The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Redhill region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Redhill 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
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 1 9
Rank change year-on-year
0 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 13 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Redhill 34.38% 21.67% 16.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.57% 68.42% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
Average daily rate £243 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.33% +22.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £218 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £480 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £9.00 £10.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -56.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.38 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.04% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Redhill
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
14 19 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Redhill 43.75% 31.67% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
Average daily rate £243 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £150 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £525 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
Average hourly rate £9.00 £40.00 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-77.50% +70.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
Surrey

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redhill 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 Redhill region.

Redhill 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 Redhill region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Redhill 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 Redhill region.

Redhill Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Redhill 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 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) Citrix
4 7 (38.89%) HP
4 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
4 7 (38.89%) Finance
5 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL
6 5 (27.78%) Windows XP
6 5 (27.78%) VB.NET
6 5 (27.78%) .NET
6 5 (27.78%) Visual Studio
6 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
6 5 (27.78%) XML
6 5 (27.78%) XSLT
6 5 (27.78%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (27.78%) CRM
6 5 (27.78%) MVC
6 5 (27.78%) Workflow
6 5 (27.78%) Scrum
6 5 (27.78%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
6 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (27.78%) WCF
6 5 (27.78%) WF
6 5 (27.78%) Change Control
7 3 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Redhill 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 5 (27.78%) .NET
1 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
1 5 (27.78%) XML
1 5 (27.78%) XSLT
1 5 (27.78%) WCF
1 5 (27.78%) WF
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Visual Studio
2 3 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
2 5 (27.78%) VB.NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Support Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 1 (5.556%) IT Support
5 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows XP
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX
2 2 (11.11%) AIX
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) CRM
2 5 (27.78%) MVC
2 5 (27.78%) Workflow
2 5 (27.78%) Scrum
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
2 5 (27.78%) Change Control
3 1 (5.556%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) Citrix
4 7 (38.89%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 1 (5.556%) Mercator