Windows Contracts in Suffolk
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 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 over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 10 2 5
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 24 71 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 15.19% 27.73% 17.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.42% 92.21% 81.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 9
Average daily rate £350 £300 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £198 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £350 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.07% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 3
Average hourly rate £12.00 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.40 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 31 77 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 19.62% 30.08% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 16
Average daily rate £351 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £195 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 3
Average hourly rate £11.75 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.88% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Windows
East of England

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Suffolk Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 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
Ipswich -7 8 £351 +7.84%
Bury St Edmunds +2 5 £265 -
Windows
East of England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.65%) Windows XP
2 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (26.53%) Windows 7
4 11 (22.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (22.45%) C#
4 11 (22.45%) .NET
5 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 10 (20.41%) MS Exchange
5 10 (20.41%) VMware
6 9 (18.37%) MS Office
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (16.33%) WCF
7 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (14.29%) Silverlight
8 7 (14.29%) SharePoint
8 7 (14.29%) DNS
9 6 (12.24%) Cisco
9 6 (12.24%) N-Tier
9 6 (12.24%) DHCP
9 6 (12.24%) Web Services
9 6 (12.24%) ITIL
9 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET
9 6 (12.24%) .NET Framework
9 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 11 (22.45%) .NET
2 8 (16.33%) WCF
3 7 (14.29%) Silverlight
4 6 (12.24%) .NET Framework
4 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET
4 6 (12.24%) Web Services
5 4 (8.163%) CSS
5 4 (8.163%) HTML
5 4 (8.163%) WPF
6 2 (4.082%) LINQ
6 2 (4.082%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (4.082%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (4.082%) Reactive Extensions
6 2 (4.082%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 2 (4.082%) SOAP
6 2 (4.082%) XML
6 2 (4.082%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.082%) Spring
6 2 (4.082%) NHibernate
7 1 (2.041%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.41%) MS Exchange
2 7 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (12.24%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (10.20%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (10.20%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (10.20%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (10.20%) IIS
5 3 (6.122%) Windows Azure
6 2 (4.082%) Apache Pig
6 2 (4.082%) MSMQ
6 2 (4.082%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (2.041%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) MS Office
2 2 (4.082%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.082%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) DNS
2 6 (12.24%) DHCP
3 4 (8.163%) LAN
3 4 (8.163%) SAN
3 4 (8.163%) Firewall
3 4 (8.163%) NAS
3 4 (8.163%) WAN
4 3 (6.122%) WAAS
4 3 (6.122%) VoIP
4 3 (6.122%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.082%) VPN
6 1 (2.041%) Wireless
6 1 (2.041%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.122%) OLTP
2 3 (6.122%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (6.122%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.082%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.082%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.082%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.082%) Apache Hive
3 2 (4.082%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.082%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.041%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.041%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (8.163%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.041%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.041%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.041%) ProC
General
1 2 (4.082%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Developer
2 7 (14.29%) IT Support
3 6 (12.24%) Architect
3 6 (12.24%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (12.24%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.163%) Help Desk Support
4 4 (8.163%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.163%) C# Developer
4 4 (8.163%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (8.163%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (8.163%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (8.163%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (6.122%) Rollout Engineer
5 3 (6.122%) Team Leader
5 3 (6.122%) SQL DBA
5 3 (6.122%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.122%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.122%) DBA
5 3 (6.122%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.082%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.122%) Blackberry
2 3 (6.122%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.041%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Windows XP
1 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (26.53%) Windows 7
3 11 (22.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (6.122%) Windows 2000
5 2 (4.082%) Linux
5 2 (4.082%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.041%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (2.041%) UNIX
6 1 (2.041%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.24%) ITIL
2 5 (10.20%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (8.163%) Migration
3 4 (8.163%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (6.122%) PRINCE2
5 2 (4.082%) CRM
5 2 (4.082%) SOA
5 2 (4.082%) ETL
5 2 (4.082%) PRINCE
5 2 (4.082%) Project Planning
5 2 (4.082%) MVC
5 2 (4.082%) Workflow
5 2 (4.082%) MVVM
6 1 (2.041%) ITIL V3
6 1 (2.041%) Image Processing
6 1 (2.041%) Project Management
6 1 (2.041%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) C#
2 10 (20.41%) SQL
3 3 (6.122%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.122%) VB
3 3 (6.122%) Java
4 2 (4.082%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.041%) VC++
5 1 (2.041%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.041%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.041%) C++
5 1 (2.041%) Delphi
5 1 (2.041%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (8.163%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.122%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.082%) CCNP
3 2 (4.082%) CCIP
3 2 (4.082%) MCITP
3 2 (4.082%) Degree
3 2 (4.082%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.082%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.082%) CCDP
4 1 (2.041%) VCP5
4 1 (2.041%) CCNA
4 1 (2.041%) MCP
4 1 (2.041%) MCSE
4 1 (2.041%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.041%) PMP
4 1 (2.041%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) SLA
1 1 (2.041%) QA
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.163%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.122%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (6.122%) UAG
5 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
6 1 (2.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (4.082%) Backup Exec
1 2 (4.082%) SCCM
2 1 (2.041%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) VMware
3 6 (12.24%) Cisco
4 2 (4.082%) Citrix
4 2 (4.082%) Symantec
4 2 (4.082%) Brocade
5 1 (2.041%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.041%) Brio
5 1 (2.041%) Oracle
5 1 (2.041%) HP
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