The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Winchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 20 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 Winchester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 4 3 11
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Winchester 14.29% 32.00% 4.348%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.23% 66.67% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
Average daily rate £320 £300 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £260 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £310 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.07% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £36.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.40 £16.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +8.19%
All Operating Systems
Winchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
13 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Winchester 20.63% 48.00% 6.522%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 2
Average daily rate £313 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £33.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-59.09% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Windows
Hampshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Winchester 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 Winchester region.

Winchester 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 Winchester region.

Winchester Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Winchester 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 6 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Biometrics
2 5 (27.78%) Back Office
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) HP
3 3 (16.67%) IIS
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) ASP
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 2000
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) Remedy
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) XenApp
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.556%) SaaS
5 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
5 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (5.556%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.556%) Migration
5 1 (5.556%) Telecoms

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Winchester 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 2 (11.11%) HTML
1 2 (11.11%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (5.556%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.556%) LAN
2 1 (5.556%) WAN
2 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.556%) VPN
General
1 5 (27.78%) Back Office
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) ASP Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Classic ASP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Biometrics
2 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.556%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) iPhone
2 1 (5.556%) SaaS
2 1 (5.556%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.556%) NetWare
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
4 1 (5.556%) AIX
4 1 (5.556%) HPUX
4 1 (5.556%) Solaris
4 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
1 2 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (5.556%) Migration
2 1 (5.556%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.556%) Perl
2 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.556%) Korn
2 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
2 1 (5.556%) C
2 1 (5.556%) C++
2 1 (5.556%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) XenApp
2 2 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) HP
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Remedy
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.556%) Veritas
3 1 (5.556%) Lotus
3 1 (5.556%) Compaq
3 1 (5.556%) Dell
3 1 (5.556%) EMC
3 1 (5.556%) McAfee
3 1 (5.556%) IBM
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Posted: 15 May 2013