Windows Server 2003 Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Rank 34 41 35
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 27 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 3.740% 3.218% 4.020%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.21% 12.21% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 28
Average daily rate £239 £288 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.78% +12.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £142 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £349 £293
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
Average hourly rate £19.50 £27.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.09% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £18.00
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 190 213 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 26.32% 26.36% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 99 198
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £199 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £478 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.98% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows Server 2003
North West

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Cheshire Windows Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Windows Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 7 £230 -
Knutsford -3 6 £235 -14.63%
Warrington -5 1 £475 +65.21%
Windows Server 2003
North West

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (73.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 17 (40.48%) Citrix
5 16 (38.10%) Migration
6 15 (35.71%) MS Exchange
7 14 (33.33%) VMware
7 14 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
9 12 (28.57%) ITIL
9 12 (28.57%) Clustering
10 10 (23.81%) SCCM
10 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
10 10 (23.81%) HP
11 9 (21.43%) Windows 2000
12 8 (19.05%) DNS
12 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
12 8 (19.05%) Windows 7
13 7 (16.67%) XenApp
13 7 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
13 7 (16.67%) DHCP
13 7 (16.67%) Windows XP
13 7 (16.67%) SQL
13 7 (16.67%) SAN
14 6 (14.29%) Finance
14 6 (14.29%) MCITP
15 5 (11.90%) AppSense
15 5 (11.90%) SCOM
15 5 (11.90%) Exchange Server 2003
15 5 (11.90%) Blackberry

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (7.143%) Middleware
2 2 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 15 (35.71%) MS Exchange
2 14 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (11.90%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (9.524%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.381%) IIS
6 1 (2.381%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.762%) MS Office
3 1 (2.381%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) DNS
2 7 (16.67%) DHCP
2 7 (16.67%) SAN
3 5 (11.90%) SMTP
4 4 (9.524%) WAN
4 4 (9.524%) LAN
4 4 (9.524%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.762%) NAS
6 1 (2.381%) Firewall
6 1 (2.381%) VLAN
6 1 (2.381%) VoIP
6 1 (2.381%) HTTP
6 1 (2.381%) SNMP
6 1 (2.381%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MSI
General
1 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Wintel Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (9.524%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.524%) Wintel Analyst
5 3 (7.143%) IT Support
5 3 (7.143%) Wintel Specialist
5 3 (7.143%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (7.143%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.143%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.143%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.143%) Messaging Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Technical Designer
6 2 (4.762%) Project Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.762%) Systems Support Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Consultant
6 2 (4.762%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Clustering
2 5 (11.90%) Blackberry
3 3 (7.143%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.762%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.762%) FMCG
4 2 (4.762%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (73.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (21.43%) Windows 2000
4 8 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 7 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 5 (11.90%) Windows NT
7 3 (7.143%) Linux
7 3 (7.143%) UNIX
8 2 (4.762%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (2.381%) Windows Vista
9 1 (2.381%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Migration
2 12 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (9.524%) Incident Management
4 3 (7.143%) Data Analysis
4 3 (7.143%) Capacity Management
5 2 (4.762%) Information Management
5 2 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (4.762%) Project Management
5 2 (4.762%) Service Management
6 1 (2.381%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.381%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.381%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.381%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.381%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.381%) Problem Management
6 1 (2.381%) Time Management
6 1 (2.381%) Software Architecture
6 1 (2.381%) Network Management
6 1 (2.381%) Change Control
6 1 (2.381%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (2.381%) VB
3 1 (2.381%) VB.NET
3 1 (2.381%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) MCITP
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (9.524%) MCTS
4 3 (7.143%) MCSE
5 2 (4.762%) MCSA
5 2 (4.762%) CCNP
5 2 (4.762%) CCNA
5 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 7 (16.67%) XenApp
4 4 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.762%) vSphere
6 1 (2.381%) Postfix
6 1 (2.381%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.381%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) SCCM
2 5 (11.90%) SCOM
3 2 (4.762%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.381%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (2.381%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.381%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Citrix
2 14 (33.33%) VMware
3 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
4 10 (23.81%) HP
5 5 (11.90%) AppSense
6 4 (9.524%) Oracle
7 3 (7.143%) Cisco
7 3 (7.143%) BMC
8 2 (4.762%) Remedy
9 1 (2.381%) SAP
9 1 (2.381%) IronPort
9 1 (2.381%) Twitter
9 1 (2.381%) Hitachi
9 1 (2.381%) NetApp
9 1 (2.381%) Symantec
9 1 (2.381%) Dell
9 1 (2.381%) EMC
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