The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull 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 Solihull 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 - 6 4
Contract jobs citing Windows 0 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull - 13.92% 14.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 68.75% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £165 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £8.50 £8.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
0 16 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull - 20.25% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £165 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £13.00 £8.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +52.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) SRDF
2 2 (40.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) WSDL
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) HPUX
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WF

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) WSDL
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WF
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) HPUX
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) SRDF
1 2 (40.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
1 2 (40.00%) NetApp
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
Service Desk Analyst/Active Directory/Exchange/LAN/WAN/Rates Negiotiable on experience... Key Skills: -Windows XP/7 -Office 2010 -Active Directory -LAN/WAN -ITIL Desirable: -ERP, SAP, JDE.
Roc Search
Posted: 24 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
Technical Web Developer / Analyst / Programmer (Open Text (Vignette), JSP Development, Tomcat/Apache)... Key skills required: OpenText (Vignette) Content Manager JSP development JavaScript Tomcat / Apache running on Windows Infrastructure...
Reed Technology
Rate: £350 - £400 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013