797%) AppSense
7 3 (4.348%) NetApp
7 3 (4.348%) HP
7 3 (4.348%) SAP
8 2 (2.899%) Cisco
8 2 (2.899%) Sun
8 2 (2.899%) Baan
8 2 (2.899%) JD Edwards
8 2 (2.899%) Brocade
9 1 (1.449%) ION Trading
Liverpool, North West
The successful candidate will be required to ensure the IT Infrasturture is maintained and is appropriate to support the companies business requirements. The work will be mostly project...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Wirral, North West
In this role you should have prior experience in roll-outs / new deployments with experience and broad understanding of Windows operating system, including Active Directory, network cabling etc...
Rate: £12.00 - £13.00 per hour + overtime
Posted: 23 April 2013
Liverpool, North West
Our Public Sector Client has an immediate, short term requirement for a Helpdesk Technician to help the existing team. The job opportunity involves being the first point of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £8.00 - £10.00 per hour
Posted: 26 April 2013