The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 Welwyn Garden City 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
Rank 9 4 1
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 2 9 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 7.143% 20.45% 44.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 69.23% 81.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
Average daily rate - £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.66% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
Average hourly rate £14.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.44% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.38 £16.72 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.04% +11.46%
All Operating Systems
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2 13 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 7.143% 29.55% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 6
Average daily rate - £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
Average hourly rate £14.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.44% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Windows
Hertfordshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing Windows 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.

1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Orchard
2 1 (20.00%) YUI
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) YUI
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Services Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Time Management
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (20.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Orchard
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
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