The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 Server over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Rank - 62 -
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 Server 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.125% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.495% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £150 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £265 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -11.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £24.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-38.14% +38.57%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
194 202 303
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.80% 25.28% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 88 184
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £194 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.35 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 2000 Server
North West

Windows 2000 Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 Server across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Cheshire Windows 2000 Server Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 2000 Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Windows 2000 Server Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000 Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Windows 2000 Server Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000 Server
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows NT
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V

Windows 2000 Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows NT
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware