The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Specialist role 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 Wintel Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Specialist
Rank 115 132 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Specialist 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.084% 0.066% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.072% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £324 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £365
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 - £29.00
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2232 2786 2784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.51% 91.71% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1055 1409 1431
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 169 209
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.42 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.88% +4.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Wintel Specialist
England

Wintel Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wintel Specialist across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West Wintel Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Wintel Specialist across the North West region.

North West Wintel Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Specialist within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Wintel Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Wintel Specialist in their job title 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 with Wintel Specialist in their job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) HP
2 8 (80.00%) VMware
3 7 (70.00%) DHCP
3 7 (70.00%) DNS
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (60.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) SAN
5 4 (40.00%) SCCM
5 4 (40.00%) SCOM
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (30.00%) XenApp
6 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (30.00%) Windows NT
6 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) VB
7 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
7 2 (20.00%) Symantec
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (20.00%) Dell
7 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (20.00%) VMware Server

Wintel Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Wintel Specialist in their job title 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 with Wintel Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (10.00%) Lync
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DHCP
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (30.00%) Windows NT
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) XenApp
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Server
4 1 (10.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
1 4 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) HP
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Symantec
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle
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