The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Suffolk 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 20 30 35
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 6 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 4.255% 3.876% 0.943%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.43% 11.90% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+1.81% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £24.75 £18.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £13.90
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.91%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
28 84 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 19.86% 32.56% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 17
Average daily rate £313 £260 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.19% -5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £233 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 4
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +29.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Suffolk Windows 7 Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Ipswich +6 2 - - 1
Lowestoft - - - -
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (29.41%) C#
4 5 (29.41%) .NET
4 5 (29.41%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (29.41%) Silverlight
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (23.53%) VB
5 4 (23.53%) MS Office
6 3 (17.65%) MCSE
6 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
6 3 (17.65%) SOA
6 3 (17.65%) DHCP
6 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (17.65%) DNS
6 3 (17.65%) MCP

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 5 (29.41%) Silverlight
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) LINQ
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (11.76%) MSMQ
2 2 (11.76%) NHibernate
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.76%) WCF
2 2 (11.76%) WPF
3 1 (5.882%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (29.41%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
4 1 (5.882%) WorkSite
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Law
2 1 (5.882%) Legal
2 1 (5.882%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Rollout Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.882%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.882%) Training Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) IT Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Trainer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.882%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
1 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) SOA
3 2 (11.76%) MVC
3 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 1 (5.882%) Document Management
4 1 (5.882%) Practice Management
4 1 (5.882%) Validation
4 1 (5.882%) Regression Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Manual Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.882%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) VB
3 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.882%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCP
1 3 (17.65%) MCSE
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (17.65%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle
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