The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine 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 24 May 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 Erskine 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Rank 4 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 40 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 64.52% 3.448% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.92% 5.882% -
Number of daily rates quoted 38 1 0
Average daily rate £370 £420 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £321 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
52 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 83.87% 58.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 49 8 0
Average daily rate £370 £420 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Server 2003
Renfrewshire

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine Windows Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

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 Erskine region.

Erskine Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

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 Erskine region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Erskine Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 48 (100.00%) Windows
1 48 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (72.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (68.75%) Windows Server 2008
4 27 (56.25%) Windows XP
5 25 (52.08%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
7 13 (27.08%) TestDirector
7 13 (27.08%) Netcool
7 13 (27.08%) Clustering
8 12 (25.00%) AIX
8 12 (25.00%) Solaris
9 11 (22.92%) SAN
9 11 (22.92%) Veritas
9 11 (22.92%) HP Quality Center
9 11 (22.92%) Test Scripting
10 10 (20.83%) Tivoli
10 10 (20.83%) Linux
11 9 (18.75%) Borland
11 9 (18.75%) McAfee
11 9 (18.75%) Telecoms
11 9 (18.75%) StarTeam
11 9 (18.75%) Software Distribution
12 8 (16.67%) Security Architecture
12 8 (16.67%) Lumension
12 8 (16.67%) Citrix
12 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
12 8 (16.67%) DHCP
13 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
14 6 (12.50%) DNS

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 2 (4.167%) Ajax
1 2 (4.167%) XML
1 2 (4.167%) XSLT
1 2 (4.167%) .NET
1 2 (4.167%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 4 (8.333%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (4.167%) MS Exchange
2 2 (4.167%) Apache
2 2 (4.167%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (4.167%) MS Project
2 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) SAN
2 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 8 (16.67%) DHCP
3 6 (12.50%) DNS
3 6 (12.50%) NAS
4 2 (4.167%) Internet
5 1 (2.083%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 4 (8.333%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) TestDirector
2 9 (18.75%) StarTeam
3 4 (8.333%) WinRunner
3 4 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 9 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Tester
2 5 (10.42%) Test Engineer
3 3 (6.250%) Implementation Engineer
3 3 (6.250%) Security Engineer
3 3 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) Architect
5 1 (2.083%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (2.083%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.083%) Technical Tester
5 1 (2.083%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.083%) Administrator
5 1 (2.083%) Project Planner
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Clustering
2 5 (10.42%) SaaS
2 5 (10.42%) PDA
3 3 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (68.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 27 (56.25%) Windows XP
4 12 (25.00%) AIX
4 12 (25.00%) Solaris
5 10 (20.83%) Linux
6 5 (10.42%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Test Scripting
2 9 (18.75%) Software Distribution
3 8 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 6 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 5 (10.42%) Software Deployment
5 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (10.42%) Release Management
5 5 (10.42%) ERP
6 4 (8.333%) Capacity Management
6 4 (8.333%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.250%) Service Management
8 2 (4.167%) Change Management
8 2 (4.167%) Software Testing
8 2 (4.167%) Workflow
8 2 (4.167%) Load Balancing
8 2 (4.167%) Performance Management
8 2 (4.167%) Earned Value Management
9 1 (2.083%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
1 6 (12.50%) Java
2 4 (8.333%) VBScript
2 4 (8.333%) Perl
2 4 (8.333%) Korn
2 4 (8.333%) Bourne shell
3 2 (4.167%) C#
3 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 48 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (72.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.250%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.167%) MCTS
5 1 (2.083%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.333%) VMware ESX
3 2 (4.167%) vSphere
4 1 (2.083%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 13 (27.08%) Netcool
3 11 (22.92%) HP Quality Center
4 10 (20.83%) Tivoli
5 6 (12.50%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (6.250%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (2.083%) OpenView
7 1 (2.083%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Veritas
3 9 (18.75%) Borland
3 9 (18.75%) McAfee
4 8 (16.67%) Lumension
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
5 6 (12.50%) VMware
6 4 (8.333%) IBM
6 4 (8.333%) HP
7 1 (2.083%) Brocade
7 1 (2.083%) EMC
Erskine, Renfrewshire
Good understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Architecture, Windows XP/7 Desktop and supporting products " Good understanding of Enterprise Security Architecture... " Scripting experience (Bourne/...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £500.00 - £600.00 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013