The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 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 over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 56 64 53
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 7 2 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.952% 0.248% 2.364%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.571% 0.943% 7.372%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 17
Average daily rate £332 - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £215 £275
% change year-on-year
+51.16% -21.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
196 212 312
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.67% 26.34% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 191
Average daily rate £311 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £191 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £493 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 9
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.14% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.22 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 2000
North West

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Windows 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
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 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 4 - -
Knutsford -5 1 - -
Windows 2000
North West

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (64.29%) Migration
3 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
4 8 (57.14%) VMware
4 8 (57.14%) ITIL
5 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (42.86%) SCCM
6 6 (42.86%) SCOM
6 6 (42.86%) DHCP
6 6 (42.86%) DNS
6 6 (42.86%) Windows NT
6 6 (42.86%) Citrix
6 6 (42.86%) SAN
6 6 (42.86%) Clustering
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
8 4 (28.57%) HP
9 3 (21.43%) Middleware
9 3 (21.43%) BMC
9 3 (21.43%) UNIX
9 3 (21.43%) Linux
9 3 (21.43%) SQL
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle
10 2 (14.29%) SCVMM
10 2 (14.29%) Banking
10 2 (14.29%) Information Management
10 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (14.29%) Project Management
10 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 Development
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Project
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Wintel Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Wintel Specialist
4 3 (21.43%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Wintel Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.143%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (42.86%) Windows NT
5 3 (21.43%) UNIX
5 3 (21.43%) Linux
6 1 (7.143%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Migration
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Information Management
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.143%) Validation
4 1 (7.143%) Change Management
4 1 (7.143%) Change Control
4 1 (7.143%) Project Planning
4 1 (7.143%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) SCCM
1 6 (42.86%) SCOM
2 2 (14.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Citrix
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) HP
5 3 (21.43%) BMC
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle