The first table below looks at the demand for X-Windows 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 X-Windows 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 Application Development 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
X-Windows
Rank 103 111 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing X-Windows 7 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.377% 0.045% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.311% 0.194% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £320 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £320 £200
% change year-on-year
-11.71% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
534 516 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.74% 23.10% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 315 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
X-Windows
England

X-Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire X-Windows Jobs Demand Trend

X-Windows
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire X-Windows Daily Rate Trend

X-Windows
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire X-Windows Hourly Rate Trend

X-Windows
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing X-Windows 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 +9 7 - -
X-Windows
England

X-Windows
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) HPUX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Apache
3 5 (71.43%) Tomcat
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (71.43%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (28.57%) NAS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) LAMP
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services

X-Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) LAMP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) Apache
1 5 (71.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) HPUX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) HP