The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 31 33 36
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.380% 0.766% 0.336%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.083% 5.405% 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £500 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+72.41% +5.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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 Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
48 37 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 18.25% 14.18% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 30
Average daily rate £300 £250 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £197 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
Average hourly rate £170.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+529.62% -22.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Thin Client
Yorkshire

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Thin Client Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -1 1 £500 -
Thin Client
Yorkshire

Thin Client
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) AppSense

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) AppSense
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