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Windows Server 2003 Contracts in England

Browse 379 Windows Server 2003 job vacancies in England

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 18 June 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 England 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.

3 months to
18 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

-10

Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003

1253

1339

1730

As % of all contract IT jobs located in England

2.862%

2.526%

3.026%

As % of the Operating Systems category

12.96%

12.16%

14.22%

Number of daily rates quoted

566

584

849

Average daily rate

£325

£320

£325

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+1.56%

-1.53%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£180

£181

£200

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£450

UK excluding London average daily rate

£320

£275

£300

% change year-on-year

+16.36%

-8.33%

Number of hourly rates quoted

129

195

222

Average hourly rate

£19.00

£19.63

£21.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-3.18%

-6.54%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.95

£11.47

£12.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£34.10

£35.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£18.00

£17.50

£18.25

% change year-on-year

+2.85%

-4.10%

All Operating Systems
England

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category

9665

11011

12170

As % of all contract IT jobs located in England

22.08%

20.77%

21.28%

Number of daily rates quoted

5308

5551

6157

Average daily rate

£361

£350

£375

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+3.21%

-6.66%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£194

£195

£210

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£525

£500

£550

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

Number of hourly rates quoted

945

1154

1189

Average hourly rate

£17.50

£17.87

£17.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-2.04%

+5.08%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.00

£11.50

£11.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£37.50

£40.00

£36.50

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£16.00

£17.50

£16.20

% change year-on-year

-8.57%

+8.02%

Windows Server 2003
UK

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank 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	Find Job Vacancies
London	-22	449	£350	-	143
South East	+8	347	£320	-	85
East of England	+5	94	£250	-2.91%	24
North West	+20	90	£240	+20.00%	42
Yorkshire	+20	90	£309	+9.29%	23
South West	+33	64	£300	+23.07%	28
West Midlands	+2	55	£251	-22.69%	23
East Midlands	0	41	£288	+15.11%	9
Midlands	-	15	£375	-	1
North East	0	5	£275	-8.33%	3
Windows Server 2003 UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1	2217 (100.00%)	Windows
2	1785 (80.51%)	Windows Server 2008
3	1202 (54.22%)	Active Directory
4	1034 (46.64%)	Microsoft
5	921 (41.54%)	VMware
6	730 (32.93%)	MS Exchange
7	631 (28.46%)	Citrix
8	531 (23.95%)	VMware Infrastructure
9	527 (23.77%)	SQL Server
10	521 (23.50%)	SQL
10	521 (23.50%)	Windows XP
11	510 (23.00%)	Windows 7
12	431 (19.44%)	HP
13	421 (18.99%)	Exchange Server 2010
14	412 (18.58%)	SAN

15	389 (17.55%)	ITIL
16	373 (16.82%)	DNS
17	345 (15.56%)	Microsoft Certification
18	343 (15.47%)	Exchange Server 2003
19	336 (15.16%)	Security Cleared
20	335 (15.11%)	MS Excel
21	330 (14.88%)	MS Office
22	320 (14.43%)	Exchange Server 2007
23	311 (14.03%)	Cisco
24	300 (13.53%)	SCCM
25	289 (13.04%)	Migration
26	283 (12.76%)	DHCP
27	275 (12.40%)	TCP/IP
28	274 (12.36%)	IIS
28	274 (12.36%)	vSphere

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1	183 (8.254%)	.NET
2	94 (4.240%)	ASP.NET
3	67 (3.022%)	HTML
4	65 (2.932%)	Web Services
5	60 (2.706%)	XML
6	48 (2.165%)	.NET Framework
7	43 (1.940%)	Application Packaging
8	35 (1.579%)	jQuery
9	33 (1.488%)	Middleware
9	33 (1.488%)	CSS
10	30 (1.353%)	Ajax
11	29 (1.308%)	J2EE
12	27 (1.218%)	WebSphere
13	25 (1.128%)	ASP
14	23 (1.037%)	Windows SharePoint Services
15	20 (0.902%)	WinForms
16	18 (0.812%)	ADSI
17	17 (0.767%)	JSP
17	17 (0.767%)	COM
18	16 (0.722%)	WCF

