Windows Server 2008 Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2008 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 Chester 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 Server 2008
Rank 15 21 21
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 10 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.042% 0.855% 1.242%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 2.857% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £230 - £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.70 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+7.89% +8.57%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 50 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 35.21% 29.91% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 13
Average daily rate £265 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.89% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
Cheshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Chester Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Chester region.

Chester Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Chester region.

Chester Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (68.42%) SCCM
4 12 (63.16%) Citrix
5 11 (57.89%) ITIL
5 11 (57.89%) VMware
6 8 (42.11%) Clustering
6 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
7 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
7 7 (36.84%) Migration
7 7 (36.84%) Windows 2000
7 7 (36.84%) DHCP
7 7 (36.84%) SAN
7 7 (36.84%) DNS
7 7 (36.84%) HP
8 6 (31.58%) Windows NT
8 6 (31.58%) SCOM
9 5 (26.32%) XenApp
10 4 (21.05%) Local Government
10 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
10 4 (21.05%) PRINCE2
11 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
11 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
11 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
12 2 (10.53%) AppDNA
12 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (10.53%) AppSense
12 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
12 2 (10.53%) SCVMM
12 2 (10.53%) Citrix Presentation Server

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.263%) MS Project
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
1 1 (5.263%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 1 (5.263%) LAN
2 1 (5.263%) WAN
2 1 (5.263%) SMTP
2 1 (5.263%) HTTP
2 1 (5.263%) SNMP
2 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.263%) SSL
2 1 (5.263%) NAS
2 1 (5.263%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (21.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Wintel Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Wintel Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Server Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Wintel Specialist
4 3 (15.79%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) IT Support
5 2 (10.53%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Project Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.263%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 2000
4 6 (31.58%) Windows NT
5 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ITIL
2 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) PRINCE2
4 2 (10.53%) CRM
5 1 (5.263%) PRINCE
5 1 (5.263%) Project Planning
5 1 (5.263%) Service Management
5 1 (5.263%) Change Management
5 1 (5.263%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (5.263%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
2 5 (26.32%) XenApp
3 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) SCCM
2 6 (31.58%) SCOM
3 2 (10.53%) AppDNA
3 2 (10.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Citrix
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 7 (36.84%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) AppSense
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Symantec
4 2 (10.53%) Remedy
4 2 (10.53%) McAfee
5 1 (5.263%) Dell
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