The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wembley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 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 for the Wembley 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wembley 60.00% 10.00% 40.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.71% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.75 £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.78% -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Wembley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wembley 70.00% 10.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.75 £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.78% -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows
London

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wembley 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 Wembley region.

Wembley 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 Wembley region.

Wembley Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wembley 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 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (40.00%) Dell
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
4 3 (30.00%) NHS
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 3 (30.00%) DHCP
4 3 (30.00%) HP
4 3 (30.00%) Broadcom
4 3 (30.00%) SCVMM
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (20.00%) SCOM
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (10.00%) Symantec
6 1 (10.00%) SMTP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wembley 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 (10.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) SMTP
4 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Rollout Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCVMM
2 2 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Dell
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix