The first table below looks at the demand for Windows CE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows CE 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 of the Operating Systems 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows CE (WinCE)
Rank 524 530 546
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +16
Contract jobs citing Windows CE 17 35 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.060% 0.064%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.170% 0.295% 0.310%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
Average daily rate £250 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.43% +13.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £238
% change year-on-year
-23.07% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 10
Average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% -1.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -1.58%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9982 11864 12923
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.54% 20.33% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5365 5902 6319
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 1188 1264
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.31 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

Windows CE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windows CE Jobs Demand Trend

Windows CE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows CE Daily Rate Trend

Windows CE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows CE Hourly Rate Trend

Windows CE
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows CE within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +29 11 £250 -32.88%
Scotland -15 5 £250 +4.16%
North West +12 4 £250 -42.85%
East of England +19 3 - -
Cambridgeshire +14 3 - -
Cambridge +12 3 - -
Glasgow -23 3 £250 +4.16%
Cheshire - 3 £250 -
South East +15 2 - -
Fife -2 2 - -
Hampshire -5 2 - -
South Yorkshire +2 1 - -
West Midlands 0 1 £325 -
Yorkshire -3 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £325 -

Windows CE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (77.14%) C++
3 24 (68.57%) C
4 22 (62.86%) C#
5 15 (42.86%) MFC
6 10 (28.57%) Windows Mobile
7 7 (20.00%) Android
7 7 (20.00%) Java
8 6 (17.14%) SQL
9 5 (14.29%) .NET
9 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
9 5 (14.29%) CSS
9 5 (14.29%) Linux
9 5 (14.29%) Web Services
9 5 (14.29%) Embedded C
9 5 (14.29%) HTML5
9 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
9 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
10 4 (11.43%) WCF
10 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
10 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (11.43%) Windows XP
10 4 (11.43%) Servlets
10 4 (11.43%) OO
10 4 (11.43%) Python
11 3 (8.571%) PhD
11 3 (8.571%) VC++
11 3 (8.571%) XSL
11 3 (8.571%) XSLT
11 3 (8.571%) Windows 2000

Windows CE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (42.86%) MFC
2 5 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) CSS
2 5 (14.29%) Web Services
2 5 (14.29%) HTML5
3 4 (11.43%) WCF
3 4 (11.43%) Servlets
4 3 (8.571%) XSL
4 3 (8.571%) XSLT
4 3 (8.571%) ASP.NET
4 3 (8.571%) HTML
4 3 (8.571%) jQuery
4 3 (8.571%) JSON
5 2 (5.714%) GTK+
5 2 (5.714%) Qt
5 2 (5.714%) CSS3
6 1 (2.857%) SyncML
6 1 (2.857%) WAP
6 1 (2.857%) J2EE
6 1 (2.857%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.857%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.857%) Apache
1 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) LAN
1 3 (8.571%) WAN
2 1 (2.857%) Wireless
2 1 (2.857%) RTCP
2 1 (2.857%) RTP
2 1 (2.857%) RFID
2 1 (2.857%) HTTP
2 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.857%) SSL
2 1 (2.857%) SMS
2 1 (2.857%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.571%) SQLite
2 1 (2.857%) GIS
2 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Ant
1 1 (2.857%) Concordion
1 1 (2.857%) Maven
General
1 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.714%) Retail
2 2 (5.714%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.857%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile Developer
2 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
3 3 (8.571%) Web Developer
3 3 (8.571%) Applications Developer
3 3 (8.571%) Windows Mobile Developer
3 3 (8.571%) .NET Applications Developer
3 3 (8.571%) Web Applications Developer
3 3 (8.571%) .NET Web Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (5.714%) IT Support
4 2 (5.714%) Programmer
4 2 (5.714%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (5.714%) Analyst
5 1 (2.857%) Development Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.571%) AS400
3 1 (2.857%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.857%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (28.57%) Windows Mobile
3 7 (20.00%) Android
4 5 (14.29%) Linux
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (11.43%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.571%) Windows 2000
6 3 (8.571%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (8.571%) Windows Vista
7 2 (5.714%) Windows 8
7 2 (5.714%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.857%) UNIX
8 1 (2.857%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.857%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.43%) OO
2 3 (8.571%) MVC
2 3 (8.571%) Multithreading
2 3 (8.571%) Web Application Development
2 3 (8.571%) Web Development
2 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (8.571%) Data Analysis
3 2 (5.714%) TDD
3 2 (5.714%) Unit Testing
3 2 (5.714%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (2.857%) E-business
4 1 (2.857%) UML
4 1 (2.857%) E-Commerce
4 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (77.14%) C++
2 24 (68.57%) C
3 22 (62.86%) C#
4 7 (20.00%) Java
5 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 5 (14.29%) Embedded C
7 4 (11.43%) Python
8 3 (8.571%) VC++
8 3 (8.571%) Embedded C++
8 3 (8.571%) XPath
9 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
9 1 (2.857%) AWK
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) PhD
2 2 (5.714%) Degree
3 1 (2.857%) HND
3 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.857%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 3 (8.571%) Citrix
2 1 (2.857%) Mapinfo
2 1 (2.857%) ESRI
2 1 (2.857%) HP
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle
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