The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 8 over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 93 - 97
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 17 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.915% - 0.055%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.282% - 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £213
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £315 £213
% change year-on-year
- +48.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 - -
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
518 447 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 27.88% 20.01% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 207 148
Average daily rate £308 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 75 52
Average hourly rate £12.75 £13.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.92% -22.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.55 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Yorkshire Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 8 across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Windows 8 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 8
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire Windows 8 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 8
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire - 16 £325 -
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (82.14%) Windows 7
3 15 (53.57%) Migration
4 9 (32.14%) SCCM
5 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 7 (25.00%) UNIX
6 5 (17.86%) Oracle
7 4 (14.29%) SAN
7 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (14.29%) Retail
8 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 3 (10.71%) Windows XP
8 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (10.71%) SQL
8 3 (10.71%) VBScript
8 3 (10.71%) CSS
8 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (10.71%) Service Management
9 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
9 2 (7.143%) Lotus
9 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
9 2 (7.143%) ITIL
9 2 (7.143%) VB
9 2 (7.143%) .NET
9 2 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (7.143%) Lotus Domino
9 2 (7.143%) Avaya
9 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
9 2 (7.143%) CSS3
9 2 (7.143%) HTML5

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
2 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.143%) .NET
2 2 (7.143%) CSS3
2 2 (7.143%) HTML5
2 2 (7.143%) jQuery
3 1 (3.571%) XML
3 1 (3.571%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
1 2 (7.143%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.571%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.571%) MS Project
1 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.143%) VLAN
4 1 (3.571%) VPN
4 1 (3.571%) DNS
4 1 (3.571%) SSL
4 1 (3.571%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (3.571%) MS Access
1 1 (3.571%) TOAD
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
1 1 (3.571%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) JIRA
1 1 (3.571%) WinRunner
1 1 (3.571%) TestDirector
1 1 (3.571%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (3.571%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (3.571%) Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Rollout Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Project Leader
5 2 (7.143%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.143%) Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Implementation Project Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Implementation Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Lead Project Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Windows 8 Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Mobile Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Fat Client
1 1 (3.571%) iPhone
1 1 (3.571%) iPad
1 1 (3.571%) Thin Client
1 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (82.14%) Windows 7
3 7 (25.00%) UNIX
4 3 (10.71%) Windows XP
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Vista
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000
6 1 (3.571%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Migration
2 3 (10.71%) Service Management
3 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 2 (7.143%) ITIL
3 2 (7.143%) Project Management
3 2 (7.143%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (3.571%) Project Planning
4 1 (3.571%) Resource Management
4 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.571%) Network Design
4 1 (3.571%) Logistics
4 1 (3.571%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Performance Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Integration Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.571%) System Testing
4 1 (3.571%) V-Model
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
1 3 (10.71%) VBScript
2 2 (7.143%) VB
3 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.571%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.571%) Xen
2 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) SCCM
2 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.143%) Lotus
3 2 (7.143%) Avaya
4 1 (3.571%) Citrix
4 1 (3.571%) Apple
4 1 (3.571%) VMware
4 1 (3.571%) Wyse
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