Birmingham Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Torpoint Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	21	20
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	22	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	27.85 %	24.51 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£178
Average daily rate	£350	£199
% change on same period last year	+76.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£288
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£25.56
Average hourly rate	£15.06	£27.31
% change on same period last year	-44.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.13	£29.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.13	£21.23
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Operating Systems Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	79	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	20	23
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£296
Average daily rate	£344	£327
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£322
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.62	£21.83
Average hourly rate	£13.87	£23.06
% change on same period last year	-39.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.11	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.59	£21.59
% change on same period last year	-
Windows Server 2003 West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Windows Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Birmingham region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Birmingham region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Windows Server 2003 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 2003.

1 42 (100.00 %) Windows 2 22 (52.38 %) Active Directory 3 17 (40.48 %) Windows XP 4 15 (35.71 %) Microsoft 5 12 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 6 11 (26.19 %) TCP/IP 7 10 (23.81 %) Citrix 7 10 (23.81 %) MS Office 8 9 (21.43 %) VMware 9 8 (19.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 6 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 6 (14.29 %) Firewall 10 6 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 10 6 (14.29 %) Cisco 11 5 (11.90 %) WAN

12 4 (9.524 %) UNIX 12 4 (9.524 %) LAN 12 4 (9.524 %) SQL Server 12 4 (9.524 %) SQL 12 4 (9.524 %) Juniper 12 4 (9.524 %) VERITAS 12 4 (9.524 %) BT 12 4 (9.524 %) Blue Coat 12 4 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure 13 3 (7.143 %) Wireless 13 3 (7.143 %) NHS 13 3 (7.143 %) MS Excel 13 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 14 2 (4.762 %) IBM 14 2 (4.762 %) HP

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Windows Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.381 %) .NET 1 1 (2.381 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 12 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (19.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.381 %) IIS 3 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 10 (23.81 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking 1 11 (26.19 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (14.29 %) Firewall 3 5 (11.90 %) WAN 4 4 (9.524 %) LAN 5 3 (7.143 %) Wireless 6 1 (2.381 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (2.381 %) Cisco IOS 6 1 (2.381 %) DECT 6 1 (2.381 %) POP3 6 1 (2.381 %) SMTP 6 1 (2.381 %) VPN 6 1 (2.381 %) SAN 6 1 (2.381 %) Intranet 6 1 (2.381 %) OSPF 6 1 (2.381 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Access 2 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (2.381 %) Finance 1 1 (2.381 %) Education	Job Titles 1 13 (30.95 %) Analyst 2 11 (26.19 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (21.43 %) 2nd Line Support 4 8 (19.05 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (7.143 %) Support Technician 5 3 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 3 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Analyst 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (4.762 %) IT Support Analyst 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Support 6 2 (4.762 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (4.762 %) Citrix Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (4.762 %) Network Support Analyst 6 2 (4.762 %) Field Engineer 6 2 (4.762 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (2.381 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (2.381 %) Helpdesk Support
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.143 %) NHS 2 2 (4.762 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.381 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.381 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 42 (100.00 %) Windows 2 17 (40.48 %) Windows XP 3 6 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 6 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (9.524 %) UNIX 5 2 (4.762 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.381 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (2.381 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (2.381 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 4 (9.524 %) SQL 2 1 (2.381 %) VB 2 1 (2.381 %) VB.NET 2 1 (2.381 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.381 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (2.381 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.381 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.381 %) CCNA 2 1 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) SLA
System Software 1 22 (52.38 %) Active Directory 2 4 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (4.762 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (4.762 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Vendors 1 15 (35.71 %) Microsoft 2 10 (23.81 %) Citrix 3 9 (21.43 %) VMware 4 6 (14.29 %) Cisco 5 4 (9.524 %) Juniper 5 4 (9.524 %) VERITAS 5 4 (9.524 %) Blue Coat 5 4 (9.524 %) BT 6 2 (4.762 %) Remedy 6 2 (4.762 %) Sophos 6 2 (4.762 %) Cerner 6 2 (4.762 %) IBM 6 2 (4.762 %) HP 7 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 7 1 (2.381 %) Capita