Cambridge Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	31
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	30	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	18.29 %	14.94 %
Daily rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£296
Average daily rate	£287	£302
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£303
% change on same period last year	-0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.38	£17.92
Average hourly rate	£25.29	£18.33
% change on same period last year	+37.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.19	£18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.34	£20.88
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Operating Systems Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	164	154
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.265 %	0.168 %
Daily rates quoted	26	41
Average minimum daily rate	£236	£294
Average daily rate	£253	£320
% change on same period last year	-20.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.74	£22.82
Average hourly rate	£29.35	£23.55
% change on same period last year	+24.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.96	£24.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Windows Server 2003 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 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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 53 (100.00 %) Windows 2 20 (37.74 %) Active Directory 3 14 (26.42 %) Windows XP 3 14 (26.42 %) Finance 4 13 (24.53 %) MS Exchange 4 13 (24.53 %) Windows 2000 4 13 (24.53 %) SQL 4 13 (24.53 %) SQL Server 5 12 (22.64 %) UNIX 5 12 (22.64 %) LAN 6 11 (20.75 %) WAN 7 9 (16.98 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 8 (15.09 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (15.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 8 (15.09 %) Microsoft

8 8 (15.09 %) HP 8 8 (15.09 %) MS Office 9 6 (11.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 6 (11.32 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (11.32 %) VMware 9 6 (11.32 %) VMware ESX 9 6 (11.32 %) SQL Server 2000 9 6 (11.32 %) Cisco 9 6 (11.32 %) Windows NT 10 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint 10 5 (9.434 %) TCP/IP 10 5 (9.434 %) Linux 10 5 (9.434 %) Firewall 10 5 (9.434 %) Windows Vista 11 4 (7.547 %) MCSE

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 3 (5.660 %) .NET 1 3 (5.660 %) ADO.NET 1 3 (5.660 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (5.660 %) WebServices 1 3 (5.660 %) XML 1 3 (5.660 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 13 (24.53 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (15.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint 4 3 (5.660 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (5.660 %) IIS 4 3 (5.660 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (3.774 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (1.887 %) Office Communications Server 6 1 (1.887 %) Office Project Server 6 1 (1.887 %) Apache
Applications 1 8 (15.09 %) MS Office 2 3 (5.660 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.887 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.887 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 12 (22.64 %) LAN 2 11 (20.75 %) WAN 3 5 (9.434 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (9.434 %) Firewall 4 4 (7.547 %) DNS 5 3 (5.660 %) SAN 5 3 (5.660 %) VoIP 6 2 (3.774 %) DHCP 6 2 (3.774 %) ADSL 6 2 (3.774 %) ISDN 6 2 (3.774 %) Intranet 6 2 (3.774 %) Internet 6 2 (3.774 %) VPN 6 2 (3.774 %) IP Telephony 6 2 (3.774 %) Intrusion Detection 7 1 (1.887 %) VLAN 7 1 (1.887 %) IPsec 7 1 (1.887 %) OSPF 7 1 (1.887 %) SMS 7 1 (1.887 %) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (24.53 %) SQL Server 2 8 (15.09 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (11.32 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (11.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 2 (3.774 %) OLAP 5 2 (3.774 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.887 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.887 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 2 (3.774 %) MSI 2 1 (1.887 %) Bugzilla 2 1 (1.887 %) Subversion
General 1 14 (26.42 %) Finance 2 2 (3.774 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (3.774 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.887 %) Banking 3 1 (1.887 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 12 (22.64 %) Administrator 2 11 (20.75 %) DBA 3 10 (18.87 %) Systems Administrator 4 9 (16.98 %) Support Engineer 5 7 (13.21 %) SQL DBA 6 6 (11.32 %) SQL Server DBA 6 6 (11.32 %) 3rd Line Support 7 4 (7.547 %) Network Engineer 7 4 (7.547 %) Developer 7 4 (7.547 %) Server Administrator 8 3 (5.660 %) Analyst 8 3 (5.660 %) Desktop Support 8 3 (5.660 %) Active Directory Specialist 8 3 (5.660 %) C# Developer 9 2 (3.774 %) Network Infrastructure Engineer 9 2 (3.774 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (3.774 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 9 2 (3.774 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 9 2 (3.774 %) Systems Engineer 9 2 (3.774 %) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.660 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 53 (100.00 %) Windows 2 14 (26.42 %) Windows XP 3 13 (24.53 %) Windows 2000 4 12 (22.64 %) UNIX 5 9 (16.98 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 6 (11.32 %) Windows NT 7 5 (9.434 %) Linux 7 5 (9.434 %) Windows Vista 8 3 (5.660 %) Solaris 9 2 (3.774 %) Red Hat Linux 10 1 (1.887 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 1 (1.887 %) CentOS 10 1 (1.887 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.660 %) OOD 1 3 (5.660 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (3.774 %) Migration 2 2 (3.774 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (3.774 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (3.774 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (1.887 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.887 %) Workflow 3 1 (1.887 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (1.887 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 13 (24.53 %) SQL 2 3 (5.660 %) Transact-SQL 2 3 (5.660 %) VBScript 2 3 (5.660 %) VB 2 3 (5.660 %) C# 3 1 (1.887 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 6 (11.32 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (7.547 %) MCSE 3 2 (3.774 %) MCDBA 3 2 (3.774 %) Degree 3 2 (3.774 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.887 %) SLA
System Software 1 20 (37.74 %) Active Directory 2 6 (11.32 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (5.660 %) MSMQ 4 2 (3.774 %) NFS 4 2 (3.774 %) Samba 4 2 (3.774 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (3.774 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.887 %) MOM 2 1 (1.887 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 8 (15.09 %) Microsoft 1 8 (15.09 %) HP 2 6 (11.32 %) Cisco 2 6 (11.32 %) VMware 3 4 (7.547 %) IBM 3 4 (7.547 %) Dell 4 3 (5.660 %) Lotus 4 3 (5.660 %) Oracle 5 2 (3.774 %) Red Hat 5 2 (3.774 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (3.774 %) 3Com 6 1 (1.887 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.887 %) NetApp