Thin Client Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Thin Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the North West 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
Thin Client
Rank 115 122 121
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 8 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.340% 0.252% 0.166%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.468% 1.242% 0.809%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £470 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +66.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
+28.07% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
Average hourly rate £13.38 £20.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.75% -36.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.08 £15.70 £16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.68 £20.50 £35.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -7.86%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 545 644 618
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.15% 20.28% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 312 311
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £205 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £466 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.35 £10.47
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.83 £25.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Thin Client across the North West region.

North West Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thin Client within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester +17 6 - -
Cheshire +2 2 - -
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 16 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 14 (87.50%) Citrix
3 10 (62.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (37.50%) XenApp
4 6 (37.50%) XenDesktop
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 5 (31.25%) MS Office
6 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 4 (25.00%) LAN
6 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
6 4 (25.00%) Wyse
7 3 (18.75%) WAN
7 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
7 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
7 3 (18.75%) VPN
7 3 (18.75%) SSL
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
8 2 (12.50%) iPhone
8 2 (12.50%) IP Telephony
8 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
8 2 (12.50%) iPad
8 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
8 2 (12.50%) Lotus
8 2 (12.50%) SLA
8 2 (12.50%) Dell

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (6.250%) .NET
1 1 (6.250%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Office
2 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) IP Telephony
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (6.250%) MPLS
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) ADSL
4 1 (6.250%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) SAN
4 1 (6.250%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (6.250%) Back Office
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
1 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Citrix Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix Technical Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Support
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (12.50%) iPhone
3 2 (12.50%) iPad
4 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (6.250%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.250%) Security Management
1 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (6.250%) ITIL
1 1 (6.250%) Service Desk Management
1 1 (6.250%) Capacity Management
1 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
1 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) C++
1 1 (6.250%) Java
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
1 1 (6.250%) VB
1 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
1 1 (6.250%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCP
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) XenApp
1 6 (37.50%) XenDesktop
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Citrix
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Wyse
4 2 (12.50%) Lotus
4 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.250%) JBoss
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco
5 1 (6.250%) Apple
5 1 (6.250%) NetApp
5 1 (6.250%) NETGEAR
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