Bristol Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Bristol 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 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	20
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	25	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	14.71 %	25.56 %
Daily rates quoted	0	20
Average minimum daily rate	-	£293
Average daily rate	-	£310
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£319
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.44	£23.61
Average hourly rate	£23.56	£24.46
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.67	£25.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.03	£21.17
% change on same period last year	+4.03 %
Operating Systems Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	170	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.242 %	0.225 %
Daily rates quoted	28	58
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£264
Average daily rate	£313	£280
% change on same period last year	+11.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.36	£22.62
Average hourly rate	£29.77	£24.21
% change on same period last year	+22.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.18	£25.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Windows Server 2003 South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 47 (100.00 %) Windows 2 18 (38.30 %) Windows XP 2 18 (38.30 %) Active Directory 3 17 (36.17 %) MS Exchange 4 16 (34.04 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 14 (29.79 %) Citrix 6 13 (27.66 %) Windows 2000 6 13 (27.66 %) MS Office 7 12 (25.53 %) SAN 8 10 (21.28 %) Cisco 8 10 (21.28 %) Microsoft 8 10 (21.28 %) VMware 9 8 (17.02 %) NetBackup 10 7 (14.89 %) Microsoft Certification 11 6 (12.77 %) UNIX

11 6 (12.77 %) SQL 11 6 (12.77 %) MCSE 11 6 (12.77 %) DNS 11 6 (12.77 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 5 (10.64 %) TCP/IP 12 5 (10.64 %) VPN 12 5 (10.64 %) HP 13 4 (8.511 %) CCNA 13 4 (8.511 %) Cisco Certification 13 4 (8.511 %) DHCP 13 4 (8.511 %) MS Excel 13 4 (8.511 %) LAN 13 4 (8.511 %) Oracle 14 3 (6.383 %) Disaster Recovery 14 3 (6.383 %) VMware Infrastructure

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 Platforms 1 17 (36.17 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (34.04 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (6.383 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (4.255 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 9iAS 5 1 (2.128 %) GroupWise 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Application Server	Applications 1 13 (27.66 %) MS Office 2 4 (8.511 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (25.53 %) SAN 2 6 (12.77 %) DNS 3 5 (10.64 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (10.64 %) VPN 4 4 (8.511 %) LAN 4 4 (8.511 %) DHCP 5 3 (6.383 %) VoIP 5 3 (6.383 %) WAN 6 2 (4.255 %) GPRS 6 2 (4.255 %) GSM 6 2 (4.255 %) Internet 7 1 (2.128 %) Firewall 7 1 (2.128 %) Wireless 7 1 (2.128 %) Broadband 7 1 (2.128 %) SMS 7 1 (2.128 %) SMTP 7 1 (2.128 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 1 (2.128 %) Education 1 1 (2.128 %) Government 1 1 (2.128 %) Law
Job Titles 1 10 (21.28 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (17.02 %) 3rd Line Support 3 7 (14.89 %) 2nd Line Support 4 6 (12.77 %) Analyst 4 6 (12.77 %) Network Support 5 5 (10.64 %) Desktop Support 6 4 (8.511 %) Network Engineer 6 4 (8.511 %) Network Support Engineer 7 3 (6.383 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (6.383 %) Operations Analyst 7 3 (6.383 %) Server Support 8 2 (4.255 %) Support Technician 8 2 (4.255 %) Infrastructure Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) Project Manager 8 2 (4.255 %) Consultant 8 2 (4.255 %) Server Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) Storage Engineer 8 2 (4.255 %) Server Specialist 8 2 (4.255 %) Product Consultant 8 2 (4.255 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.255 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.128 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.128 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 47 (100.00 %) Windows 2 18 (38.30 %) Windows XP 3 13 (27.66 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (12.77 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 6 (12.77 %) UNIX 5 2 (4.255 %) HPUX 5 2 (4.255 %) Solaris 6 1 (2.128 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.383 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (4.255 %) Migration 2 2 (4.255 %) Benchmarking 2 2 (4.255 %) Project Management 2 2 (4.255 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (4.255 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (4.255 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.128 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.128 %) Wealth Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (12.77 %) SQL 2 2 (4.255 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.128 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (14.89 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (12.77 %) MCSE 3 4 (8.511 %) CCNA 3 4 (8.511 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (6.383 %) MCSA 5 2 (4.255 %) MCP 6 1 (2.128 %) CCA 6 1 (2.128 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (2.128 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (2.128 %) CCSA 6 1 (2.128 %) CCSE 6 1 (2.128 %) MCTS 6 1 (2.128 %) MCITP 6 1 (2.128 %) Degree 6 1 (2.128 %) NVQ Level 3
System Software 1 18 (38.30 %) Active Directory 2 8 (17.02 %) NetBackup 3 3 (6.383 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (4.255 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (2.128 %) VMware GSX 5 1 (2.128 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (2.128 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (2.128 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (4.255 %) MOM 2 1 (2.128 %) MIMEsweeper 2 1 (2.128 %) DameWare 2 1 (2.128 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 14 (29.79 %) Citrix 2 10 (21.28 %) Cisco 2 10 (21.28 %) Microsoft 2 10 (21.28 %) VMware 3 5 (10.64 %) HP 4 4 (8.511 %) Oracle 5 3 (6.383 %) Symantec 5 3 (6.383 %) VERITAS 5 3 (6.383 %) Lotus 6 2 (4.255 %) IBM 6 2 (4.255 %) EMC 7 1 (2.128 %) Remedy 7 1 (2.128 %) Blue Coat 7 1 (2.128 %) Dell 7 1 (2.128 %) CheckPoint