The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wintel Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Specialist
Rank 521 559 557
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Specialist 13 27 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.046% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.049% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 15
Average daily rate £330 £324 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -13.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £256 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £376 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £240 £324 £375
% change year-on-year
-25.92% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Wintel Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wintel Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Wintel Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wintel Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wintel Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Wintel Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Wintel Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wintel Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Specialist
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 Wintel Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +44 12 £330 +1.85%
North West +9 6 £240 -25.92%
Cheshire +4 5 £240 -25.92%
Chester - 5 £240 -
South East +17 3 £330 -8.33%
London +29 2 £463 +44.53%
Surrey +19 2 - -
Leatherhead - 2 - -
City of London +9 1 £475 +72.72%
Merseyside +2 1 - -
South Yorkshire -2 1 £225 -1.09%
Yorkshire -4 1 £225 -29.68%
Scotland -17 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £330 -
Sheffield - 1 £225 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Wintel Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Specialist in their job title 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 with Wintel Specialist in their job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 8 (47.06%) HP
4 7 (41.18%) Citrix
4 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
5 6 (35.29%) DHCP
5 6 (35.29%) DNS
5 6 (35.29%) Migration
6 5 (29.41%) SCCM
6 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
6 5 (29.41%) ITIL
7 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
7 4 (23.53%) SAN
7 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
7 4 (23.53%) SCOM
7 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
8 3 (17.65%) Finance
8 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (17.65%) Clustering
8 3 (17.65%) Dell
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (17.65%) Oracle
8 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000
8 3 (17.65%) MCSE
8 3 (17.65%) Windows NT
8 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
9 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery

Wintel Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Specialist in their job title 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 with Wintel Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (5.882%) Lync
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.882%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Line 50
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) SAN
3 1 (5.882%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.882%) LAN
3 1 (5.882%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 1 (5.882%) French Language
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) AS400
3 1 (5.882%) Derivative
3 1 (5.882%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000
4 3 (17.65%) Windows NT
5 1 (5.882%) Solaris
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.882%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (17.65%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.882%) XenApp
3 1 (5.882%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) SCOM
3 2 (11.76%) WSUS
4 1 (5.882%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.882%) Backup Exec
4 1 (5.882%) Legato
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) HP
3 7 (41.18%) Citrix
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) Dell
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee
6 2 (11.76%) Baan
6 2 (11.76%) Sage
7 1 (5.882%) Cisco
7 1 (5.882%) IBM