Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 19 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 England region.

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank593540
Rank change year-on-year
Down-24Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads120613722714
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England2.691 %3.754 %3.536 %
As % of the Operating Systems category14.93 %20.91 %17.98 %
Daily rates quoted423354654
Average daily rate£325£315£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.170 %-3.070 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£191£170£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£465£413£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£311£305
% change year-on-year
-3.610 %+2.040 %
Hourly rates quoted236230558
Average hourly rate£15.50£21.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.19 %+5.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.50£11.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£32.05£33.10£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.75£20.80£20.00
% change year-on-year
-29.06 %+3.970 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8078656215095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England18.02 %17.95 %19.67 %
Daily rates quoted353519934013
Average daily rate£375£332£376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.95 %-11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£185£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted9259242546
Average hourly rate£16.00£18.50£18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.51 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.47£37.02£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Windows Server 2003 UKWindows Server 2003
UK

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 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
LondonDown-41535£350+13.36 %
South EastDown-11293£325+0.15 %
South WestDown-999£300-6.97 %
North WestUp+1378£243+61.66 %
YorkshireNo change060£285+11.76 %
East of EnglandDown-1154£295-1.66 %
West MidlandsDown-540£265-
East MidlandsDown-1636£310+11.71 %
North EastDown-317--
MidlandsUp+64£331+20.45 %
Windows Server 2003 UKWindows Server 2003
UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

12281 (100.00 %)Windows
2973 (42.66 %)Active Directory
3844 (37.00 %)Microsoft
4654 (28.67 %)Windows Server 2008
5617 (27.05 %)Windows XP
6544 (23.85 %)SQL Server
7515 (22.58 %)VMware
8502 (22.01 %)MS Exchange
9419 (18.37 %)Security Cleared
10400 (17.54 %)SQL
11389 (17.05 %)Citrix
12337 (14.77 %)Windows 2000
13307 (13.46 %)Microsoft Certification
14303 (13.28 %)DNS
14303 (13.28 %)Linux
14303 (13.28 %)MS Office
15285 (12.49 %)Exchange Server 2003
16279 (12.23 %)Windows 2000 Server
17275 (12.06 %)Oracle
18273 (11.97 %)HP
19265 (11.62 %)SC Cleared
20260 (11.40 %)MCSE
21258 (11.31 %)Cisco
22256 (11.22 %)SQL Server 2005
23255 (11.18 %)SAN
23255 (11.18 %)ITIL
24254 (11.14 %)IIS
25253 (11.09 %).NET
26252 (11.05 %)Finance
27250 (10.96 %)VMware Infrastructure

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1253 (11.09 %).NET
2100 (4.384 %)XML
373 (3.200 %)ASP.NET
472 (3.157 %)WebSphere
