The first table below looks at the demand for Business Desktop Deployment skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Desktop Deployment 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 Systems Management category.

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 Business Desktop Deployment (BDD)
Rank 524 581 580
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment 5 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.005% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.157% 0.084% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £23.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.38
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3192 3573 3609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.880% 6.127% 5.912%
Number of daily rates quoted 1794 1824 1718
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 236
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.81 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.94% -12.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%

Business Desktop Deployment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Business Desktop Deployment Jobs Demand Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment within the UK.

Business Desktop Deployment Daily Rate Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment within the UK.

Business Desktop Deployment Hourly Rate Trend

Business Desktop Deployment
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Desktop Deployment within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +48 5 - -
London +42 5 - -
City of London +15 1 - -

Business Desktop Deployment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Business Desktop Deployment 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 Business Desktop Deployment.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) SCCM
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (50.00%) InstallShield
3 3 (50.00%) VBScript
3 3 (50.00%) Sysprep
4 2 (33.33%) Content Management
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) SMS
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Novell
5 1 (16.67%) Nagios
5 1 (16.67%) ZENworks
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) JMX
5 1 (16.67%) SLA
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) MCSE
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce

Business Desktop Deployment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Business Desktop Deployment 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 Business Desktop Deployment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) JMX
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) CSS3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMS
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) InstallShield
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) EasyMock
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Content Management
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL V2
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (50.00%) Sysprep
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) ZENworks
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Novell