The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fat Client
Rank 104 124 119
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -5
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 6 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.292% 0.415% 0.265%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.408% 2.241% 1.559%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £500 £438 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +18.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £411 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+28.51% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.02 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.37% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.89 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-19.46% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
426 580 513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.73% 18.50% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 305 227
Average daily rate £370 £360 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -0.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £250 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 38 50
Average hourly rate £17.50 £31.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.54% +34.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.62 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
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Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South West Fat Client Jobs Demand Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fat Client across the South West region.

South West Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fat Client across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South West Fat Client Daily Rate Histogram

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the South West region.

South West Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dorset -3 1 - -
Wiltshire -5 1 - -
Bristol - - - - 1
Somerset - - - -
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Fat Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 11 (84.62%) Citrix
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
3 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (76.92%) Cisco
4 9 (69.23%) VPN
4 9 (69.23%) Sophos
5 8 (61.54%) Juniper
5 8 (61.54%) C
5 8 (61.54%) Lumension
5 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
5 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) ITIL
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
7 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
7 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (15.38%) Cisco PIX
8 2 (15.38%) DNS
8 2 (15.38%) SLA
8 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
8 2 (15.38%) MS Office
8 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
8 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
8 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
8 2 (15.38%) Solaris
8 2 (15.38%) DHCP
9 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 2 (15.38%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.692%) LAN
4 1 (7.692%) WAN
4 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (7.692%) Law
1 1 (7.692%) Legal
1 1 (7.692%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Systems Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Build Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.692%) Help Desk Assistant
4 1 (7.692%) IT Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Solaris
2 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.692%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C
2 1 (7.692%) VBScript
2 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.692%) Terminal Server
3 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (7.692%) XenApp
3 1 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) ZENworks
1 1 (7.692%) DameWare
1 1 (7.692%) NetBackup
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
1 1 (7.692%) SCOM
1 1 (7.692%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Citrix
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 10 (76.92%) Cisco
3 9 (69.23%) Sophos
4 8 (61.54%) Juniper
4 8 (61.54%) Lumension
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
7 1 (7.692%) HP
7 1 (7.692%) Dell
7 1 (7.692%) EMC
7 1 (7.692%) Novell
7 1 (7.692%) Wyse
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