554 (2.367 %)Web Services
650 (2.192 %)HTML
739 (1.710 %)Middleware
837 (1.622 %)CSS
936 (1.578 %)J2EE
1030 (1.315 %)ASP
1129 (1.271 %)WMI
1226 (1.140 %).NET Framework
1324 (1.052 %)AJAX
1421 (0.921 %)XSLT
1517 (0.745 %)Application Packaging
1613 (0.570 %)WCF
1712 (0.526 %)XHTML
1811 (0.482 %)JMS
1910 (0.438 %)XSD
1910 (0.438 %)SOAP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1502 (22.01 %)MS Exchange
2285 (12.49 %)Exchange Server 2003
3254 (11.14 %)IIS
4214 (9.382 %)Exchange Server 2007
5152 (6.664 %)SharePoint
668 (2.981 %)Apache
753 (2.324 %)Exchange Server 2000
852 (2.280 %)Lotus Notes
943 (1.885 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1037 (1.622 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1133 (1.447 %)Lotus Domino
1224 (1.052 %)Tomcat
1322 (0.964 %)WebLogic
1419 (0.833 %)WebSphere Application Server
1518 (0.789 %)BizTalk Server
1617 (0.745 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1716 (0.701 %)WebSphere MQ
1716 (0.701 %)Documentum
1815 (0.658 %)Confluence
1911 (0.482 %)Oracle Application Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1303 (13.28 %)MS Office
2209 (9.163 %)MS Excel
323 (1.008 %)MS Project
415 (0.658 %)MS Visio
511 (0.482 %)InfoPath
68 (0.351 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.132 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.088 %)AutoCAD
91 (0.044 %)Photoshop
91 (0.044 %)DeltaView
91 (0.044 %)GeoMedia
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
113 (0.570 %)SoftGrid
28 (0.351 %)Microsoft CRM
36 (0.263 %)Dynamics CRM
44 (0.175 %)Algo Collateral
44 (0.175 %)assyst
44 (0.175 %)Navision
44 (0.175 %)WebTrends
53 (0.132 %)Oracle Applications
53 (0.132 %)Summit
53 (0.132 %)Cognos Planning
53 (0.132 %)3000 Xtra
62 (0.088 %)GL Clearvision
62 (0.088 %)Dynamics GP
71 (0.044 %)SAP HR
71 (0.044 %)BusinessWorks
71 (0.044 %)Dynamics AX
71 (0.044 %)Academy Housing
71 (0.044 %)arcHouse
71 (0.044 %)SAP SRM
71 (0.044 %)Remedy ITSM
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1303 (13.28 %)DNS
2255 (11.18 %)SAN
3237 (10.39 %)TCP/IP
4199 (8.724 %)DHCP
4199 (8.724 %)Firewall
5150 (6.576 %)Internet
6138 (6.050 %)LAN
7116 (5.085 %)WAN
881 (3.551 %)VPN
946 (2.017 %)HTTP
1044 (1.929 %)NAS
1139 (1.710 %)Wireless
1237 (1.622 %)VoIP
1334 (1.491 %)Intranet
1334 (1.491 %)SMS
1433 (1.447 %)LDAP
1529 (1.271 %)VLAN
1529 (1.271 %)Network Security
1627 (1.184 %)SMTP
1726 (1.140 %)SSL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1544 (23.85 %)SQL Server
2256 (11.22 %)SQL Server 2005
3147 (6.445 %)SQL Server 2000
4104 (4.559 %)SQL Server 2008
561 (2.674 %)SQL Server Integration Services
646 (2.017 %)Oracle 8/8i
741 (1.797 %)DTS
834 (1.491 %)Datawarehouse
931 (1.359 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1028 (1.228 %)Oracle 10g
1126 (1.140 %)MySQL
1218 (0.789 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1218 (0.789 %)RDBMS
1316 (0.701 %)BusinessObjects
1415 (0.658 %)Crystal Reports
1514 (0.614 %)ETL
1613 (0.570 %)Data Mart
1712 (0.526 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1712 (0.526 %)Data Mining
1811 (0.482 %)Oracle 9i
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
162 (2.718 %)Visual Studio
