The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client over the 3 months to 19 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 Milton Keynes 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Thin Client
Rank 55 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.333% 0.299% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.626% 1.205% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+14.06% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.89 £15.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-15.50% +1.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
123 166 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 20.47% 24.78% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 36 51
Average daily rate £370 £348 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.47% +15.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £250 £156
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 28
Average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.26% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.37 £12.60 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Thin Client
Buckinghamshire

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) OpenView
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) StorageTek
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) MCTS
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCTS
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) OpenView
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) StorageTek
1 2 (100.00%) VMware