The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reigate region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 23 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 Reigate 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 3 1 6
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 4 21 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 28.57% 51.22% 25.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 80.77% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 4
Average daily rate £275 £190 £299
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.73% -36.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -26.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Reigate
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4 26 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 28.57% 63.41% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 14
Average daily rate £275 £190 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.73% -34.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
Surrey

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) SQL
3 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
4 12 (57.14%) Finance
5 11 (52.38%) MVC
5 11 (52.38%) Scrum
5 11 (52.38%) Workflow
5 11 (52.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (52.38%) WCF
5 11 (52.38%) WF
5 11 (52.38%) CRM
5 11 (52.38%) VB.NET
5 11 (52.38%) .NET
5 11 (52.38%) MS Office
5 11 (52.38%) Visual Studio
5 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET
5 11 (52.38%) XML
5 11 (52.38%) XSLT
6 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
7 5 (23.81%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (23.81%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (19.05%) VMware
8 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
8 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
8 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
9 3 (14.29%) Release Management
9 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 (52.38%) WCF
1 11 (52.38%) WF
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
1 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET
1 11 (52.38%) XML
1 11 (52.38%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
2 5 (23.81%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (23.81%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (9.524%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (52.38%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) Firewall
1 2 (9.524%) IPsec
1 2 (9.524%) DHCP
1 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.524%) VPN
1 2 (9.524%) DNS
2 1 (4.762%) SAN
2 1 (4.762%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) .NET Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Systems Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) VB.NET Developer
4 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 2 (9.524%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Support Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.762%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX
4 2 (9.524%) AIX
4 2 (9.524%) Linux
5 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) MVC
1 11 (52.38%) Scrum
1 11 (52.38%) Workflow
1 11 (52.38%) CRM
2 3 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (4.762%) Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) MCP
2 1 (4.762%) MCSE
2 1 (4.762%) MCSA
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.762%) MCDST
2 1 (4.762%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.524%) XenApp
2 2 (9.524%) vSphere
2 2 (9.524%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) VMware
3 2 (9.524%) CheckPoint
3 2 (9.524%) Citrix
3 2 (9.524%) Cisco
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle