The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 24 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 Crawley 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 10 29 20
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 16 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 10.74% 2.166% 5.738%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.54% 25.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 2
Average daily rate £425 £356 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.29% -26.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+7.89% +8.57%
All Operating Systems
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
26 24 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 17.45% 8.664% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 5
Average daily rate £400 £388 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -20.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.73% -32.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
West Sussex

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Crawley region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Crawley Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

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 Crawley region.

Crawley Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (70.83%) VMware
3 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 12 (50.00%) DNS
5 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
5 11 (45.83%) Citrix
6 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (41.67%) DHCP
6 10 (41.67%) XenApp
6 10 (41.67%) vSphere
7 8 (33.33%) HP
7 8 (33.33%) VPN
7 8 (33.33%) Finance
7 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (29.17%) Back Office
8 7 (29.17%) Linux
9 6 (25.00%) WAN
9 6 (25.00%) LAN
9 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
9 6 (25.00%) Cisco
9 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (25.00%) Firewall
9 6 (25.00%) VMware ESX
9 6 (25.00%) Online Betting
10 5 (20.83%) SCCM
10 5 (20.83%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 5 (20.83%) IBM
10 5 (20.83%) ITIL
11 4 (16.67%) Oracle
11 4 (16.67%) SQL Server

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 Development
1 2 (8.333%) Web Services
1 2 (8.333%) .NET
2 1 (4.167%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (12.50%) IIS
3 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (8.333%) Zimbra
5 1 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.167%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
2 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.167%) MS Project
3 1 (4.167%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) DNS
2 10 (41.67%) DHCP
3 8 (33.33%) VPN
4 6 (25.00%) WAN
4 6 (25.00%) LAN
4 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (25.00%) Firewall
5 4 (16.67%) SSL
5 4 (16.67%) SAN
5 4 (16.67%) IPsec
6 2 (8.333%) ADSL
6 2 (8.333%) Broadband
6 2 (8.333%) ISDN
6 2 (8.333%) WLAN
6 2 (8.333%) SMTP
6 2 (8.333%) HTTP
6 2 (8.333%) EIGRP
6 2 (8.333%) BGP
6 2 (8.333%) OSPF
6 2 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (8.333%) MySQL
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MSBuild
1 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (4.167%) InstallShield
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Back Office
3 6 (25.00%) Online Betting
4 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (16.67%) Wintel Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Support Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (8.333%) Network Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Team Leader
5 2 (8.333%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
6 1 (4.167%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Mainframe
1 2 (8.333%) IVR
1 2 (8.333%) iSeries
1 2 (8.333%) SecurID
1 2 (8.333%) CCTV
2 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) UNIX
5 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.333%) AIX
7 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.167%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) ITIL
2 4 (16.67%) Project Management
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (8.333%) Service Management
4 2 (8.333%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.333%) Performance Management
4 2 (8.333%) Project Planning
4 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.167%) Budget Control
5 1 (4.167%) Waterfall
5 1 (4.167%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
5 1 (4.167%) Data Security
5 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.167%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.167%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (41.67%) XenApp
2 10 (41.67%) vSphere
3 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (25.00%) VMware ESX
5 5 (20.83%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (8.333%) Postfix
8 1 (4.167%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 2 (8.333%) Cisco IPCC
2 2 (8.333%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.167%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) VMware
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) Citrix
3 8 (33.33%) HP
4 6 (25.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.83%) IBM
6 4 (16.67%) Oracle
6 4 (16.67%) Avaya
6 4 (16.67%) Juniper
6 4 (16.67%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.333%) Sophos
7 2 (8.333%) Nortel
7 2 (8.333%) CA
7 2 (8.333%) CommVault
7 2 (8.333%) Verint
8 1 (4.167%) NetApp
8 1 (4.167%) Lotus
8 1 (4.167%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.167%) Remedy
8 1 (4.167%) EMC