Windows Contracts in Middlesex
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 7 12 16
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 24 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 11.43% 7.233% 7.738%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.54% 48.94% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 5
Average daily rate £570 £400 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.50% +40.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £220 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.23% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 12
Average hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.84% +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 39 47 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 18.57% 14.78% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 23
Average daily rate £475 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £247 £287
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £495 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 15
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +103.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £24.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.25 £39.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
South East

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Middlesex Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 21 (46.67%) SAN
2 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (31.11%) ITIL
4 11 (24.44%) Linux
4 11 (24.44%) Dell
4 11 (24.44%) Hyper-V
5 10 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 10 (22.22%) High Availability
6 9 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (20.00%) UNIX
7 8 (17.78%) Oracle
7 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
7 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (17.78%) Degree
8 7 (15.56%) MS Exchange
8 7 (15.56%) SQL
8 7 (15.56%) SAP
9 6 (13.33%) EMC
9 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
10 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
10 5 (11.11%) MS Office
10 5 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 5 (11.11%) Celerra
11 4 (8.889%) SAP Certification
11 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (8.889%) TOGAF
11 4 (8.889%) HP
11 4 (8.889%) Citrix
12 3 (6.667%) Informatica

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (4.444%) XML
2 1 (2.222%) J2EE
2 1 (2.222%) HTML
2 1 (2.222%) ASP
2 1 (2.222%) CSS
2 1 (2.222%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.222%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) MS Exchange
2 5 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (6.667%) IIS
3 3 (6.667%) Apache
4 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (4.444%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.444%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.222%) Site Server
5 1 (2.222%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.222%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.222%) SAP Web AS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Office
2 3 (6.667%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.222%) Fireworks
3 1 (2.222%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.222%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (2.222%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 21 (46.67%) SAN
2 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.667%) LAN
3 3 (6.667%) DHCP
3 3 (6.667%) HTTP
3 3 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.444%) DNS
5 1 (2.222%) 3G
5 1 (2.222%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.222%) VPN
5 1 (2.222%) SMTP
5 1 (2.222%) Firewall
5 1 (2.222%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.222%) MySQL
2 1 (2.222%) DB2
2 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
General
1 3 (6.667%) Local Government
2 2 (4.444%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.444%) Publishing
3 1 (2.222%) Advertising
3 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 5 (11.11%) Architect
2 4 (8.889%) Analyst
3 3 (6.667%) SAN Engineer
3 3 (6.667%) Server Engineer
3 3 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (6.667%) Support Analyst
3 3 (6.667%) Technical Architect
3 3 (6.667%) Desktop Support
3 3 (6.667%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) IT Assistant
4 2 (4.444%) Consultant
4 2 (4.444%) Support Assistant
4 2 (4.444%) SAP Manager
4 2 (4.444%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (4.444%) Network Support
5 1 (2.222%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (2.222%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (2.222%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Celerra
2 3 (6.667%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.444%) iPad
3 2 (4.444%) SaaS
3 2 (4.444%) iPhone
3 2 (4.444%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.444%) Physics
3 2 (4.444%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.222%) CCTV
4 1 (2.222%) Clustering
4 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.222%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
3 10 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 9 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 9 (20.00%) UNIX
5 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.444%) Solaris
7 1 (2.222%) AIX
7 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000
7 1 (2.222%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.222%) Fedora
7 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) ITIL
2 10 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (8.889%) TOGAF
4 2 (4.444%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.444%) Service Management
5 1 (2.222%) ERP
5 1 (2.222%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (2.222%) Information Security
5 1 (2.222%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.222%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (2.222%) Web Development
5 1 (2.222%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.222%) Change Management
5 1 (2.222%) ITSM
5 1 (2.222%) Integration Testing
5 1 (2.222%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.222%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (2.222%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 2 (4.444%) PHP
2 2 (4.444%) VBScript
2 2 (4.444%) VB
3 1 (2.222%) C
3 1 (2.222%) Java
3 1 (2.222%) Perl
3 1 (2.222%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.222%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 4 (8.889%) SAP Certification
3 2 (4.444%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.222%) CISSP
4 1 (2.222%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.222%) CCNA
4 1 (2.222%) MCSD
4 1 (2.222%) MCSE
4 1 (2.222%) MCDST
4 1 (2.222%) CISM
4 1 (2.222%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.667%) XenDesktop
4 2 (4.444%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.444%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.222%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.222%) XenApp
5 1 (2.222%) vSphere
5 1 (2.222%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) SCCM
2 1 (2.222%) OpenView
2 1 (2.222%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.222%) WSUS
2 1 (2.222%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.222%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.222%) SCOM
2 1 (2.222%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Dell
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle
4 7 (15.56%) SAP
5 6 (13.33%) EMC
6 4 (8.889%) HP
6 4 (8.889%) Citrix
7 3 (6.667%) Informatica
8 2 (4.444%) VMware
8 2 (4.444%) AppSense
9 1 (2.222%) NetApp
9 1 (2.222%) Symantec
9 1 (2.222%) Cisco
9 1 (2.222%) IBM
9 1 (2.222%) Adobe
9 1 (2.222%) Sun
9 1 (2.222%) JBoss
9 1 (2.222%) LANDesk
9 1 (2.222%) Zend
9 1 (2.222%) Lumension
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