The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 39 39 36
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.333% 0.826% 0.315%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.887% 4.545% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £438 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
53 66 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 17.67% 18.18% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 17
Average daily rate £430 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £263 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £525 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
Average hourly rate £13.00 £24.25 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.39% -21.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £23.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £32.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Thin Client
Wiltshire

Thin Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Thin Client Hourly Rate Trend

Thin Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) assyst
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix

Thin Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) Novell
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco