The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Wind River products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wind River over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Wind River Systems.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wind River
Rank - 560 585
Contract jobs citing Wind River 0 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.018% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £425 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21806 27110 28885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.06% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11630 13854 14453
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1173 1314 1625
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.56 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.87% -2.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%

Wind River
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wind River within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Wind River Jobs Demand Trend

Wind River
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wind River Daily Rate Trend

Wind River
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wind River Hourly Rate Trend

Wind River
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Wind River 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 Wind River.

1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Serena
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) YUM

Wind River
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Wind River 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 Wind River. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) YUM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Serena