Application Platforms
1	730 (32.93%)	MS Exchange
2	421 (18.99%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	343 (15.47%)	Exchange Server 2003
4	320 (14.43%)	Exchange Server 2007
5	274 (12.36%)	IIS
6	258 (11.64%)	SharePoint
7	131 (5.909%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	83 (3.744%)	SharePoint 2010
9	79 (3.563%)	Apache
10	61 (2.751%)	Tomcat
11	49 (2.210%)	SharePoint Server
12	43 (1.940%)	Lync
13	35 (1.579%)	IBM Notes
14	25 (1.128%)	WebLogic
15	22 (0.992%)	Oracle Application Server
16	20 (0.902%)	BizTalk Server
17	17 (0.767%)	Office Communications Server
17	17 (0.767%)	Exchange Server 2013
18	15 (0.677%)	Oracle HTTP Server
19	14 (0.631%)	Lotus Domino

Applications
1	335 (15.11%)	MS Excel
2	330 (14.88%)	MS Office
3	32 (1.443%)	MS Visio
4	17 (0.767%)	MS Project
4	17 (0.767%)	Office 365
5	16 (0.722%)	MS PowerPoint
5	16 (0.722%)	InfoPath
6	7 (0.316%)	Photoshop
7	5 (0.226%)	Spreadsheet
8	4 (0.180%)	S-PLUS
9	2 (0.090%)	AutoCAD

Business Applications
1	19 (0.857%)	Oracle EBS
2	18 (0.812%)	Dynamics CRM
3	8 (0.361%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
4	6 (0.271%)	Maximo
5	3 (0.135%)	Oracle 11i
5	3 (0.135%)	Line 500
5	3 (0.135%)	Remedy ITSM
6	2 (0.090%)	Cognos Planning
6	2 (0.090%)	RMDS
7	1 (0.045%)	assyst
7	1 (0.045%)	Agresso
7	1 (0.045%)	BusinessWorks
7	1 (0.045%)	Dynamics AX
7	1 (0.045%)	Google Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	412 (18.58%)	SAN
2	373 (16.82%)	DNS
3	283 (12.76%)	DHCP
4	275 (12.40%)	TCP/IP
5	250 (11.28%)	LAN
6	236 (10.65%)	WAN
7	223 (10.06%)	Firewall
8	123 (5.548%)	NAS
9	122 (5.503%)	Internet
10	114 (5.142%)	VPN
11	64 (2.887%)	VoIP
12	61 (2.751%)	Cisco ASA
12	61 (2.751%)	Wireless
13	56 (2.526%)	SMTP
14	52 (2.346%)	VLAN
15	49 (2.210%)	HTTP
16	46 (2.075%)	iSCSI
17	43 (1.940%)	Intranet
17	43 (1.940%)	LDAP
18	31 (1.398%)	MPLS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	527 (23.77%)	SQL Server
2	234 (10.55%)	SQL Server 2008
3	228 (10.28%)	SQL Server 2005
4	79 (3.563%)	Oracle 8/8i
5	70 (3.157%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	59 (2.661%)	SQL Server 2000
7	54 (2.436%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	39 (1.759%)	DTS
9	34 (1.534%)	Oracle 11g
10	31 (1.398%)	Oracle 10g
11	30 (1.353%)	MySQL
12	25 (1.128%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
13	19 (0.857%)	OLAP
14	18 (0.812%)	Data Warehouse
15	16 (0.722%)	Oracle Reports
16	14 (0.631%)	IDOL
17	12 (0.541%)	SQL Server 2012
18	11 (0.496%)	MS Access
19	10 (0.451%)	Oracle Discoverer
20	9 (0.406%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	80 (3.608%)	MSI
2	48 (2.165%)	Visual Studio
3	27 (1.218%)	InstallShield
4	21 (0.947%)	AdminStudio
5	16 (0.722%)	LoadRunner
5	16 (0.722%)	Team Foundation Server
6	11 (0.496%)	JIRA
7	9 (0.406%)	NUnit
8	7 (0.316%)	Oracle APEX
8	7 (0.316%)	Git (software)
9	6 (0.271%)	VSS/SourceSafe
9	6 (0.271%)	Oracle Forms
10	5 (0.226%)	PVCS
10	5 (0.226%)	QuickTest Pro
10	5 (0.226%)	StarTeam
10	5 (0.226%)	Wise Package Studio
11	4 (0.180%)	MSBuild
11	4 (0.180%)	WinDbg
11	4 (0.180%)	WinRunner
11	4 (0.180%)	TestDirector