233 (1.447 %)TestDirector
332 (1.403 %)JIRA
430 (1.315 %)Subversion
522 (0.964 %)Maven
620 (0.877 %)VSS/SourceSafe
715 (0.658 %)StarTeam
715 (0.658 %)Team Foundation Server
810 (0.438 %)InstallShield
99 (0.395 %)Oracle Forms
99 (0.395 %)Eclipse
108 (0.351 %)WinRunner
108 (0.351 %)QuickTest Pro
117 (0.307 %)NUnit
125 (0.219 %)CruiseControl
125 (0.219 %)Atlassian Bamboo
125 (0.219 %)TeamCity
134 (0.175 %)Visual Studio Team System
134 (0.175 %)Talend Open Studio
134 (0.175 %)LoadRunner
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1252 (11.05 %)Finance
2249 (10.92 %)Banking
3193 (8.461 %)Government
490 (3.946 %)Investment Banking
546 (2.017 %)Education
640 (1.754 %)Financial Institution
737 (1.622 %)Telecoms
835 (1.534 %)Health
925 (1.096 %)Law
1023 (1.008 %)Back Office
1119 (0.833 %)Manufacturing
1119 (0.833 %)Insurance
1119 (0.833 %)Retail
1217 (0.745 %)Legal
139 (0.395 %)Military
148 (0.351 %)Auditing
148 (0.351 %)Aerospace
157 (0.307 %)Construction
166 (0.263 %)Local Government
166 (0.263 %)Pensions
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1420 (18.41 %)Analyst
2221 (9.689 %)Support Engineer
3188 (8.242 %)Administrator
4184 (8.067 %)Support Analyst
5127 (5.568 %)Consultant
6115 (5.042 %)3rd Line Support
7108 (4.735 %)Developer
8106 (4.647 %)Server Engineer
9102 (4.472 %)Desktop Support
1098 (4.296 %)Architect
1191 (3.989 %)Systems Administrator
1284 (3.683 %)DBA
1380 (3.507 %)Server Support
1478 (3.420 %)Helpdesk Analyst
1567 (2.937 %)SQL DBA
1666 (2.893 %)Systems Engineer
1765 (2.850 %)2nd Line Support
1856 (2.455 %)Technical Support
1953 (2.324 %)1st Line Support
2050 (2.192 %)Service Desk Analyst
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1189 (8.286 %)Clustering
2114 (4.998 %)Blackberry
365 (2.850 %)Replication
437 (1.622 %)NHS
437 (1.622 %)PKI
535 (1.534 %)Client/Server
634 (1.491 %)Thin Client
634 (1.491 %)Fat Client
725 (1.096 %)PDA
821 (0.921 %)Derivative
919 (0.833 %)Fixed Income
1015 (0.658 %)Management Information System
1110 (0.438 %)HACMP
129 (0.395 %)French Language
138 (0.351 %)Smartcard
147 (0.307 %)CMDB
156 (0.263 %)Open Source
156 (0.263 %)Computer Science
156 (0.263 %)AS400
156 (0.263 %)Mainframe
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12281 (100.00 %)Windows
2654 (28.67 %)Windows Server 2008
3617 (27.05 %)Windows XP
4337 (14.77 %)Windows 2000
5303 (13.28 %)Linux
6279 (12.23 %)Windows 2000 Server
7227 (9.952 %)Windows Vista
8195 (8.549 %)UNIX
9157 (6.883 %)Solaris
10111 (4.866 %)Red Hat Linux
1167 (2.937 %)Windows NT
1254 (2.367 %)AIX
1347 (2.060 %)Windows 7
1439 (1.710 %)HPUX
1537 (1.622 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1616 (0.701 %)NetWare
1711 (0.482 %)VMS
1711 (0.482 %)SUSE
1711 (0.482 %)Debian
1711 (0.482 %)Windows Mobile
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1255 (11.18 %)ITIL
2170 (7.453 %)Migration
364 (2.806 %)Configuration Management
456 (2.455 %)Project Management
547 (2.060 %)PRINCE2
643 (1.885 %)Load Balancing
742 (1.841 %)Release Management
837 (1.622 %)Change Management
936 (1.578 %)Disaster Recovery
936 (1.578 %)SOA
1035 (1.534 %)Service Delivery
1134 (1.491 %)Workflow
1134 (1.491 %)Test Scripting
