Cambridge Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Cambridge 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 2000 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	42
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	21	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	13.55 %	8.163 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£200
Average daily rate	£163	£225
% change on same period last year	-27.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£167	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£296
% change on same period last year	-11.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.80	£16.50
Average hourly rate	£12.60	£17.44
% change on same period last year	-27.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.40	£18.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.86	£18.03
% change on same period last year	-6.48 %
Operating Systems Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	155	196
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.195 %
Daily rates quoted	28	32
Average minimum daily rate	£232	£296
Average daily rate	£254	£313
% change on same period last year	-18.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£276	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.79	£25.36
Average hourly rate	£21.65	£27.91
% change on same period last year	-22.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.52	£30.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows 2000 Cambridgeshire

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cambridge region.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cambridge region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Windows 2000 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 2000.

1 44 (100.00 %) Windows 2 25 (56.82 %) Windows XP 3 21 (47.73 %) Windows Server 2003 4 19 (43.18 %) Active Directory 5 16 (36.36 %) MS Office 6 15 (34.09 %) MS Exchange 6 15 (34.09 %) LAN 7 13 (29.55 %) WAN 7 13 (29.55 %) Cisco 8 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft 8 11 (25.00 %) VoIP 9 10 (22.73 %) HP 10 9 (20.45 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 8 (18.18 %) Firewall 11 8 (18.18 %) Windows NT

12 7 (15.91 %) TCP/IP 12 7 (15.91 %) Dell 12 7 (15.91 %) DNS 12 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft Certification 13 6 (13.64 %) 3Com 13 6 (13.64 %) McAfee Security 13 6 (13.64 %) OpenView 13 6 (13.64 %) ADSL 13 6 (13.64 %) ISDN 13 6 (13.64 %) MCSE 13 6 (13.64 %) Intrusion Detection 13 6 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 14 5 (11.36 %) UNIX 15 4 (9.091 %) SQL

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Windows 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 15 (34.09 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (20.45 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (4.545 %) IIS 4 2 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 16 (36.36 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 15 (34.09 %) LAN 2 13 (29.55 %) WAN 3 11 (25.00 %) VoIP 4 8 (18.18 %) Firewall 5 7 (15.91 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (15.91 %) DNS 6 6 (13.64 %) ADSL 6 6 (13.64 %) ISDN 6 6 (13.64 %) Intrusion Detection 7 4 (9.091 %) VPN 7 4 (9.091 %) DHCP 7 4 (9.091 %) IP Telephony 8 2 (4.545 %) EIGRP 8 2 (4.545 %) OSPF 9 1 (2.273 %) Network Security 9 1 (2.273 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (4.545 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.273 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 9 (20.45 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 3 7 (15.91 %) Analyst 3 7 (15.91 %) 2nd Line Support 4 6 (13.64 %) Network Support Engineer 4 6 (13.64 %) Network Support 5 4 (9.091 %) DBA 5 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server DBA 5 4 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (9.091 %) SQL DBA 6 3 (6.818 %) Server Engineer 6 3 (6.818 %) Helpdesk Support 6 3 (6.818 %) Support Technician 6 3 (6.818 %) Desktop Support 7 2 (4.545 %) Network Security Engineer 7 2 (4.545 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) 1st Line Support 7 2 (4.545 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (4.545 %) Technical Manager 7 2 (4.545 %) Implementation Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.273 %) Fat Client 1 1 (2.273 %) Video Conferencing 1 1 (2.273 %) Data Protection Act 1 1 (2.273 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 44 (100.00 %) Windows 2 25 (56.82 %) Windows XP 3 21 (47.73 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (18.18 %) Windows NT 5 5 (11.36 %) UNIX 6 4 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 4 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.273 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.273 %) Data Protection 2 1 (2.273 %) CRM 2 1 (2.273 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 4 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (2.273 %) C++
Qualifications 1 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (13.64 %) MCSE 3 3 (6.818 %) Degree 4 2 (4.545 %) MCP 5 1 (2.273 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) SLA
System Software 1 19 (43.18 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.273 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 6 (13.64 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 13 (29.55 %) Cisco 2 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 10 (22.73 %) HP 4 7 (15.91 %) Dell 5 6 (13.64 %) 3Com 5 6 (13.64 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (4.545 %) Juniper 6 2 (4.545 %) Novell 6 2 (4.545 %) VMware 6 2 (4.545 %) ProCurve 7 1 (2.273 %) Kaspersky 7 1 (2.273 %) Citrix 7 1 (2.273 %) Apple 7 1 (2.273 %) Sage