Windows 7 Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 21 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 Somerset 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 8 31 29
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 28 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 14.97% 3.012% 2.516%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.08% 15.15% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £240 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £280 £275
% change year-on-year
-5.35% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
Average hourly rate £14.10 £14.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.00 £12.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.00 £15.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +7.40%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 65 33 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 34.76% 19.88% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 24
Average daily rate £232 £280 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £245 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 14
Average hourly rate £15.20 £12.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.08% -18.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £13.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £17.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 7
South West

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Somerset Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 7 across the Somerset region.

Somerset Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Somerset Windows 7 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 7 across the Somerset region.

Somerset Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Taunton - 16 £350 -
Yeovil - 5 £240 -
Bath +5 3 £135 -
Windows 7
South West

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (75.00%) MS Office
3 28 (70.00%) Windows XP
4 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
5 20 (50.00%) Blackberry
5 20 (50.00%) SCCM
6 19 (47.50%) Kaspersky
6 19 (47.50%) Apple
6 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
7 18 (45.00%) Cisco
8 15 (37.50%) MS Excel
9 14 (35.00%) VMware
10 12 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (17.50%) McAfee
11 7 (17.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (12.50%) VPN
14 4 (10.00%) VoIP
14 4 (10.00%) Citrix
14 4 (10.00%) Oracle
15 3 (7.500%) SQL
15 3 (7.500%) MS Exchange
15 3 (7.500%) Windows Vista
15 3 (7.500%) Migration
15 3 (7.500%) Security Cleared
15 3 (7.500%) Exchange Server 2007
16 2 (5.000%) SC Cleared
16 2 (5.000%) HP
17 1 (2.500%) Back Office

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.500%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.500%) MS Exchange
1 3 (7.500%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 30 (75.00%) MS Office
2 15 (37.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) VPN
2 4 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (2.500%) 3G
3 1 (2.500%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 14 (35.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (27.50%) Help Desk Support
4 9 (22.50%) Helpdesk Technician
4 9 (22.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 9 (22.50%) Service Desk Technician
4 9 (22.50%) Help Desk Support Technician
4 9 (22.50%) Support Technician
4 9 (22.50%) Desktop Support
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (7.500%) Rollout Engineer
6 3 (7.500%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.500%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Field Engineer
8 1 (2.500%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.500%) Technical Support
8 1 (2.500%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 12 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.500%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.500%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (70.00%) Windows XP
3 7 (17.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.500%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.500%) Migration
2 1 (2.500%) ITIL
2 1 (2.500%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (2.500%) Software Testing
2 1 (2.500%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.500%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.500%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.000%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Kaspersky
1 19 (47.50%) Apple
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Cisco
3 14 (35.00%) VMware
4 7 (17.50%) McAfee
5 4 (10.00%) Citrix
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.000%) HP
7 1 (2.500%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.500%) Panasonic
7 1 (2.500%) LANDesk
7 1 (2.500%) AppSense
Systems Engineer, Windows, 2nd Line, 3rd Line
Yeovil, Somerset
the successful candidate will have the ability to deal with backoffice issues with Active Directory, Exchange, Windows Server etc but also the willingness to get involved in the...
Sanderson
Rate: £150 - £230 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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