The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worthing region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 22 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 Worthing 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 3 4 6
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 21.88% 19.35% 7.143%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.33% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
Average daily rate £335 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.20% +13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.23% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +6.45%
All Operating Systems
Worthing
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 37.50% 19.35% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
Average daily rate £348 £165 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+110.60% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows
West Sussex

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing Windows Hourly Rate Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 11 (68.75%) HP
2 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 6 (37.50%) Juniper
3 6 (37.50%) SAN
3 6 (37.50%) NetApp
3 6 (37.50%) CheckPoint
3 6 (37.50%) MS Office
3 6 (37.50%) DHCP
3 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 6 (37.50%) Clustering
3 6 (37.50%) ProCurve
4 5 (31.25%) WSUS
4 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 5 (31.25%) Backup Exec
4 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
4 5 (31.25%) Blackberry
5 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
6 3 (18.75%) F5
6 3 (18.75%) HP SIM
6 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
6 3 (18.75%) LAN
6 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 3 (18.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
7 2 (12.50%) MPLS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.250%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
1 6 (37.50%) DHCP
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) MPLS
3 2 (12.50%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (6.250%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) PVCS
1 1 (6.250%) ClearCase
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.250%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Clustering
2 5 (31.25%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (12.50%) UNIX
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Test Management
2 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
3 1 (6.250%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.250%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) WSUS
1 5 (31.25%) Backup Exec
2 3 (18.75%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) HP
2 6 (37.50%) Juniper
2 6 (37.50%) NetApp
2 6 (37.50%) CheckPoint
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) ProCurve
3 3 (18.75%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) Altiris