The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills 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 Windows 7 over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 27 27 42
Rank change year-on-year
0 +15
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 29 34 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 5.472% 4.809% 2.288%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.62% 16.59% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 5
Average daily rate £350 £280 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +180.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.08% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 5
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.81 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+2.15% +3.57%
All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
105 205 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.81% 29.00% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 55
Average daily rate £313 £280 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.60% -2.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 32
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £10.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £15.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 7
Buckinghamshire

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Milton Keynes Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 7 across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Windows 7 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 65 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (47.69%) Windows XP
3 28 (43.08%) Microsoft
3 28 (43.08%) Active Directory
4 26 (40.00%) MS Office
5 21 (32.31%) Citrix
6 18 (27.69%) ITIL
6 18 (27.69%) TCP/IP
6 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
7 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 15 (23.08%) Windows Vista
8 14 (21.54%) Lotus
9 13 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
10 12 (18.46%) VPN
10 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (18.46%) Remedy
11 11 (16.92%) SQL
11 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
11 11 (16.92%) Firewall
12 10 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (15.38%) MS Exchange
13 9 (13.85%) MS Excel
13 9 (13.85%) Migration
13 9 (13.85%) DV Cleared
13 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (13.85%) PDA
13 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2003
13 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
14 8 (12.31%) XenApp

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (4.615%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.538%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.538%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 10 (15.38%) MS Exchange
3 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2003
3 9 (13.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 26 (40.00%) MS Office
2 9 (13.85%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.538%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) TCP/IP
2 12 (18.46%) VPN
3 11 (16.92%) Firewall
4 8 (12.31%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (12.31%) Broadband
4 8 (12.31%) DNS
4 8 (12.31%) 3G
4 8 (12.31%) DHCP
4 8 (12.31%) SAN
5 5 (7.692%) Internet
6 4 (6.154%) LAN
6 4 (6.154%) WAN
7 3 (4.615%) NAS
8 1 (1.538%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.615%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MSI
2 7 (10.77%) AdminStudio
3 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.538%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (10.77%) Finance
2 4 (6.154%) Marketing
3 2 (3.077%) Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.538%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 31 (47.69%) Analyst
2 26 (40.00%) Service Analyst
2 26 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (16.92%) Support Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Applications Packager
4 9 (13.85%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (10.77%) Help Desk Analyst
6 6 (9.231%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (6.154%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.154%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.615%) Help Desk Support
8 3 (4.615%) Help Desk Support Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.615%) Architect
9 2 (3.077%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Service Desk Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Applications Support
9 2 (3.077%) Rollout Engineer
10 1 (1.538%) Senior QA Manager
10 1 (1.538%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) PDA
2 8 (12.31%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.615%) Cryptography
3 3 (4.615%) EPoS
3 3 (4.615%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.615%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.077%) iPhone
5 1 (1.538%) Replication
5 1 (1.538%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (47.69%) Windows XP
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Vista
4 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (6.154%) Windows 2000
6 3 (4.615%) UNIX
6 3 (4.615%) Windows NT
7 2 (3.077%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) ITIL
2 9 (13.85%) Migration
3 4 (6.154%) Configuration Management
3 4 (6.154%) Integration Testing
3 4 (6.154%) Test Scripting
3 4 (6.154%) Validation
4 3 (4.615%) Service Delivery
4 3 (4.615%) DNA
5 2 (3.077%) ITIL V3
6 1 (1.538%) Logistics
6 1 (1.538%) Resource Management
6 1 (1.538%) Incident Management
6 1 (1.538%) Time Management
6 1 (1.538%) Test Management
6 1 (1.538%) Service Management
6 1 (1.538%) Scrum
6 1 (1.538%) PRINCE2
6 1 (1.538%) Project Management
6 1 (1.538%) Waterfall
6 1 (1.538%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) SQL
2 1 (1.538%) VBScript
2 1 (1.538%) VB
2 1 (1.538%) VBA
2 1 (1.538%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.31%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.615%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.538%) MCDST
7 1 (1.538%) MCP
7 1 (1.538%) PMP
7 1 (1.538%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.692%) SLA
2 4 (6.154%) QA
System Software
1 28 (43.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.31%) XenApp
3 8 (12.31%) XenDesktop
4 2 (3.077%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.538%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.538%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.538%) Terminal Server
5 1 (1.538%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.538%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.154%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (4.615%) SCCM
2 3 (4.615%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (4.615%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 3 (4.615%) OpenView
2 3 (4.615%) AppDNA
3 1 (1.538%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.538%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (32.31%) Citrix
3 14 (21.54%) Lotus
4 12 (18.46%) Remedy
5 8 (12.31%) VMware
5 8 (12.31%) SAP
5 8 (12.31%) HP
6 4 (6.154%) Symantec
6 4 (6.154%) Sophos
7 3 (4.615%) StorageTek
7 3 (4.615%) AppSense
7 3 (4.615%) Oracle
7 3 (4.615%) Cisco
7 3 (4.615%) Sun
8 1 (1.538%) Dell
8 1 (1.538%) EMC
8 1 (1.538%) CA
8 1 (1.538%) Veeam
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
They require Service Desk Analysts to cover day and night shifts. The Service Desk Analyst will be responsible for providing 1st and 2nd line support and services for...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £13 - £15 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Our client is looking to recruit a Service Desk Analyst to support a large project for a 1 month contract in Milton Keynes. This contract has potential for...
Alexander Mann Solutions
Posted: 2 May 2013
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You will be an experienced 1st line professional with a good track record of technical, Windows 7 Support roles and you must be able to demonstrate a first...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £13.00 per hour
Posted: 3 May 2013