Cheshire Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Cheshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Ayrshire Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Bexley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	38
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	16	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	4.984 %	12.92 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£128
Average daily rate	-	£128
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£128
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£290
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£13.13	£22.90
% change on same period last year	-42.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.25	£24.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£19.64
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Operating Systems Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	321	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.428 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	91	44
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£301
Average daily rate	£417	£306
% change on same period last year	+35.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.36	£23.41
Average hourly rate	£19.07	£26.12
% change on same period last year	-26.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.78	£28.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows 2000 North 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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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 Cheshire region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Warrington	-3	6	-	-
Chester	-5	2	-	-
Alderley Edge	-	1	-	-
Macclesfield	-	1	-	-

Windows 2000 North West

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 16 (53.33 %) MS Office 3 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 13 (43.33 %) Active Directory 5 11 (36.67 %) MS Excel 6 10 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 7 6 (20.00 %) Windows XP 7 6 (20.00 %) SQL 7 6 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 5 (16.67 %) HP 9 4 (13.33 %) Novell 9 4 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 9 4 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 4 (13.33 %) MS PowerPoint

10 3 (10.00 %) Broadband 10 3 (10.00 %) NDS 11 2 (6.667 %) SLA 11 2 (6.667 %) Dreamweaver 11 2 (6.667 %) Intel 11 2 (6.667 %) LAN 11 2 (6.667 %) ADSL 11 2 (6.667 %) VMS 11 2 (6.667 %) IIS 11 2 (6.667 %) MCSE 11 2 (6.667 %) Windows NT 11 2 (6.667 %) Management Information System 11 2 (6.667 %) Change Management 11 2 (6.667 %) Firewall 11 2 (6.667 %) Blackberry

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (6.667 %) IIS 5 1 (3.333 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Applications 1 16 (53.33 %) MS Office 2 11 (36.67 %) MS Excel 3 4 (13.33 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.33 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (10.00 %) Broadband 3 2 (6.667 %) LAN 3 2 (6.667 %) Internet 3 2 (6.667 %) Firewall 3 2 (6.667 %) ADSL 4 1 (3.333 %) Wireless 4 1 (3.333 %) SMS 4 1 (3.333 %) VPN 4 1 (3.333 %) DNS 4 1 (3.333 %) SAN 4 1 (3.333 %) Intranet	Development Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 1 (3.333 %) Telecoms 1 1 (3.333 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 7 (23.33 %) Analyst 2 6 (20.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 4 (13.33 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (13.33 %) Desktop Engineer 3 4 (13.33 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (10.00 %) Technical Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) Technical Services Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) Service Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 3 (10.00 %) Helpdesk Support 4 3 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (10.00 %) Technical Support 5 2 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 6 1 (3.333 %) Team Leader 6 1 (3.333 %) IT Support Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (3.333 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) Blackberry 1 2 (6.667 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.333 %) PDA 2 1 (3.333 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (3.333 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (20.00 %) Windows XP 3 2 (6.667 %) VMS 3 2 (6.667 %) Windows NT 3 2 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.333 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.667 %) Change Management 1 2 (6.667 %) Information Security 1 2 (6.667 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (3.333 %) ISMS 2 1 (3.333 %) B2B 2 1 (3.333 %) Project Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Information Security Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Security Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 6 (20.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (6.667 %) MCSE 1 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.333 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) SLA 1 2 (6.667 %) QA
System Software 1 13 (43.33 %) Active Directory 2 3 (10.00 %) NDS 3 1 (3.333 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 2 (6.667 %) WSUS 2 1 (3.333 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (16.67 %) HP 3 4 (13.33 %) Novell 3 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.667 %) McAfee Security 4 2 (6.667 %) Intel 5 1 (3.333 %) Citrix 5 1 (3.333 %) Dell 5 1 (3.333 %) Apple 5 1 (3.333 %) Symantec