County Antrim Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the County Antrim 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	10
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	20	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	32.79 %	38.46 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£313
Average daily rate	£188	£333
% change on same period last year	-43.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£321
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	-
Average hourly rate	£34.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.52	£22.90
% change on same period last year	-6.02 %
Operating Systems County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	61	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.039 %
Daily rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£288
Average daily rate	£227	£305
% change on same period last year	-25.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£240	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£9.28
% change on same period last year	+266.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£10.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Windows Server 2003 Northern Ireland

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 Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the County Antrim region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Belfast	0	20	£188	-43.69 %

Windows Server 2003 Northern Ireland

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 27 (100.00 %) Windows 2 19 (70.37 %) Windows 2000 3 18 (66.67 %) Active Directory 3 18 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 16 (59.26 %) Microsoft 5 12 (44.44 %) Finance 6 9 (33.33 %) MS Excel 7 8 (29.63 %) HP 7 8 (29.63 %) TCP/IP 7 8 (29.63 %) Citrix 7 8 (29.63 %) VMware 8 6 (22.22 %) IIS 9 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 9 5 (18.52 %) VBScript 9 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft Certification

9 5 (18.52 %) MCSE 10 4 (14.81 %) Banking 10 4 (14.81 %) VB 11 3 (11.11 %) SQL 11 3 (11.11 %) DHCP 11 3 (11.11 %) Windows NT 11 3 (11.11 %) DNS 11 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (11.11 %) ARCserve 11 3 (11.11 %) Financial Institution 12 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2000 12 2 (7.407 %) Symantec 12 2 (7.407 %) Dell 12 2 (7.407 %) Migration 12 2 (7.407 %) WMI

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 2 (7.407 %) WMI 2 1 (3.704 %) ASP 2 1 (3.704 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.704 %) CSS 2 1 (3.704 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (22.22 %) IIS 2 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (7.407 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 9 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (29.63 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (11.11 %) DHCP 2 3 (11.11 %) DNS 3 2 (7.407 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (18.52 %) SQL Server 2 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) Flash 1 1 (3.704 %) Visual Studio
General 1 12 (44.44 %) Finance 2 4 (14.81 %) Banking 3 3 (11.11 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (7.407 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (3.704 %) Education	Job Titles 1 9 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Engineer 2 6 (22.22 %) Consultant 2 6 (22.22 %) Infrastructure Consultant 3 5 (18.52 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (14.81 %) Wintel Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) Senior Server Engineer 5 3 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Technical Consultant 6 2 (7.407 %) Administrator 6 2 (7.407 %) Migration Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Server Support 6 2 (7.407 %) Server Support Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Project Engineer 6 2 (7.407 %) Wintel Support 7 1 (3.704 %) Server Administrator 7 1 (3.704 %) Systems Administrator 7 1 (3.704 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Support
Operating Systems 1 27 (100.00 %) Windows 2 19 (70.37 %) Windows 2000 3 18 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (11.11 %) Windows NT 5 2 (7.407 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (7.407 %) Windows XP 6 1 (3.704 %) HPUX 6 1 (3.704 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.407 %) Migration 2 1 (3.704 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (18.52 %) VBScript 2 4 (14.81 %) VB 3 3 (11.11 %) SQL 4 1 (3.704 %) ActionScript 4 1 (3.704 %) C# 4 1 (3.704 %) C++ 4 1 (3.704 %) DHTML 4 1 (3.704 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 5 (18.52 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (18.52 %) MCSE 2 2 (7.407 %) A+ Certification
System Software 1 18 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (11.11 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 16 (59.26 %) Microsoft 2 8 (29.63 %) HP 2 8 (29.63 %) Citrix 2 8 (29.63 %) VMware 3 2 (7.407 %) Symantec 3 2 (7.407 %) Dell 4 1 (3.704 %) VERITAS 4 1 (3.704 %) Compaq