The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 54 81 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 12.11% 12.82% 10.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.06% 64.29% 61.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 30
Average daily rate £343 £348 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.43% -15.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £182 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 13
Average hourly rate £13.75 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £14.05 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 £40.35 £32.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.20 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
93 126 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 20.85% 19.94% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 54 45
Average daily rate £350 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £152 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 17
Average hourly rate £16.70 £22.50 £21.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.77% +6.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £42.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows
South West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Windows Daily Rate Trend

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire Windows Daily Rate Histogram

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +2 35 £335 -4.28%
Corsham - 5 £563 -
Chippenham 0 2 £220 +79.59%
Malmesbury 0 1 £170 -38.18%
Salisbury -5 1 £299 -
Windows
South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 53 (43.44%) Security Cleared
2 37 (30.33%) Windows 7
3 36 (29.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
4 35 (28.69%) VMware
5 33 (27.05%) Active Directory
6 25 (20.49%) SQL Server
6 25 (20.49%) DV Cleared
7 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
8 21 (17.21%) C#
8 21 (17.21%) SQL
9 20 (16.39%) Cisco
9 20 (16.39%) SAN
10 19 (15.57%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (13.93%) HP
11 17 (13.93%) Windows XP
11 17 (13.93%) MS Exchange
11 17 (13.93%) .NET
11 17 (13.93%) Web Services
11 17 (13.93%) MS Excel
12 16 (13.11%) ITIL
12 16 (13.11%) Finance
13 15 (12.30%) Silverlight
14 14 (11.48%) WCF
15 13 (10.66%) PowerShell
15 13 (10.66%) MS Office
15 13 (10.66%) SQL Server 2008
16 11 (9.016%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (9.016%) SharePoint
16 11 (9.016%) TCP/IP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 17 (13.93%) .NET
1 17 (13.93%) Web Services
2 15 (12.30%) Silverlight
3 14 (11.48%) WCF
4 9 (7.377%) XML
5 8 (6.557%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (6.557%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 7 (5.738%) HTML5
7 5 (4.098%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.098%) LINQ
7 5 (4.098%) jQuery
7 5 (4.098%) JSP
8 4 (3.279%) WinForms
9 3 (2.459%) Sencha Touch
10 2 (1.639%) XSLT
10 2 (1.639%) ASP.NET
11 1 (0.820%) CSS
11 1 (0.820%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 17 (13.93%) MS Exchange
2 11 (9.016%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.557%) IIS
3 8 (6.557%) ArcGIS
3 8 (6.557%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (4.918%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (4.918%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (4.918%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (3.279%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.820%) WorkSite
7 1 (0.820%) Exchange Server 2000
7 1 (0.820%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 17 (13.93%) MS Excel
2 13 (10.66%) MS Office
3 1 (0.820%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.820%) Maximo
1 1 (0.820%) assyst
1 1 (0.820%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.39%) SAN
2 11 (9.016%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.197%) DHCP
3 10 (8.197%) DNS
4 7 (5.738%) Firewall
5 6 (4.918%) LAN
6 5 (4.098%) WAN
7 4 (3.279%) Network Security
8 3 (2.459%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (2.459%) Internet
8 3 (2.459%) SMTP
8 3 (2.459%) HTTP
8 3 (2.459%) SNMP
8 3 (2.459%) S/MIME
9 2 (1.639%) Intranet
9 2 (1.639%) TETRA
9 2 (1.639%) VLAN
9 2 (1.639%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.639%) NAS
10 1 (0.820%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.66%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.459%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.820%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.820%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.820%) MS Access
4 1 (0.820%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.820%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.820%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.197%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.557%) MSTest
2 8 (6.557%) Moq
3 6 (4.918%) MSI
3 6 (4.918%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (4.098%) Subversion
5 4 (3.279%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 16 (13.11%) Finance
2 10 (8.197%) Telecoms
3 9 (7.377%) Military
4 1 (0.820%) Retail
4 1 (0.820%) Multimedia
4 1 (0.820%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Developer
2 17 (13.93%) Support Engineer
3 13 (10.66%) Analyst
4 11 (9.016%) Architect
