The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Job Titles advertised for the Staines 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank - - 33
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines - - 0.415%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.435%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £22.88
All Job Titles
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
126 126 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 98.44% 93.33% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 62
Average daily rate £400 £375 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -15.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £175 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £517 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
Average hourly rate £30.63 £42.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.08% +5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Specialist
Surrey

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Staines region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Staines Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Staines region.

Staines Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Staines region.

Staines Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 6 (100.00%) AppSense
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) XenApp
1 6 (100.00%) XenServer
1 6 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 6 (100.00%) Lumension
1 6 (100.00%) CloudStack
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 8
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) MS Excel

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 8
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) XenApp
1 6 (100.00%) XenServer
1 6 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) AppSense
1 6 (100.00%) Lumension