1230 (1.315 %)Service Management
1328 (1.228 %)Incident Management
1427 (1.184 %)Continuous Integration
1524 (1.052 %)CRM
1623 (1.008 %)Web Development
1623 (1.008 %)Agile Software Development
1720 (0.877 %)Scrum
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1400 (17.54 %)SQL
2139 (6.094 %)C#
3132 (5.787 %)C
499 (4.340 %)VBScript
499 (4.340 %)VB
595 (4.165 %)Java
666 (2.893 %)PowerShell
759 (2.587 %)Perl
854 (2.367 %)VB.NET
953 (2.324 %)T-SQL
1047 (2.060 %)JavaScript
1143 (1.885 %)C++
1236 (1.578 %)Shell Script
1326 (1.140 %)PL/SQL
1421 (0.921 %)Korn
1519 (0.833 %)PHP
1618 (0.789 %)Bash shell
1714 (0.614 %)Jython
1812 (0.526 %)Python
1910 (0.438 %)VB6
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1419 (18.37 %)Security Cleared
2307 (13.46 %)Microsoft Certification
3265 (11.62 %)SC Cleared
4260 (11.40 %)MCSE
595 (4.165 %)DV Cleared
672 (3.157 %)MCP
765 (2.850 %)Cisco Certification
856 (2.455 %)CCNA
856 (2.455 %)Degree
953 (2.324 %)MCSA
1034 (1.491 %)MCITP
1124 (1.052 %)ITIL Certification
1223 (1.008 %)Citrix Certification
1223 (1.008 %)MCTS
1321 (0.921 %)MCDST
1321 (0.921 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1418 (0.789 %)CTC Cleared
1517 (0.745 %)CISSP
1616 (0.701 %)CCA
1715 (0.658 %)BC Cleared
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
138 (1.666 %)SLA
215 (0.658 %)QA
37 (0.307 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
46 (0.263 %)ISO27001
55 (0.219 %)ISO9001
63 (0.132 %)ISO17799
63 (0.132 %)BS7799
63 (0.132 %)WAI
72 (0.088 %)PCI DSS
72 (0.088 %)PAS 78
81 (0.044 %)JSP 440
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1973 (42.66 %)Active Directory
2250 (10.96 %)VMware Infrastructure
3111 (4.866 %)VMware ESX
464 (2.806 %)XenApp
545 (1.973 %)Citrix Presentation Server
643 (1.885 %)Terminal Services
739 (1.710 %)Hyper-V
831 (1.359 %)ISA Server
929 (1.271 %)Oracle RAC
1025 (1.096 %)Terminal Server
1124 (1.052 %)vSphere
1216 (0.701 %)VMware Workstation
1216 (0.701 %)MetaFrame
1314 (0.614 %)XenServer
1411 (0.482 %)NFS
1510 (0.438 %)VMware Server
1510 (0.438 %)Xen
169 (0.395 %)MSMQ
169 (0.395 %)XenDesktop
178 (0.351 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
184 (3.683 %)SCCM
275 (3.288 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
364 (2.806 %)OpenView Configuration Management
458 (2.543 %)MSI
553 (2.324 %)NetBackup
553 (2.324 %)Backup Exec
553 (2.324 %)SCOM
640 (1.754 %)OpenView
734 (1.491 %)WSUS
832 (1.403 %)MOM
832 (1.403 %)Legato
926 (1.140 %)Tivoli
1022 (0.964 %)Norton AntiVirus
1119 (0.833 %)HP Quality Center
1215 (0.658 %)ARCserve
1215 (0.658 %)McAfee ePO
1314 (0.614 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1411 (0.482 %)AutoSys
1411 (0.482 %)EMC NetWorker
1510 (0.438 %)WhatsUp Gold
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1844 (37.00 %)Microsoft
2515 (22.58 %)VMware
3389 (17.05 %)Citrix
4275 (12.06 %)Oracle
5273 (11.97 %)HP
6258 (11.31 %)Cisco
7113 (4.954 %)IBM
8102 (4.472 %)Red Hat
966 (2.893 %)Symantec
1062 (2.718 %)Altiris
1160 (2.630 %)JBoss
1256 (2.455 %)McAfee
1256 (2.455 %)Dell
1353 (2.324 %)Lotus
1442 (1.841 %)EMC
1538 (1.666 %)NetApp
1637 (1.622 %)Remedy
1735 (1.534 %)Sun
1833 (1.447 %)CheckPoint
1931 (1.359 %)Veritas