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Windows Server 2008 Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bedfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 23 30 28
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 9 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 4.592% 1.880% 5.078%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.36% 13.51% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
Average daily rate £350 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+15.06% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 55 37 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.06% 13.91% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 13
Average daily rate £350 £325 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £175 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
Average hourly rate £34.13 £12.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+184.37% -46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.03 £12.00 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £35.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bedfordshire Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton 0 5 £320 -
Dunstable - 1 - -
Bedford - - - - 1
Windows Server 2008
East of England

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Windows Server 2008 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 Server 2008.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (73.68%) VMware
3 14 (73.68%) Citrix
4 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
5 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
6 8 (42.11%) HP
6 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
7 7 (36.84%) DHCP
7 7 (36.84%) DNS
7 7 (36.84%) SQL
7 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
8 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (31.58%) IIS
8 6 (31.58%) Windows XP
9 5 (26.32%) LAN
9 5 (26.32%) SAN
9 5 (26.32%) Back Office
9 5 (26.32%) DMZ
9 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2003
9 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (26.32%) XenApp
10 4 (21.05%) NetBackup
10 4 (21.05%) Symantec
10 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
10 4 (21.05%) MS Office
11 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
11 3 (15.79%) WAN

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Windows Server 2008 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 Server 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
2 1 (5.263%) .NET
2 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.263%) Web Services
2 1 (5.263%) MSMQ
2 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
2 6 (31.58%) IIS
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
4 1 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (5.263%) Confluence
4 1 (5.263%) Lync
4 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.263%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.263%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Office
1 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) DMZ
2 5 (26.32%) LAN
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 1 (5.263%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MSI
1 1 (5.263%) Log4Net
1 1 (5.263%) JIRA
1 1 (5.263%) TeamCity
1 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
1 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (5.263%) Wise Package Studio
1 1 (5.263%) FinalBuilder
General
1 5 (26.32%) Back Office
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.263%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Applications Packager
4 3 (15.79%) Server Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
6 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Support Specialist
6 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.263%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Server Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Software Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Thin Client
1 1 (5.263%) Blackberry
1 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
4 6 (31.58%) Windows XP
5 2 (10.53%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Project Management
1 3 (15.79%) Change Management
2 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.263%) Migration
2 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (5.263%) Software Deployment
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL
2 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) VB
2 1 (5.263%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.263%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 1 (5.263%) MCITP
3 1 (5.263%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) XenApp
4 3 (15.79%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (15.79%) Terminal Server
4 3 (15.79%) VMware ESX
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (10.53%) ISA Server
6 1 (5.263%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) NetBackup
2 3 (15.79%) WhatsUp Gold
2 3 (15.79%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (5.263%) Puppet
3 1 (5.263%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Citrix
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) HP
3 4 (21.05%) Symantec
4 3 (15.79%) AppSense
4 3 (15.79%) LANDesk
4 3 (15.79%) Dell
4 3 (15.79%) Adobe
5 2 (10.53%) Websense
Application Packager
Bedfordshire, South East
Application Packager required for a financial services organisation. Skills/Exp required:- Extensive experience with Microsoft Active directory services in the enterprise.- Experience of App-V technologies in the...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
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