Derbyshire Windows 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Derbyshire 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 2000 over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	30
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	14	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	27.45 %	8.759 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£75	£380
Average daily rate	£78	£390
% change on same period last year	-80.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£80	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£240	£268
% change on same period last year	-10.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.37	£12.83
Average hourly rate	£15.60	£12.85
% change on same period last year	+21.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.84	£12.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.83	£17.34
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Operating Systems Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	51	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	7	20
Average minimum daily rate	£232	£283
Average daily rate	£247	£291
% change on same period last year	-15.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£263	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£318
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.21	£19.13
Average hourly rate	£17.18	£20.09
% change on same period last year	-14.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.16	£21.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.05	£21.81
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Windows 2000 East Midlands

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Derby	+10	10	£78	-80.12 %
Buxton	-	4	-	-

Windows 2000 East Midlands

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (72.22 %) Windows XP 3 11 (61.11 %) Microsoft Certification 4 9 (50.00 %) Microsoft 5 8 (44.44 %) MCSE 5 8 (44.44 %) MCP 6 7 (38.89 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (27.78 %) Citrix 7 5 (27.78 %) MS Office 7 5 (27.78 %) Windows NT 8 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (16.67 %) Active Directory 9 3 (16.67 %) A+ Certification 10 2 (11.11 %) Lotus

10 2 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes 10 2 (11.11 %) MS Excel 10 2 (11.11 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (5.556 %) Finance 11 1 (5.556 %) Banking 11 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 1 (5.556 %) LANDesk 11 1 (5.556 %) VPN 11 1 (5.556 %) SSL 11 1 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 11 1 (5.556 %) ITIL 11 1 (5.556 %) J2EE 11 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 11 1 (5.556 %) IIS

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 1 (5.556 %) J2EE 1 1 (5.556 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (5.556 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (27.78 %) MS Office 2 2 (11.11 %) MS Excel 3 1 (5.556 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 4 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (5.556 %) VPN 2 1 (5.556 %) SSL
General 1 2 (11.11 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (5.556 %) Banking 2 1 (5.556 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (38.89 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (33.33 %) Technical Support 3 5 (27.78 %) Analyst 4 4 (22.22 %) Desktop Support 4 4 (22.22 %) Technical Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (16.67 %) Technical Support Engineer 5 3 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Support 5 3 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Desktop Engineer 5 3 (16.67 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (11.11 %) Rollout Engineer 6 2 (11.11 %) 1st Line Support 7 1 (5.556 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 1 (5.556 %) Server Support 7 1 (5.556 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (5.556 %) Service Analyst 7 1 (5.556 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (5.556 %) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (72.22 %) Windows XP 3 7 (38.89 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (27.78 %) Windows NT 5 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (5.556 %) UNIX 6 1 (5.556 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (5.556 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (5.556 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 11 (61.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (44.44 %) MCP 2 8 (44.44 %) MCSE 3 3 (16.67 %) A+ Certification	System Software 1 3 (16.67 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (5.556 %) Legato 1 1 (5.556 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 9 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (27.78 %) Citrix 3 2 (11.11 %) Lotus 4 1 (5.556 %) Symantec 4 1 (5.556 %) Remedy 4 1 (5.556 %) LANDesk 4 1 (5.556 %) HP 4 1 (5.556 %) Oracle