Windows Contracts in Stevenage
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Stevenage 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
Rank 9 2 5
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 18 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 16.22% 31.58% 30.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.00% 94.74% 73.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
Average daily rate £250 £280 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -5.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £250 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £310 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 9
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.45 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.45%
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All Operating Systems
Stevenage
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 25 19 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 67.57% 33.33% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 9
Average daily rate £250 £280 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £250 £103
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 £310 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £34.25 £35.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.64% -3.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
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Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stevenage Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Stevenage Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (37.50%) Symantec
4 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
4 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
5 5 (31.25%) SQL
6 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (25.00%) Remedy
6 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
6 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) VMware
6 4 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (18.75%) Retail
7 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (18.75%) SCCM
7 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
7 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
7 3 (18.75%) Linux
8 2 (12.50%) MS Office
8 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
8 2 (12.50%) ClearCase
8 2 (12.50%) Apple

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) Middleware
1 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Office
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) LAN
1 1 (6.250%) WAN
1 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) ClearCase
1 2 (12.50%) ClearQuest
1 2 (12.50%) MSI
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (6.250%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (6.250%) Redmine
2 1 (6.250%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (18.75%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Messaging Specialist
1 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Packager
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.250%) IT Support
3 1 (6.250%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (6.250%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.250%) Messaging Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
4 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (18.75%) Linux
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
6 2 (12.50%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
3 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Software Distribution
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.250%) Project Management
4 1 (6.250%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) SysML
4 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.250%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.250%) VBScript
3 1 (6.250%) VB
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.250%) Degree
3 1 (6.250%) MCTS
3 1 (6.250%) MCITP
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
3 2 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Symantec
3 4 (25.00%) Remedy
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) Apple
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (12.50%) McAfee
5 2 (12.50%) Sophos
5 2 (12.50%) Retalix
5 2 (12.50%) Veeam
6 1 (6.250%) Serena
6 1 (6.250%) HP
6 1 (6.250%) Oracle
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