The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Terminal Server 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 System Software category for the South East 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
Terminal Server
Rank 220 241 258
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +17
Contract jobs citing Terminal Server 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.039% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.299% 0.122% 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £388
% change year-on-year
-3.44% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £18.88 - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.19 £32.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-44.03% +85.71%
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1005 822 936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 12.91% 8.083% 8.870%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 335 347
Average daily rate £340 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 144 151
Average hourly rate £18.00 £16.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -10.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £41.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Terminal Server
England

Terminal Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Server across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

South East Terminal Server Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Terminal Server across the South East region.

South East Terminal Server Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Server across the South East region.

South East Terminal Server Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Server within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hampshire +1 3 £300 +33.33%
Terminal Server
England

Terminal Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Terminal Server 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 Terminal Server.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (71.43%) DNS
3 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
4 4 (57.14%) Citrix
4 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) vSphere
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (42.86%) Windows 2000 Server
5 3 (42.86%) Release Management
5 3 (42.86%) HP
5 3 (42.86%) Dell
5 3 (42.86%) Juniper
5 3 (42.86%) SAN
5 3 (42.86%) Firewall
5 3 (42.86%) IPsec
5 3 (42.86%) MCSA
5 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 3 (42.86%) WLAN
5 3 (42.86%) WAN
5 3 (42.86%) DHCP
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
6 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
6 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
6 2 (28.57%) MCSE
6 2 (28.57%) Symantec
6 2 (28.57%) Project Management

Terminal Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Terminal Server 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 Terminal Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) IPsec
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) French Language
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Wintel Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Server Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Release Management
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
1 1 (14.29%) VB
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) MCSA
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) Dell
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
4 2 (28.57%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Veeam
5 1 (14.29%) EMC