Windows Contracts in Newbury
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 24 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 Newbury 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 4 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 15 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 13.16% 5.833% 5.714%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.24% 63.64% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £575 £93 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+521.62% -38.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £19.25 £16.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 £16.50 £17.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.45 £16.50 £19.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 17 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 14.91% 9.167% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
Average daily rate £375 £425 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +93.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -17.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
Berkshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Newbury Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 17 (50.00%) SAN
1 17 (50.00%) VMware
1 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 16 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (35.29%) Citrix
4 11 (32.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
5 9 (26.47%) NAS
5 9 (26.47%) Clustering
5 9 (26.47%) ITIL
5 9 (26.47%) Linux
5 9 (26.47%) VPN
6 8 (23.53%) Cisco
6 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
6 8 (23.53%) Symantec
6 8 (23.53%) NetApp
6 8 (23.53%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (23.53%) Release Management
6 8 (23.53%) NetBackup
7 7 (20.59%) XenApp
7 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
8 6 (17.65%) XenDesktop
9 5 (14.71%) Windows Vista
10 4 (11.76%) Windows XP
10 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
10 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (11.76%) Electronics
11 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
11 3 (8.824%) 2G
11 3 (8.824%) Remedy

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 Platforms
1 2 (5.882%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.941%) CMS
2 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.941%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (2.941%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Office
2 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.941%) MS Project
3 1 (2.941%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) SAN
2 9 (26.47%) NAS
2 9 (26.47%) VPN
3 3 (8.824%) 2G
3 3 (8.824%) 3G
3 3 (8.824%) LAN
3 3 (8.824%) IPv4
3 3 (8.824%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.882%) WAN
5 1 (2.941%) NetScreen
5 1 (2.941%) MPLS
5 1 (2.941%) ADSL
5 1 (2.941%) ISDN
5 1 (2.941%) VoIP
5 1 (2.941%) WLAN
5 1 (2.941%) DNS
5 1 (2.941%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) MS Access
1 1 (2.941%) MySQL
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (11.76%) Electronics
2 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Desktop Support
2 7 (20.59%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (8.824%) Implementation Manager
5 3 (8.824%) Rollout Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.824%) OSS Architect
6 2 (5.882%) IT Trainer
6 2 (5.882%) Trainer
6 2 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.941%) Systems Support
7 1 (2.941%) Programmer
7 1 (2.941%) Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Clustering
2 3 (8.824%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (32.35%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
3 9 (26.47%) Linux
4 5 (14.71%) Windows Vista
5 4 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.824%) UNIX
7 1 (2.941%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ITIL
2 8 (23.53%) Release Management
3 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
3 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.824%) Resource Management
5 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.941%) Workflow
6 1 (2.941%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.824%) C
1 3 (8.824%) C++
1 3 (8.824%) Perl
2 1 (2.941%) PHP
2 1 (2.941%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.941%) A+ Certification
1 1 (2.941%) Dell Certification
1 1 (2.941%) MCP
1 1 (2.941%) DCSE
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Workstation
3 7 (20.59%) XenApp
3 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (17.65%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.941%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.941%) Splunk
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) VMware
2 12 (35.29%) Citrix
3 8 (23.53%) Cisco
3 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 8 (23.53%) Symantec
3 8 (23.53%) NetApp
4 3 (8.824%) Remedy
4 3 (8.824%) HP
4 3 (8.824%) Sun
5 2 (5.882%) Dell
6 1 (2.941%) Lotus
6 1 (2.941%) Apple
6 1 (2.941%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (2.941%) Juniper
6 1 (2.941%) SAP
6 1 (2.941%) Oracle
6 1 (2.941%) Sourcefire
6 1 (2.941%) Google
6 1 (2.941%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.941%) Imperva
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