East Sussex Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the East Sussex 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	33
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	11.11 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£265	£299
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£19.94
Average hourly rate	£9.00	£21.19
% change on same period last year	-57.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£22.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.42	£18.06
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Operating Systems East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	35	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£289
Average daily rate	£500	£297
% change on same period last year	+68.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.09	£19.24
Average hourly rate	£16.39	£20.45
% change on same period last year	-19.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.69	£21.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.51	£22.79
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Windows 2000 South East

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 East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

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 East Sussex region.

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 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
Brighton	+6	2	-	-
Hove	-	1	-	-

Windows 2000 South East

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 18 (75.00 %) Windows XP 3 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory 3 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 3 10 (41.67 %) SQL 4 9 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 5 8 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (29.17 %) VPN 7 6 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET 7 6 (25.00 %) .NET 7 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 7 6 (25.00 %) WAN 7 6 (25.00 %) Finance 7 6 (25.00 %) Systems Analysis

8 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 5 (20.83 %) ERP 9 4 (16.67 %) LAN 9 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 9 4 (16.67 %) Local Government 9 4 (16.67 %) Degree 9 4 (16.67 %) Computer Science 9 4 (16.67 %) Government 9 4 (16.67 %) Service Management 9 4 (16.67 %) ITSM 10 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 10 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 11 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 11 2 (8.333 %) ASP 11 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 6 (25.00 %) .NET 1 6 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (8.333 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (29.17 %) VPN 3 6 (25.00 %) WAN 4 4 (16.67 %) LAN 5 2 (8.333 %) Internet 6 1 (4.167 %) Firewall 6 1 (4.167 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.167 %) MSI
General 1 6 (25.00 %) Finance 2 4 (16.67 %) Government 2 4 (16.67 %) Local Government 3 1 (4.167 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Analyst Programmer 2 6 (25.00 %) Programmer 2 6 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (25.00 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 2 6 (25.00 %) .NET Programmer 2 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 2 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET Programmer 3 5 (20.83 %) IT Manager 4 4 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Manager 4 4 (16.67 %) IT Support Engineer 5 3 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (8.333 %) Rollout Engineer 6 2 (8.333 %) PC Support Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) PC Support 6 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (4.167 %) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) Computer Science 2 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 18 (75.00 %) Windows XP 3 8 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (20.83 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (4.167 %) SUSE 5 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) Systems Analysis 2 5 (20.83 %) ERP 3 4 (16.67 %) Service Management 3 4 (16.67 %) ITSM 4 1 (4.167 %) Migration 4 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 10 (41.67 %) SQL 2 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) Degree 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft