Windows 8 Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 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 8 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 8
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.149% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.601% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £95 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £213
% change year-on-year
- +48.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 - -
Search 5 Windows 8 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 8
England

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 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
Somerset - 2 £95 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Lync
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (33.33%) LINC
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Lync
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) Trainer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Trainer
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) LINC
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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