General
1	218 (9.833%)	Finance
2	138 (6.225%)	Banking
3	52 (2.346%)	Retail
4	50 (2.255%)	Telecoms
5	43 (1.940%)	Back Office
5	43 (1.940%)	Investment Banking
6	40 (1.804%)	Law
7	34 (1.534%)	Legal
8	29 (1.308%)	Publishing
9	18 (0.812%)	Financial Institution
9	18 (0.812%)	Advertising
10	15 (0.677%)	Manufacturing
11	10 (0.451%)	Front Office
12	9 (0.406%)	Military
13	8 (0.361%)	French Language
14	7 (0.316%)	Corporate Banking
14	7 (0.316%)	Games
15	3 (0.135%)	Electronics
16	2 (0.090%)	International Banking
16	2 (0.090%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	403 (18.18%)	Analyst
2	271 (12.22%)	Support Engineer
3	211 (9.517%)	3rd Line Support
4	185 (8.345%)	Administrator
5	176 (7.939%)	Support Analyst
6	137 (6.180%)	Infrastructure Engineer
7	121 (5.458%)	2nd Line Support
8	115 (5.187%)	Consultant
9	110 (4.962%)	Server Engineer
10	100 (4.511%)	Systems Administrator
11	88 (3.969%)	Systems Engineer
12	85 (3.834%)	Architect
12	85 (3.834%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
13	80 (3.608%)	Desktop Support
14	71 (3.203%)	Developer
14	71 (3.203%)	Server Support
15	68 (3.067%)	Infrastructure Analyst
16	64 (2.887%)	Wintel Engineer
17	61 (2.751%)	IT Support
18	59 (2.661%)	Applications Support

Miscellaneous
1	200 (9.021%)	Blackberry
2	191 (8.615%)	Clustering
3	41 (1.849%)	Replication
4	38 (1.714%)	Management Information System
5	31 (1.398%)	PKI
6	26 (1.173%)	Hedge funds
7	21 (0.947%)	EqualLogic
8	19 (0.857%)	Enterprise Software
9	18 (0.812%)	iPhone
9	18 (0.812%)	Computer Science
9	18 (0.812%)	NHS
10	15 (0.677%)	Thin Client
10	15 (0.677%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	15 (0.677%)	Fat Client
11	14 (0.631%)	SWIFT
11	14 (0.631%)	Client/Server
12	11 (0.496%)	Derivative
13	9 (0.406%)	Statistics
13	9 (0.406%)	CLARiiON
13	9 (0.406%)	Firmware

Operating Systems
1	2217 (100.00%)	Windows
2	1785 (80.51%)	Windows Server 2008
3	521 (23.50%)	Windows XP
4	510 (23.00%)	Windows 7
5	225 (10.15%)	Linux
6	185 (8.345%)	Windows 2000
7	155 (6.991%)	UNIX
8	124 (5.593%)	Windows Vista
9	111 (5.007%)	Windows Server 2012
10	87 (3.924%)	Windows 2000 Server
11	84 (3.789%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	64 (2.887%)	Solaris
13	53 (2.391%)	Windows NT
14	50 (2.255%)	Windows 8
15	49 (2.210%)	Mac OS X
16	27 (1.218%)	AIX
16	27 (1.218%)	Oracle Linux
17	17 (0.767%)	CentOS
17	17 (0.767%)	HPUX
18	13 (0.586%)	NetWare

Processes & Methodologies
1	389 (17.55%)	ITIL
2	289 (13.04%)	Migration
3	100 (4.511%)	Disaster Recovery
4	89 (4.014%)	Project Management
5	86 (3.879%)	Service Management
5	86 (3.879%)	Change Management
6	59 (2.661%)	Service Delivery
6	59 (2.661%)	PRINCE2
6	59 (2.661%)	Incident Management
7	54 (2.436%)	Configuration Management
8	46 (2.075%)	Software Deployment
9	43 (1.940%)	Capacity Planning
10	41 (1.849%)	Business Continuity
11	39 (1.759%)	Capacity Management
12	38 (1.714%)	Problem Management
13	37 (1.669%)	Change Control
14	34 (1.534%)	Network Load Balancing
14	34 (1.534%)	Asset Management
15	33 (1.488%)	Release Management
16	32 (1.443%)	Root Cause Analysis

