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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the East of England region.

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank392736
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Up+9
Matching contract IT job ads53111173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England3.162 %5.144 %3.936 %
As % of the Operating Systems category14.32 %21.94 %18.89 %
Daily rates quoted173754
Average daily rate£295£300£180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.660 %+66.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£157£140
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£410
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£313£300
% change year-on-year
-4.000 %+4.160 %
Hourly rates quoted172639
Average hourly rate£19.00£17.00£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.40£10.80£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.60£31.00£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.75£20.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-28.04 %+2.500 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
370506916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England22.08 %23.45 %20.84 %
Daily rates quoted131144254
Average daily rate£290£325£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£110£140£140
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£451
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£306£334
% change year-on-year
+1.550 %-8.530 %
Hourly rates quoted10790224
Average hourly rate£20.00£19.50£18.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.560 %+4.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.29£10.50£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£38.00£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Windows Server 2003 EnglandWindows Server 2003
England

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.

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 East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East of England Windows Server 2003 Demand Trend

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 East of England region.

East of England Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

East of England Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

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 East of England region.

East of England Windows Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

East of England Windows Server 2003 Hourly Rate Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EssexDown-1515£375-7.69 %
CambridgeshireDown-1614£275-2.65 %
HertfordshireUp+912£313+212.50 %
SuffolkDown-128£275+10.00 %
NorfolkDown-12--
BedfordshireDown-71£225+2.27 %
Windows Server 2003 EnglandWindows Server 2003
England

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1108 (100.00 %)Windows
247 (43.52 %)Microsoft
346 (42.59 %)Active Directory
429 (26.85 %)Windows Server 2008
528 (25.93 %)HP
627 (25.00 %)SQL Server
722 (20.37 %)Microsoft Certification
821 (19.44 %)VMware
920 (18.52 %)MS Exchange
1018 (16.67 %)Windows 2000
1018 (16.67 %)MCSE
1116 (14.81 %)SQL
1116 (14.81 %)DNS
1116 (14.81 %)Exchange Server 2003
1215 (13.89 %)Windows XP
1314 (12.96 %)MS Office
1413 (12.04 %)VMware Infrastructure
1512 (11.11 %)Firewall
1512 (11.11 %)VB
1611 (10.19 %)Linux
1611 (10.19 %)Cisco
1611 (10.19 %)Shell Script
1611 (10.19 %)Clustering
1710 (9.259 %)SQL Server 2005
1710 (9.259 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1710 (9.259 %)SharePoint
1710 (9.259 %).NET
189 (8.333 %)Lotus Domino
189 (8.333 %)SAN
198 (7.407 %)IDOL

