The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 20 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 Salford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 2 5 3
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 24.00% 12.50% 12.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 42.86% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £313 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.76% +11.43%
All Operating Systems
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 32.00% 29.17% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
Average daily rate £300 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
Manchester

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 8 (61.54%) Windows XP
2 6 (46.15%) MS Exchange
2 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
4 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
4 4 (30.77%) SAN
5 3 (23.08%) Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (23.08%) Android
5 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
6 2 (15.38%) Hudson
6 2 (15.38%) bada
6 2 (15.38%) Maemo
6 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) iPhone
6 2 (15.38%) Robotium
6 2 (15.38%) Kanban
6 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
6 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) JSON
6 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 2 (15.38%) Selenium

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) XSLT
2 1 (7.692%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) Series 60
2 1 (7.692%) iPhone SDK
2 1 (7.692%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) IBM Notes
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (7.692%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DHCP
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) 3G
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
4 1 (7.692%) Ethernet
4 1 (7.692%) HTTP
4 1 (7.692%) LAN
4 1 (7.692%) VoIP
4 1 (7.692%) WAN
4 1 (7.692%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Hudson
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) Robotium
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) Xcode
2 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.692%) Firebug
2 1 (7.692%) CruiseControl
2 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.692%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows XP
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (23.08%) Android
3 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
4 2 (15.38%) bada
4 2 (15.38%) Maemo
4 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Scrum
2 2 (15.38%) BDD
2 2 (15.38%) Kanban
2 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.692%) Java
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) PHP
2 1 (7.692%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
1 1 (7.692%) ISTQB
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) DameWare
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
1 1 (7.692%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) NetApp
2 1 (7.692%) Lotus
2 1 (7.692%) Citrix
2 1 (7.692%) Juniper
2 1 (7.692%) Symbian
Salford, Lancashire
The Desktop Support Engineer must have worked to support Windows XP and 7 and Outlook 2010 and have an excellent skillet with PC, Desktop and Printer hardware support.
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £12 - £18 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013