The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin 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 Thin Client 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Thin Client
Rank 98 124 112
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -12
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 10 12 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.496% 0.371% 0.353%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.475% 1.902% 1.984%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 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 £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.02 £16.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.37% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -24.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
404 631 504
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.03% 19.51% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 335 215
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £264 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 56
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Thin Client Jobs Demand Trend

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Thin Client across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West Thin Client Daily Rate Histogram

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thin Client within the South West 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £500 -
Devon -2 2 £158 -
Wiltshire -4 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Thin 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 Thin Client.

1 16 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 15 (93.75%) Windows
3 12 (75.00%) Citrix
3 12 (75.00%) VMware
4 11 (68.75%) Cisco
5 10 (62.50%) Sophos
5 10 (62.50%) Firewall
5 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
6 9 (56.25%) Juniper
6 9 (56.25%) VPN
6 9 (56.25%) C
7 8 (50.00%) Lumension
8 6 (37.50%) ITIL
9 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
10 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
11 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
11 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
11 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (12.50%) Dell
12 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
12 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
12 2 (12.50%) DNS
12 2 (12.50%) SLA
12 2 (12.50%) DHCP
12 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
12 2 (12.50%) Solaris
12 2 (12.50%) MS Office
12 2 (12.50%) NetBackup

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Thin 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 Thin Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) JPA
1 1 (6.250%) REST
1 1 (6.250%) JSF
1 1 (6.250%) Ajax
1 1 (6.250%) Java EE
1 1 (6.250%) JSON
1 1 (6.250%) CSS
1 1 (6.250%) Web Services
1 1 (6.250%) XML
1 1 (6.250%) XSLT
1 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 9 (56.25%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (6.250%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.250%) SAN
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) LAN
4 1 (6.250%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (6.250%) Law
1 1 (6.250%) Legal
1 1 (6.250%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Build Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Assistant
4 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Assistant
4 1 (6.250%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.250%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (6.250%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.250%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
3 1 (6.250%) Migration
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C
2 1 (6.250%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.250%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.250%) vSphere
3 1 (6.250%) XenApp
3 1 (6.250%) Terminal Server
3 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) SCOM
2 1 (6.250%) HP SIM
2 1 (6.250%) ZENworks
2 1 (6.250%) DameWare
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Citrix
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 11 (68.75%) Cisco
3 10 (62.50%) Sophos
4 9 (56.25%) Juniper
5 8 (50.00%) Lumension
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
7 2 (12.50%) Dell
7 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (6.250%) Wyse
8 1 (6.250%) NetApp
8 1 (6.250%) Nokia
8 1 (6.250%) Novell
8 1 (6.250%) LANDesk
8 1 (6.250%) JBoss
8 1 (6.250%) Oracle
8 1 (6.250%) EMC
8 1 (6.250%) HP