Programming Languages
1	521 (23.50%)	SQL
2	240 (10.83%)	PowerShell
3	161 (7.262%)	VBScript
4	127 (5.728%)	VB
5	116 (5.232%)	C#
6	72 (3.248%)	T-SQL
7	58 (2.616%)	Java
8	57 (2.571%)	JavaScript
9	45 (2.030%)	PL/SQL
10	34 (1.534%)	C
11	27 (1.218%)	Perl
12	26 (1.173%)	C++
13	22 (0.992%)	Python
14	21 (0.947%)	Shell Script
15	18 (0.812%)	VB.NET
16	14 (0.631%)	PHP
17	13 (0.586%)	VB6
18	9 (0.406%)	Ruby
18	9 (0.406%)	Bash shell
19	5 (0.226%)	R

Qualifications
1	345 (15.56%)	Microsoft Certification
2	336 (15.16%)	Security Cleared
3	263 (11.86%)	MCSE
4	231 (10.42%)	SC Cleared
5	118 (5.323%)	Cisco Certification
6	96 (4.330%)	MCITP
6	96 (4.330%)	CCNA
7	83 (3.744%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	80 (3.608%)	MCP
9	79 (3.563%)	DV Cleared
10	73 (3.293%)	Degree
11	69 (3.112%)	Citrix Certification
12	60 (2.706%)	MCSA
13	55 (2.481%)	CCA
14	41 (1.849%)	MCTS
15	36 (1.624%)	CCNP
16	21 (0.947%)	CCEA
17	16 (0.722%)	MCDST
18	14 (0.631%)	MCSD
19	11 (0.496%)	ITIL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	94 (4.240%)	SLA
2	37 (1.669%)	QA
3	15 (0.677%)	ISO 9001
4	12 (0.541%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	3 (0.135%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	3 (0.135%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.090%)	COBIT
6	2 (0.090%)	JSP 440
7	1 (0.045%)	TickIT
7	1 (0.045%)	BS7799

System Software
1	1202 (54.22%)	Active Directory
2	531 (23.95%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	274 (12.36%)	vSphere
4	253 (11.41%)	XenApp
5	172 (7.758%)	VMware ESX
6	160 (7.217%)	Hyper-V
7	89 (4.014%)	Microsoft App-V
7	89 (4.014%)	VMware ESXi
8	87 (3.924%)	XenDesktop
9	52 (2.346%)	Citrix Presentation Server
10	49 (2.210%)	Terminal Services
11	48 (2.165%)	XenServer
12	32 (1.443%)	ISA Server
13	21 (0.947%)	VMware Workstation
14	19 (0.857%)	NFS
15	18 (0.812%)	Terminal Server
15	18 (0.812%)	Oracle RAC
16	17 (0.767%)	UAG
17	16 (0.722%)	VMware Server
18	15 (0.677%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	300 (13.53%)	SCCM
2	166 (7.488%)	SCOM
3	94 (4.240%)	Backup Exec
4	90 (4.060%)	WSUS
5	64 (2.887%)	NetBackup
6	57 (2.571%)	Tivoli
7	47 (2.120%)	OpenView Configuration Management
7	47 (2.120%)	HP SIM
8	39 (1.759%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
9	36 (1.624%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
10	35 (1.579%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	27 (1.218%)	HP Quality Center
12	23 (1.037%)	McAfee ePO
13	21 (0.947%)	HP Data Protector
14	18 (0.812%)	MOM
15	16 (0.722%)	Nagios
15	16 (0.722%)	Legato
16	15 (0.677%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
17	14 (0.631%)	SCVMM
18	13 (0.586%)	Puppet

Vendors
1	1034 (46.64%)	Microsoft
2	921 (41.54%)	VMware
3	631 (28.46%)	Citrix
4	431 (19.44%)	HP
5	311 (14.03%)	Cisco
6	212 (9.562%)	Oracle
7	140 (6.315%)	Symantec
8	124 (5.593%)	NetApp
9	121 (5.458%)	Dell
10	117 (5.277%)	IBM
11	103 (4.646%)	EMC
12	101 (4.556%)	Red Hat
13	62 (2.797%)	McAfee
14	59 (2.661%)	Altiris
15	49 (2.210%)	Brocade
16	47 (2.120%)	Veritas
17	45 (2.030%)	Lotus
17	45 (2.030%)	Apple
17	45 (2.030%)	Sophos
18	42 (1.894%)	AppSense

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