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (9.259 %).NET
25 (4.630 %)ASP.NET
34 (3.704 %)Silverlight
43 (2.778 %).NET Framework
51 (0.926 %)J2EE
51 (0.926 %)ADO.NET
51 (0.926 %)Web Services
51 (0.926 %)XML
51 (0.926 %)JMS
51 (0.926 %)JavaBeans
51 (0.926 %)Spring
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
120 (18.52 %)MS Exchange
216 (14.81 %)Exchange Server 2003
310 (9.259 %)SharePoint Server 2007
310 (9.259 %)SharePoint
49 (8.333 %)Lotus Domino
58 (7.407 %)Exchange Server 2000
58 (7.407 %)Documentum
66 (5.556 %)IIS
75 (4.630 %)GroupWise
83 (2.778 %)BizTalk Server
83 (2.778 %)SharePoint Portal Server
92 (1.852 %)Exchange Server 2007
92 (1.852 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
92 (1.852 %)Lotus Notes
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (12.96 %)MS Office
28 (7.407 %)MS Excel
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (2.778 %)Dynamics CRM
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
116 (14.81 %)DNS
212 (11.11 %)Firewall
39 (8.333 %)SAN
47 (6.481 %)DHCP
56 (5.556 %)TCP/IP
56 (5.556 %)WAN
56 (5.556 %)SMTP
65 (4.630 %)LAN
65 (4.630 %)VPN
74 (3.704 %)VoIP
82 (1.852 %)Internet
91 (0.926 %)FTP
91 (0.926 %)DSL
91 (0.926 %)Intranet
91 (0.926 %)Wireless
91 (0.926 %)Network Security
91 (0.926 %)iSCSI
91 (0.926 %)VLAN
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
127 (25.00 %)SQL Server
210 (9.259 %)SQL Server 2005
38 (7.407 %)IDOL
47 (6.481 %)Oracle 10g
47 (6.481 %)SQL Server 2000
55 (4.630 %)SQL Server 2008
64 (3.704 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
64 (3.704 %)SQL Server Integration Services
64 (3.704 %)PerformancePoint
64 (3.704 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
73 (2.778 %)Oracle 8/8i
82 (1.852 %)BusinessObjects
91 (0.926 %)MySQL
91 (0.926 %)Oracle Reports
91 (0.926 %)DTS
91 (0.926 %)Oracle Discoverer
91 (0.926 %)RDBMS
91 (0.926 %)FileMaker
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (3.704 %)Visual Studio
21 (0.926 %)Oracle Forms
21 (0.926 %)Dreamweaver
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (4.630 %)Government
24 (3.704 %)Finance
24 (3.704 %)Telecoms
31 (0.926 %)Financial Institution
31 (0.926 %)Marketing
31 (0.926 %)Insurance
31 (0.926 %)Banking
31 (0.926 %)Retail
31 (0.926 %)Education
31 (0.926 %)Health
31 (0.926 %)Manufacturing
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
118 (16.67 %)Analyst
118 (16.67 %)Administrator
213 (12.04 %)Support Analyst
310 (9.259 %)Desktop Support
49 (8.333 %)Server Engineer
58 (7.407 %)Network Administrator
67 (6.481 %)Consultant
67 (6.481 %)Support Engineer
67 (6.481 %)Designer
76 (5.556 %)Desktop Support Analyst
76 (5.556 %)Desktop Analyst
76 (5.556 %)Developer
76 (5.556 %)Architect
85 (4.630 %)Technical Architect
85 (4.630 %)Systems Administrator
85 (4.630 %)Server Support
85 (4.630 %)Service Analyst
94 (3.704 %)Server Analyst
94 (3.704 %)SharePoint Developer
94 (3.704 %)IT Support
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
111 (10.19 %)Clustering
26 (5.556 %)Blackberry
26 (5.556 %)NHS
32 (1.852 %)Cloud Computing
32 (1.852 %)Amazon EC2
32 (1.852 %)Client/Server
41 (0.926 %)N-Tier
41 (0.926 %)PDA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1108 (100.00 %)Windows
229 (26.85 %)Windows Server 2008
318 (16.67 %)Windows 2000
415 (13.89 %)Windows XP
511 (10.19 %)Linux
68 (7.407 %)Windows 2000 Server
68 (7.407 %)Red Hat Linux
75 (4.630 %)HPUX
84 (3.704 %)NetWare
93 (2.778 %)UNIX
93 (2.778 %)Windows NT
102 (1.852 %)Windows 7
102 (1.852 %)AIX
111 (0.926 %)Windows Vista
111 (0.926 %)Windows Mobile
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (6.481 %)Migration
26 (5.556 %)ITIL
34 (3.704 %)Web Development
34 (3.704 %)Business Intelligence
43 (2.778 %)SOA
43 (2.778 %)CRM
43 (2.778 %)Security Management
43 (2.778 %)Document Management
52 (1.852 %)Incident Management
52 (1.852 %)Disaster Recovery
52 (1.852 %)Change Management
52 (1.852 %)Configuration Management
61 (0.926 %)OOA/OOD
61 (0.926 %)OOD
61 (0.926 %)E-Commerce
61 (0.926 %)Project Management
61 (0.926 %)Risk Management
61 (0.926 %)Performance Management
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116 (14.81 %)SQL
212 (11.11 %)VB
311 (10.19 %)Shell Script
47 (6.481 %)VBScript
56 (5.556 %)C
56 (5.556 %)Java
64 (3.704 %)PowerShell
64 (3.704 %)PL/SQL
72 (1.852 %)C#
81 (0.926 %)T-SQL
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
122 (20.37 %)Microsoft Certification
218 (16.67 %)MCSE
36 (5.556 %)Security Cleared
44 (3.704 %)MCSA
53 (2.778 %)MCP
53 (2.778 %)CCNA
53 (2.778 %)Cisco Certification
53 (2.778 %)SC Cleared
62 (1.852 %)A+ Certification
71 (0.926 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.926 %)Degree
71 (0.926 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
71 (0.926 %)Network+ Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.852 %)ISO27001
21 (0.926 %)SLA
21 (0.926 %)QA
21 (0.926 %)PCI DSS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
146 (42.59 %)Active Directory
213 (12.04 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (5.556 %)VMware Server
43 (2.778 %)ISA Server
52 (1.852 %)VMware ESX
52 (1.852 %)MSMQ
61 (0.926 %)Terminal Services
61 (0.926 %)vSphere
61 (0.926 %)XenApp
61 (0.926 %)XenServer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (5.556 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
24 (3.704 %)OpenView Configuration Management
33 (2.778 %)OpenView
33 (2.778 %)SCCM
33 (2.778 %)WSUS
42 (1.852 %)HP Data Protector
42 (1.852 %)Tivoli
42 (1.852 %)ARCserve
51 (0.926 %)CiscoWorks
51 (0.926 %)MSI
51 (0.926 %)Legato
51 (0.926 %)ZENworks
51 (0.926 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.926 %)SCOM
51 (0.926 %)Backup Exec
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
147 (43.52 %)Microsoft
228 (25.93 %)HP
321 (19.44 %)VMware
411 (10.19 %)Cisco
58 (7.407 %)Red Hat
58 (7.407 %)Oracle
67 (6.481 %)Citrix
75 (4.630 %)Novell
75 (4.630 %)Dell
75 (4.630 %)Avaya
84 (3.704 %)CheckPoint
84 (3.704 %)Compaq
93 (2.778 %)Lotus
102 (1.852 %)Altiris
102 (1.852 %)Symantec
102 (1.852 %)Business Objects
111 (0.926 %)IBM
111 (0.926 %)Adobe
111 (0.926 %)CA
111 (0.926 %)NetApp