Cambridgeshire Windows 2000 Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 Server over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Location Aberdeen Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Henlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	63
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	12	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	4.669 %	1.730 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£202	-
Average daily rate	£215	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£228	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£232	£281
% change on same period last year	-17.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.83	£23.75
Average hourly rate	£21.17	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-23.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.44	£20.97
% change on same period last year	+2.24 %
Operating Systems Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	257	289
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.315 %
Daily rates quoted	36	53
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£300
Average daily rate	£271	£326
% change on same period last year	-16.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	85	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.70	£27.19
Average hourly rate	£26.30	£29.02
% change on same period last year	-9.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.90	£30.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Windows 2000 Server East of England

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 Server
Demand Trend

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

Windows 2000 Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000 Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 Server across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Windows 2000 Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000 Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 Server across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Windows 2000 Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 Server within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+16	7	£242	-
Peterborough	+6	4	-	-
Huntingdon	-	2	£180	-

Windows 2000 Server East of England

Windows 2000 Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Windows 2000 Server 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 Server.

1 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 12 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (38.89 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (22.22 %) Windows NT 4 4 (22.22 %) IBM 4 4 (22.22 %) Dell 4 4 (22.22 %) VMware 4 4 (22.22 %) VMware ESX 4 4 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 4 (22.22 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (22.22 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (16.67 %) assyst 5 3 (16.67 %) HP 5 3 (16.67 %) Windows XP

6 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory 6 2 (11.11 %) Citrix 6 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (11.11 %) VPN 6 2 (11.11 %) DNS 6 2 (11.11 %) MCSE 6 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 6 2 (11.11 %) LAN 6 2 (11.11 %) SMS 6 2 (11.11 %) SAN 6 2 (11.11 %) Novell 6 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 2 (11.11 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (5.556 %) Business Analysis

Windows 2000 Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Windows 2000 Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (5.556 %) HTML 1 1 (5.556 %) ASP 1 1 (5.556 %) JSP 1 1 (5.556 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 7 (38.89 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (5.556 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Office 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (16.67 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.11 %) LAN 1 2 (11.11 %) SMS 1 2 (11.11 %) VPN 1 2 (11.11 %) DNS 1 2 (11.11 %) SAN 2 1 (5.556 %) WLAN 2 1 (5.556 %) WAN 2 1 (5.556 %) DHCP 2 1 (5.556 %) IPX 2 1 (5.556 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (11.11 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (5.556 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 4 (22.22 %) Desktop Support 2 3 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 3 (16.67 %) Systems Engineer 2 3 (16.67 %) Support Technician 2 3 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (11.11 %) Server Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 2 (11.11 %) Server Administrator 3 2 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 3 2 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 4 1 (5.556 %) Active Directory Specialist 4 1 (5.556 %) Windows Server Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) PC Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Engineer
Operating Systems 1 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 12 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (22.22 %) Windows NT 4 3 (16.67 %) Windows XP 5 1 (5.556 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (22.22 %) SC Cleared 1 4 (22.22 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) ITIL 2 1 (5.556 %) CRM 2 1 (5.556 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.556 %) JavaScript 1 1 (5.556 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (5.556 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (5.556 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.556 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (22.22 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (5.556 %) MOM	Vendors 1 4 (22.22 %) IBM 1 4 (22.22 %) Dell 1 4 (22.22 %) VMware 2 3 (16.67 %) HP 3 2 (11.11 %) Citrix 3 2 (11.11 %) Novell 4 1 (5.556 %) Remedy 4 1 (5.556 %) Compaq 4 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft 4 1 (5.556 %) Northgate 4 1 (5.556 %) Cisco