The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 7 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 of the Operating Systems 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 29 31 39
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 15 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.286% 2.367% 0.551%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.30% 13.56% 3.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 2
Average daily rate £488 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.70% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £172 £227 £430
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £275 £260
% change year-on-year
+3.63% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
53 59 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.14% 17.46% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 26
Average daily rate £363 £338 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -20.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £167 £292
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.42 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.55 £22.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows 7
Wiltshire

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Windows 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Swindon Windows 7 Daily Rate Histogram

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 Swindon region.

Swindon Windows 7 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) WCF
3 9 (37.50%) Silverlight
3 9 (37.50%) RIA
3 9 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (37.50%) MSTest
3 9 (37.50%) Moq
3 9 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 9 (37.50%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 9 (37.50%) UML
3 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 9 (37.50%) IIS
3 9 (37.50%) C#
3 9 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 9 (37.50%) Web Services
3 9 (37.50%) Client/Server
3 9 (37.50%) ESRI
3 9 (37.50%) ArcGIS
4 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
4 7 (29.17%) .NET
4 7 (29.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
5 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (16.67%) MS Office
7 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.50%) Finance

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 9 (37.50%) WCF
1 9 (37.50%) Silverlight
1 9 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 9 (37.50%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 9 (37.50%) Web Services
2 7 (29.17%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) IIS
1 9 (37.50%) ArcGIS
2 2 (8.333%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.167%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
2 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) VLAN
2 1 (4.167%) WLAN
2 1 (4.167%) DHCP
2 1 (4.167%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) MSTest
1 9 (37.50%) Moq
1 9 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 7 (29.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.167%) MSI
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Software Programmer
1 9 (37.50%) C# Programmer
1 9 (37.50%) Software Developer
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
1 9 (37.50%) Programmer
1 9 (37.50%) C# Developer
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Developer
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Programmer
2 7 (29.17%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Silverlight Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Citrix Server Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Training Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) RIA
1 9 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Unit Testing
1 9 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
3 2 (8.333%) Change Management
4 1 (4.167%) Time Management
4 1 (4.167%) Service Desk Management
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.167%) Benchmarking
4 1 (4.167%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (8.333%) VBScript
2 2 (8.333%) VB
2 2 (8.333%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.167%) MCITP
5 1 (4.167%) MCSE
5 1 (4.167%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.333%) XenApp
2 2 (8.333%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.167%) vSphere
3 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.167%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (8.333%) MOM
1 2 (8.333%) SCOM
2 1 (4.167%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) ESRI
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.333%) Dell
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (4.167%) ProCurve
4 1 (4.167%) HP
4 1 (4.167%) Cisco
4 1 (4.167%) IBM
4 1 (4.167%) Lotus
4 1 (4.167%) Symantec