The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 18 5
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 18 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 29.41% 10.59% 24.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 86.21% 54.55% 78.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 13
Average daily rate £232 £240 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -26.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £240 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £282 £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 14
Average hourly rate £15.70 £12.42 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.40% -17.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.10 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.85 £16.40 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
58 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 34.12% 19.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 23
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 £155 £245 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £350 £361
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
Average hourly rate £16.20 £12.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.24% -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 £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
South West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 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 +20 24 £315 -
Bath +7 9 £160 -
Yeovil - 5 £240 -
Weston-super-Mare - 2 £95 -
Clevedon - 1 - -
Windows
South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 42 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 40 (51.95%) Windows 7
3 37 (48.05%) MS Office
3 37 (48.05%) Windows XP
4 34 (44.16%) Microsoft
5 26 (33.77%) VMware
6 22 (28.57%) Cisco
6 22 (28.57%) Blackberry
6 22 (28.57%) SCCM
7 20 (25.97%) Kaspersky
8 19 (24.68%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (24.68%) Apple
9 18 (23.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 16 (20.78%) MS Excel
11 15 (19.48%) Windows Server 2003
12 13 (16.88%) Citrix
12 13 (16.88%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (11.69%) MS Exchange
13 9 (11.69%) SQL Server
14 8 (10.39%) Oracle
14 8 (10.39%) McAfee
15 7 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (9.091%) TCP/IP
15 7 (9.091%) VPN
15 7 (9.091%) ITIL
15 7 (9.091%) SQL
15 7 (9.091%) Security Cleared
15 7 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
16 6 (7.792%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (7.792%) HP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (1.299%) WCF
1 1 (1.299%) WPF
1 1 (1.299%) Silverlight
1 1 (1.299%) Middleware
1 1 (1.299%) XML
1 1 (1.299%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (11.69%) MS Exchange
2 6 (7.792%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (6.494%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (6.494%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (2.597%) nginx
4 2 (2.597%) Apache
4 2 (2.597%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.299%) IIS
5 1 (1.299%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.299%) Lync
Applications
1 37 (48.05%) MS Office
2 16 (20.78%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.299%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 7 (9.091%) VPN
2 5 (6.494%) DHCP
3 4 (5.195%) Internet
3 4 (5.195%) VoIP
3 4 (5.195%) SAN
4 3 (3.896%) DNS
5 1 (1.299%) Firewall
5 1 (1.299%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.299%) 3G
5 1 (1.299%) Network Security
5 1 (1.299%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.597%) MySQL
5 1 (1.299%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.299%) MS Access
5 1 (1.299%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (2.597%) Git (software)
1 2 (2.597%) Subversion
1 2 (2.597%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (2.597%) Selenium
2 1 (1.299%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.299%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.299%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (2.597%) Back Office
2 1 (1.299%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.299%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) 2nd Line Support
2 24 (31.17%) Support Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Help Desk Support
4 11 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 10 (12.99%) Service Desk Technician
5 10 (12.99%) Help Desk Support Technician
5 10 (12.99%) Support Technician
5 10 (12.99%) Helpdesk Technician
5 10 (12.99%) Desktop Support
6 9 (11.69%) Analyst
7 6 (7.792%) IT Support
7 6 (7.792%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (7.792%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.494%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (6.494%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.494%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (6.494%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (5.195%) Teradata DBA
9 4 (5.195%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Blackberry
2 13 (16.88%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.597%) Open Source
4 1 (1.299%) Clustering
4 1 (1.299%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.299%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.299%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (51.95%) Windows 7
2 37 (48.05%) Windows XP
3 18 (23.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (19.48%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (6.494%) UNIX
6 4 (5.195%) Windows Vista
7 3 (3.896%) Linux
7 3 (3.896%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.597%) Windows 8
8 2 (2.597%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (2.597%) Windows 2000
8 2 (2.597%) Solaris
8 2 (2.597%) FreeBSD
9 1 (1.299%) AIX
9 1 (1.299%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (9.091%) ITIL
2 3 (3.896%) Migration
3 2 (2.597%) Change Control
3 2 (2.597%) Test Scripting
3 2 (2.597%) PRINCE2
3 2 (2.597%) Software Testing
3 2 (2.597%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (1.299%) Change Management
4 1 (1.299%) Scrum
4 1 (1.299%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (1.299%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (1.299%) Configuration Management
4 1 (1.299%) E-Commerce
4 1 (1.299%) SOA
4 1 (1.299%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (1.299%) Test Automation
4 1 (1.299%) Test Strategy
4 1 (1.299%) ITIL V2
4 1 (1.299%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.091%) SQL
2 3 (3.896%) C
3 2 (2.597%) Perl
4 1 (1.299%) LINC
4 1 (1.299%) VB
4 1 (1.299%) C#
4 1 (1.299%) C++
4 1 (1.299%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.195%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.195%) MCSA
2 4 (5.195%) OCA
2 4 (5.195%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (2.597%) MCSE
3 2 (2.597%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.597%) ISEB
3 2 (2.597%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.299%) MCITP
4 1 (1.299%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (1.299%) MCP
4 1 (1.299%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.299%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.494%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 19 (24.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.195%) XenApp
4 2 (2.597%) vSphere
4 2 (2.597%) VMware Server
4 2 (2.597%) VMware ESX
4 2 (2.597%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.299%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (2.597%) Puppet
2 2 (2.597%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.299%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (44.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (33.77%) VMware
3 22 (28.57%) Cisco
4 20 (25.97%) Kaspersky
5 19 (24.68%) Apple
6 13 (16.88%) Citrix
7 8 (10.39%) Oracle
7 8 (10.39%) McAfee
8 6 (7.792%) HP
9 2 (2.597%) SAP
10 1 (1.299%) AppSense
10 1 (1.299%) Brocade
10 1 (1.299%) LANDesk
10 1 (1.299%) StorageTek
10 1 (1.299%) IBM
10 1 (1.299%) Adobe
10 1 (1.299%) Veeam
10 1 (1.299%) Panasonic
10 1 (1.299%) ProCurve
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