The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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 2 12 3
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 62 29 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 18.90% 10.28% 17.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.58% 70.73% 66.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 12
Average daily rate £290 £275 £152
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% +81.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £208 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 12
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% +1.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.40 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £30.00 £25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
96 41 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 29.27% 14.54% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 19 18
Average daily rate £300 £300 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £205 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 14
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire Windows Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Nottingham +6 49 £295 +7.27%
Mansfield +5 1 - -
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 52 (41.27%) Active Directory
2 49 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 44 (34.92%) VMware
4 37 (29.37%) Windows Server 2008
5 35 (27.78%) Windows XP
6 34 (26.98%) SQL Server
7 33 (26.19%) Citrix
7 33 (26.19%) Windows 7
8 32 (25.40%) Linux
8 32 (25.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 26 (20.63%) SQL Server 2008
10 24 (19.05%) IBM
11 23 (18.25%) Cisco
12 22 (17.46%) MS Office
13 21 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
14 19 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
14 19 (15.08%) Windows 2000
14 19 (15.08%) UNIX
14 19 (15.08%) MS Exchange
14 19 (15.08%) SAN
15 17 (13.49%) MS Excel
15 17 (13.49%) HP
16 15 (11.90%) Telecoms
17 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (10.32%) Finance
19 12 (9.524%) Validation
19 12 (9.524%) SQL Server 2000
19 12 (9.524%) Service Delivery
19 12 (9.524%) MCSE
20 11 (8.730%) IIS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 Development
1 11 (8.730%) Web Services
2 10 (7.937%) .NET
3 8 (6.349%) ASP.NET
4 6 (4.762%) WCF
5 5 (3.968%) Ajax
5 5 (3.968%) jQuery
6 4 (3.175%) WPF
6 4 (3.175%) WinForms
7 3 (2.381%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.381%) CSS
7 3 (2.381%) HTML
8 2 (1.587%) ASP
8 2 (1.587%) SOAP
8 2 (1.587%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.587%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.587%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (1.587%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (1.587%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (1.587%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.794%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 19 (15.08%) MS Exchange
2 11 (8.730%) IIS
3 8 (6.349%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (4.762%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.762%) Apache
4 6 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (3.968%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (3.175%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (2.381%) Kentico
7 3 (2.381%) Lync
7 3 (2.381%) CMS
7 3 (2.381%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.587%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.794%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.794%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.794%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (0.794%) Lotus Domino
9 1 (0.794%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (17.46%) MS Office
2 17 (13.49%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.587%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.587%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (1.587%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.08%) SAN
2 9 (7.143%) LAN
3 8 (6.349%) Firewall
3 8 (6.349%) WAN
3 8 (6.349%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.556%) Internet
5 6 (4.762%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (4.762%) VPN
5 6 (4.762%) DNS
6 5 (3.968%) Wireless
6 5 (3.968%) DHCP
7 4 (3.175%) VLAN
8 3 (2.381%) VoIP
9 2 (1.587%) Intranet
9 2 (1.587%) Network Security
9 2 (1.587%) NAS
10 1 (0.794%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.794%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.794%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.794%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.98%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 12 (9.524%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (3.175%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.175%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.587%) DB2
6 2 (1.587%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.587%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.587%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.794%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.794%) MySQL
7 1 (0.794%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (2.381%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.794%) NUnit
2 1 (0.794%) MSTest
2 1 (0.794%) Ant
2 1 (0.794%) MSI
General
1 15 (11.90%) Telecoms
2 13 (10.32%) Finance
3 2 (1.587%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (1.587%) Retail
3 2 (1.587%) Local Government
3 2 (1.587%) Publishing
4 1 (0.794%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Support Engineer
2 15 (11.90%) 2nd Line Support
3 12 (9.524%) IT Support
3 12 (9.524%) Desktop Support
3 12 (9.524%) Analyst
3 12 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (8.730%) Developer
5 10 (7.937%) 3rd Line Support
6 9 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (7.143%) Desktop Engineer
7 8 (6.349%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (6.349%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 7 (5.556%) Administrator
8 7 (5.556%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.762%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.968%) Help Desk Support
10 5 (3.968%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.968%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (3.968%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.556%) Blackberry
2 2 (1.587%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.587%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.587%) iPhone
2 2 (1.587%) Clustering
3 1 (0.794%) VLE
3 1 (0.794%) Replication
3 1 (0.794%) Smartphone
3 1 (0.794%) Mathematics
3 1 (0.794%) Life Science
3 1 (0.794%) Fat Client
3 1 (0.794%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.794%) Thin Client
3 1 (0.794%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.37%) Windows Server 2008
2 35 (27.78%) Windows XP
3 33 (26.19%) Windows 7
4 32 (25.40%) Linux
4 32 (25.40%) Windows Server 2003
5 19 (15.08%) Windows 2000
5 19 (15.08%) UNIX
6 7 (5.556%) Windows Vista
7 5 (3.968%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.381%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.381%) Windows NT
8 3 (2.381%) HPUX
9 2 (1.587%) AIX
9 2 (1.587%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.794%) Solaris
10 1 (0.794%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (9.524%) Validation
1 12 (9.524%) Service Delivery
2 8 (6.349%) Migration
3 6 (4.762%) Configuration Management
4 5 (3.968%) Content Management
4 5 (3.968%) OO
5 4 (3.175%) E-Commerce
5 4 (3.175%) OOD
5 4 (3.175%) Problem Management
5 4 (3.175%) Capacity Management
6 3 (2.381%) MVVM
6 3 (2.381%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (2.381%) CRM
6 3 (2.381%) PRINCE2
6 3 (2.381%) ITIL
6 3 (2.381%) E-business
7 2 (1.587%) Project Management
7 2 (1.587%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (1.587%) PRINCE
7 2 (1.587%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.730%) SQL
2 6 (4.762%) C#
3 5 (3.968%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.381%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.587%) Java
5 2 (1.587%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.794%) C
6 1 (0.794%) VBScript
6 1 (0.794%) Perl
6 1 (0.794%) PHP
6 1 (0.794%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (9.524%) MCSE
3 7 (5.556%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.968%) MCITP
4 5 (3.968%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (3.968%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (3.175%) MCP
5 4 (3.175%) CCA
6 3 (2.381%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.587%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.587%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.794%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (41.27%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.937%) XenApp
4 6 (4.762%) MetaFrame
4 6 (4.762%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (1.587%) vSphere
5 2 (1.587%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.794%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.794%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.794%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.794%) XenServer
6 1 (0.794%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.794%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.794%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.794%) IAG
6 1 (0.794%) UAG
6 1 (0.794%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.794%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.794%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 9 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 7 (5.556%) SCCM
3 3 (2.381%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (1.587%) DameWare
5 1 (0.794%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.794%) WSUS
5 1 (0.794%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.794%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 49 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 44 (34.92%) VMware
3 33 (26.19%) Citrix
4 24 (19.05%) IBM
5 23 (18.25%) Cisco
6 17 (13.49%) HP
7 10 (7.937%) Oracle
8 5 (3.968%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.381%) F5
9 3 (2.381%) NetApp
9 3 (2.381%) Novell
10 2 (1.587%) McAfee
10 2 (1.587%) Lotus
10 2 (1.587%) EMC
10 2 (1.587%) PlateSpin
10 2 (1.587%) Twitter
11 1 (0.794%) Brocade
11 1 (0.794%) Altiris
11 1 (0.794%) Veeam
11 1 (0.794%) DevExpress
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