5 10 (8.197%) Software Developer
6 9 (7.377%) C# Developer
7 8 (6.557%) Programmer
7 8 (6.557%) Support Analyst
7 8 (6.557%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.557%) Software Programmer
8 7 (5.738%) C# Programmer
8 7 (5.738%) Consultant
8 7 (5.738%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.918%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (4.918%) SharePoint Developer
10 5 (4.098%) .NET Programmer
10 5 (4.098%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (4.098%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.098%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.098%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.557%) Client/Server
1 8 (6.557%) RIA
2 7 (5.738%) Blackberry
3 5 (4.098%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.098%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.279%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.459%) Replication
6 2 (1.639%) Clustering
6 2 (1.639%) Statistics
6 2 (1.639%) RMADS
6 2 (1.639%) Visualisation
6 2 (1.639%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.639%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.820%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.820%) CMDB
7 1 (0.820%) e-Health
7 1 (0.820%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.820%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.820%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.33%) Windows 7
2 36 (29.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (15.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (13.93%) Windows XP
5 7 (5.738%) Android
5 7 (5.738%) UNIX
5 7 (5.738%) Apple iOS
5 7 (5.738%) Windows Phone
6 5 (4.098%) Linux
7 2 (1.639%) BlackBerry OS
7 2 (1.639%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.820%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.820%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (13.11%) ITIL
2 10 (8.197%) UML
3 8 (6.557%) Unit Testing
4 7 (5.738%) Migration
5 6 (4.918%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (4.918%) Performance Management
6 5 (4.098%) Software Distribution
6 5 (4.098%) Compatibility Testing
7 4 (3.279%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (3.279%) Project Management
8 3 (2.459%) Service Delivery
8 3 (2.459%) PRINCE
8 3 (2.459%) Security Architecture
9 2 (1.639%) Load Balancing
9 2 (1.639%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (1.639%) Change Management
9 2 (1.639%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (1.639%) CRM
10 1 (0.820%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.820%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.21%) C#
1 21 (17.21%) SQL
2 13 (10.66%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.197%) VB
4 8 (6.557%) VBScript
5 4 (3.279%) C
5 4 (3.279%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.459%) C++
7 2 (1.639%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.820%) VBA
8 1 (0.820%) Perl
8 1 (0.820%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (43.44%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (20.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.016%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.557%) MCSE
6 4 (3.279%) CCNA
6 4 (3.279%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.459%) MCP
8 2 (1.639%) MCITP
9 1 (0.820%) Degree
9 1 (0.820%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.820%) MCSA
9 1 (0.820%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.639%) SLA
2 1 (0.820%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (27.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.016%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.918%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (4.918%) vSphere
4 5 (4.098%) XenApp
5 4 (3.279%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.639%) VMware ESX
6 2 (1.639%) Xen
6 2 (1.639%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.820%) NFS
7 1 (0.820%) XenServer
7 1 (0.820%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.557%) SCCM
1 8 (6.557%) SCOM
2 7 (5.738%) MOM
3 6 (4.918%) Tivoli
4 5 (4.098%) Netcool
5 3 (2.459%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 3 (2.459%) MIMEsweeper
5 3 (2.459%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.459%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.639%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (1.639%) OpenView
6 2 (1.639%) ARCserve
7 1 (0.820%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.820%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.820%) CiscoWorks
7 1 (0.820%) Legato
7 1 (0.820%) Nagios
7 1 (0.820%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.820%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.820%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 35 (28.69%) VMware
2 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
3 20 (16.39%) Cisco
4 17 (13.93%) HP
5 8 (6.557%) Citrix
5 8 (6.557%) ESRI
6 7 (5.738%) Oracle
6 7 (5.738%) Juniper
6 7 (5.738%) NetApp
6 7 (5.738%) IBM
7 6 (4.918%) McAfee
8 5 (4.098%) Sophos
8 5 (4.098%) Compuware
8 5 (4.098%) Dell
9 4 (3.279%) Sencha
9 4 (3.279%) Appcelerator
10 3 (2.459%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.459%) M86 Security
10 3 (2.459%) Symantec
10 3 (2.459%) OPNET
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