Windows 7 Contracts in the South West
 
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 South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 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 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
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 21 40 87
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +47
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 136 124 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 6.743% 3.833% 1.237%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.25% 17.34% 6.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 64 14
Average daily rate £273 £311 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.37% -23.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £111 £177 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £413 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £287 £265
% change year-on-year
-5.84% +8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 9
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.42 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £30.00 £18.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
Search 22 Windows 7 jobs in the South West
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 499 715 561
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.74% 22.10% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 348 242
Average daily rate £325 £415 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.68% +18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 85
Average hourly rate £14.02 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.90% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 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
Bristol +6 29 £320 +6.66%
Somerset +25 27 £240 -20.00%
Gloucestershire +47 21 £200 -33.33%
Dorset +13 21 £118 -54.80%
Wiltshire -4 18 £525 +97.55%
Devon -9 14 £300 -7.69%
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 236 (100.00%) Windows
2 119 (50.42%) Windows XP
3 86 (36.44%) Active Directory
4 73 (30.93%) MS Office
5 55 (23.31%) Windows Server 2008
6 54 (22.88%) Microsoft
7 49 (20.76%) Security Cleared
8 42 (17.80%) SCCM
9 41 (17.37%) Citrix
9 41 (17.37%) ITIL
10 37 (15.68%) Blackberry
11 35 (14.83%) VMware
11 35 (14.83%) DV Cleared
12 34 (14.41%) MS Excel
13 33 (13.98%) Windows Server 2003
14 29 (12.29%) Migration
15 27 (11.44%) SC Cleared
16 26 (11.02%) Apple
17 25 (10.59%) Cisco
18 24 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
19 21 (8.898%) MS Exchange
20 19 (8.051%) Kaspersky
21 18 (7.627%) Microsoft App-V
22 17 (7.203%) MSI
22 17 (7.203%) HP
23 16 (6.780%) Finance
23 16 (6.780%) PowerShell
24 15 (6.356%) C#
25 14 (5.932%) Visual Studio
25 14 (5.932%) Web Services

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 14 (5.932%) Web Services
1 14 (5.932%) Application Packaging
1 14 (5.932%) Silverlight
2 13 (5.508%) .NET
3 8 (3.390%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 8 (3.390%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 8 (3.390%) WCF
4 7 (2.966%) Software Packaging
4 7 (2.966%) XML
5 6 (2.542%) REST
5 6 (2.542%) XSD
5 6 (2.542%) Servlets
5 6 (2.542%) J2EE
5 6 (2.542%) CSS
5 6 (2.542%) HTML
5 6 (2.542%) Ajax
5 6 (2.542%) ArcObjects
5 6 (2.542%) Dojo
5 6 (2.542%) Apache Flex
5 6 (2.542%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 21 (8.898%) MS Exchange
2 14 (5.932%) ArcGIS
3 13 (5.508%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (3.390%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (3.390%) IIS
5 7 (2.966%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.542%) ArcSDE
7 5 (2.119%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (2.119%) Lync
8 3 (1.271%) CMS
9 1 (0.424%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (0.424%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 73 (30.93%) MS Office
2 34 (14.41%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.847%) Office 365
4 1 (0.424%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.932%) VPN
2 13 (5.508%) VoIP
3 11 (4.661%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.814%) LAN
5 8 (3.390%) Wireless
5 8 (3.390%) Internet
6 7 (2.966%) SAN
7 3 (1.271%) DNS
8 2 (0.847%) DSL
8 2 (0.847%) VLAN
9 1 (0.424%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.424%) TETRA
9 1 (0.424%) Network Security
9 1 (0.424%) PBX
9 1 (0.424%) DHCP
9 1 (0.424%) WLAN
9 1 (0.424%) WAN
9 1 (0.424%) 3G
9 1 (0.424%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.814%) SQL Server 2008
1 9 (3.814%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.542%) GIS
3 1 (0.424%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.424%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 17 (7.203%) MSI
2 14 (5.932%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.390%) MSTest
3 8 (3.390%) Moq
4 6 (2.542%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.271%) InstallShield
5 3 (1.271%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.847%) Wise Package Studio
6 2 (0.847%) TestDirector
General
1 16 (6.780%) Finance
2 11 (4.661%) Telecoms
3 7 (2.966%) Publishing
3 7 (2.966%) Local Government
4 2 (0.847%) Military
5 1 (0.424%) Banking
5 1 (0.424%) Retail
5 1 (0.424%) Legal
5 1 (0.424%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.424%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 45 (19.07%) Desktop Support
2 44 (18.64%) Support Engineer
3 36 (15.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 35 (14.83%) 2nd Line Support
5 22 (9.322%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 18 (7.627%) Applications Packager
7 17 (7.203%) Analyst
7 17 (7.203%) Project Manager
8 16 (6.780%) Developer
8 16 (6.780%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 15 (6.356%) Support Technician
10 14 (5.932%) Help Desk Support
11 12 (5.085%) Administrator
12 11 (4.661%) Deployment Engineer
12 11 (4.661%) Systems Administrator
13 10 (4.237%) Helpdesk Technician
14 9 (3.814%) Service Desk Technician
14 9 (3.814%) 2nd Line Support Technician
14 9 (3.814%) Help Desk Support Technician
15 8 (3.390%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.68%) Blackberry
2 12 (5.085%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (3.390%) Client/Server
3 8 (3.390%) RIA
4 6 (2.542%) Handset
5 4 (1.695%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.271%) iPhone
6 3 (1.271%) NHS
7 2 (0.847%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.847%) CMDB
7 2 (0.847%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.847%) Clustering
8 1 (0.424%) Economics
8 1 (0.424%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 236 (100.00%) Windows
2 119 (50.42%) Windows XP
3 55 (23.31%) Windows Server 2008
4 33 (13.98%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.542%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.542%) Mac OS X
5 6 (2.542%) Linux
6 5 (2.119%) Windows Vista
7 4 (1.695%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.847%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (0.424%) UNIX
9 1 (0.424%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.37%) ITIL
2 29 (12.29%) Migration
3 10 (4.237%) Information Management
4 9 (3.814%) Service Management
5 8 (3.390%) UML
5 8 (3.390%) Unit Testing
5 8 (3.390%) Asset Management
6 7 (2.966%) Project Management
6 7 (2.966%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (2.542%) Software Deployment
7 6 (2.542%) Software Distribution
7 6 (2.542%) Change Management
7 6 (2.542%) Data Modelling
7 6 (2.542%) Data Management
8 5 (2.119%) Compatibility Testing
8 5 (2.119%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (2.119%) Network Management
9 4 (1.695%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (1.695%) PRINCE2
10 3 (1.271%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.780%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.356%) C#
3 9 (3.814%) VB
4 8 (3.390%) SQL
4 8 (3.390%) VBScript
5 6 (2.542%) Python
5 6 (2.542%) Java
5 6 (2.542%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.271%) C
7 2 (0.847%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.424%) C++
8 1 (0.424%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.424%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (20.76%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.83%) DV Cleared
3 27 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.508%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.237%) MCSE
6 8 (3.390%) MCP
7 5 (2.119%) MCDST
7 5 (2.119%) MCITP
7 5 (2.119%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.271%) MCTS
9 2 (0.847%) ISEB
10 1 (0.424%) Degree
10 1 (0.424%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.966%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.271%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 86 (36.44%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.627%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (1.695%) XenApp
4 4 (1.695%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.271%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.847%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.424%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.424%) NFS
7 1 (0.424%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.424%) vSphere
7 1 (0.424%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.424%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (17.80%) SCCM
2 4 (1.695%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.695%) AppDNA
2 4 (1.695%) MOM
2 4 (1.695%) SCOM
3 2 (0.847%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (0.847%) Unicenter
3 2 (0.847%) WSUS
4 1 (0.424%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 54 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.37%) Citrix
3 35 (14.83%) VMware
4 26 (11.02%) Apple
5 25 (10.59%) Cisco
6 19 (8.051%) Kaspersky
7 17 (7.203%) HP
8 14 (5.932%) ESRI
9 7 (2.966%) McAfee
10 6 (2.542%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.119%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.695%) Avaya
12 4 (1.695%) CA
12 4 (1.695%) Oracle
12 4 (1.695%) Altiris
13 3 (1.271%) AppSense
13 3 (1.271%) Adobe
13 3 (1.271%) Dell
14 2 (0.847%) ProCurve
15 1 (0.424%) LANDesk
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