The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Wiltshire 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
Fat Client
Rank 51 47 52
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 1 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.223% 1.133% 0.357%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.020% 5.738% 2.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £416 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.33% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.51 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
-29.21% -7.86%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
98 122 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 21.88% 19.74% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 62 36
Average daily rate £413 £375 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +12.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £123
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £525 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 11
Average hourly rate £15.50 £36.25 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.24% +20.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.65 £16.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £44.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Fat Client
South West

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Wiltshire Fat Client Jobs Demand Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fat Client across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Fat Client across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the Wiltshire region 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
Swindon -4 1 - -
Fat Client
South West

Fat Client
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) assyst
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) ZENworks
2 1 (50.00%) HP

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) Novell
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco