The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of PlateSpin products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PlateSpin 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 Vendors for the West Sussex 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within PlateSpin Ltd.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PlateSpin
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PlateSpin 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £425 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
200 270 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 54.20% 42.86% 44.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 134 88
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £488 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 23
Average hourly rate £25.75 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.58% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 £30.00 £34.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
PlateSpin
South East

PlateSpin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PlateSpin across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Sussex PlateSpin Jobs Demand Trend

PlateSpin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing PlateSpin 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 PlateSpin.

1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) SAN

PlateSpin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing PlateSpin 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 PlateSpin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
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