Edinburgh Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Edinburgh 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	38
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	12	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	8.054 %	11.36 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£185	£268
Average daily rate	£193	£289
% change on same period last year	-33.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£11.50
Average hourly rate	-	£12.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.68	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Operating Systems Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	149	264
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.267 %
Daily rates quoted	25	49
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£310
Average daily rate	£300	£327
% change on same period last year	-8.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.09	£19.52
Average hourly rate	£17.72	£20.22
% change on same period last year	-12.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.35	£20.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Server 2003 Scotland

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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

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 Edinburgh region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 33 (100.00 %) Windows 2 14 (42.42 %) Active Directory 3 13 (39.39 %) Microsoft 3 13 (39.39 %) Finance 4 8 (24.24 %) HP 4 8 (24.24 %) SQL 4 8 (24.24 %) UNIX 4 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (21.21 %) Windows NT 5 7 (21.21 %) AIX 5 7 (21.21 %) OpenDeploy 5 7 (21.21 %) TeamSite 6 6 (18.18 %) Interwoven 6 6 (18.18 %) Citrix 6 6 (18.18 %) VMware

6 6 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 5 (15.15 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 5 (15.15 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (12.12 %) IBM 8 4 (12.12 %) Sun 8 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 8 4 (12.12 %) Perl 8 4 (12.12 %) MCSE 8 4 (12.12 %) XML 8 4 (12.12 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2005 8 4 (12.12 %) WebSphere 9 3 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 9 3 (9.091 %) Back Office

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (12.12 %) XML 1 4 (12.12 %) WebSphere 2 3 (9.091 %) .NET 3 2 (6.061 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (21.21 %) TeamSite 3 6 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (9.091 %) IIS 5 2 (6.061 %) Apache 5 2 (6.061 %) Oracle HTTP Server 5 2 (6.061 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) SAN 2 2 (6.061 %) Internet 2 2 (6.061 %) HTTP 2 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.030 %) DNS 3 1 (3.030 %) LAN 3 1 (3.030 %) WAN 3 1 (3.030 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (6.061 %) DB2 3 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) OpenDeploy 2 3 (9.091 %) ClearCase 3 2 (6.061 %) CruiseControl
General 1 13 (39.39 %) Finance 2 4 (12.12 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (9.091 %) Back Office 3 3 (9.091 %) Banking 3 3 (9.091 %) Retail 4 2 (6.061 %) Pensions 4 2 (6.061 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (3.030 %) Government	Job Titles 1 10 (30.30 %) Analyst 2 5 (15.15 %) Administrator 3 4 (12.12 %) Senior Analyst 3 4 (12.12 %) Consultant 3 4 (12.12 %) DBA 3 4 (12.12 %) SQL DBA 4 3 (9.091 %) Technical Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Architect 5 2 (6.061 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (6.061 %) Configuration Manager 5 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server DBA 5 2 (6.061 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 2 (6.061 %) Senior Systems Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Desktop Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Server Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Senior Server Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Citrix Support 6 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.091 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 33 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (24.24 %) UNIX 3 7 (21.21 %) Windows NT 3 7 (21.21 %) AIX 4 3 (9.091 %) Solaris 4 3 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (6.061 %) NetWare 6 1 (3.030 %) Windows XP 6 1 (3.030 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.061 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (3.030 %) Migration 3 1 (3.030 %) Asset Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (24.24 %) SQL 2 4 (12.12 %) Perl 3 3 (9.091 %) C 4 2 (6.061 %) VB 5 1 (3.030 %) Shell Script 5 1 (3.030 %) Java 5 1 (3.030 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 4 (12.12 %) MCSE 1 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.061 %) SLA
System Software 1 14 (42.42 %) Active Directory 2 5 (15.15 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 2 (6.061 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (6.061 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (6.061 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.030 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 5 (15.15 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (9.091 %) OpenView 3 2 (6.061 %) Tivoli 3 2 (6.061 %) MOM 4 1 (3.030 %) Legato 4 1 (3.030 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (3.030 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (3.030 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 13 (39.39 %) Microsoft 2 8 (24.24 %) HP 3 6 (18.18 %) Citrix 3 6 (18.18 %) Interwoven 3 6 (18.18 %) VMware 4 4 (12.12 %) IBM 4 4 (12.12 %) Sun 5 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 5 3 (9.091 %) Novell 5 3 (9.091 %) VERITAS 5 3 (9.091 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 6 2 (6.061 %) CommVault 7 1 (3.030 %) Compaq 7 1 (3.030 %) Intel 7 1 (3.030 %) Sophos 7 1 (3.030 %) Symantec