Essex Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Ayrshire Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Bexley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	32
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	10	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	4.785 %	14.97 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£173	£350
Average daily rate	£173	£375
% change on same period last year	-53.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£174	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£290
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.74	£17.75
Average hourly rate	£28.31	£18.46
% change on same period last year	+53.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.89	£19.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£19.64
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Operating Systems Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	209	187
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	82	59
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£367
Average daily rate	£267	£391
% change on same period last year	-31.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.35	£22.02
Average hourly rate	£29.13	£22.54
% change on same period last year	+29.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.91	£23.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows 2000 East of England

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 Essex 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 Essex region.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Essex region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Colchester	-7	4	-	-
Thurrock	-	1	£300	-
Basildon	+10	1	-	-

Windows 2000 East of England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 33 (100.00 %) Windows 2 15 (45.45 %) Microsoft 3 13 (39.39 %) Active Directory 3 13 (39.39 %) Microsoft Certification 4 12 (36.36 %) MS Office 5 10 (30.30 %) MCSE 6 9 (27.27 %) Windows NT 6 9 (27.27 %) UNIX 6 9 (27.27 %) HP 6 9 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 8 (24.24 %) XML 7 8 (24.24 %) Linux 8 7 (21.21 %) LAN 8 7 (21.21 %) WLAN 8 7 (21.21 %) Perl

8 7 (21.21 %) Shell Script 8 7 (21.21 %) Tivoli 8 7 (21.21 %) Tivoli NetView 8 7 (21.21 %) TACACS 8 7 (21.21 %) CiscoWorks 8 7 (21.21 %) OpenView 8 7 (21.21 %) Cisco 8 7 (21.21 %) Wireless 8 7 (21.21 %) NNM 9 6 (18.18 %) IBM 9 6 (18.18 %) CCNA 9 6 (18.18 %) Nortel 9 6 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 9 6 (18.18 %) WAN 9 6 (18.18 %) SNMP

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 8 (24.24 %) XML 2 3 (9.091 %) Middleware 3 1 (3.030 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (3.030 %) XSLT 3 1 (3.030 %) XHTML 3 1 (3.030 %) .NET 3 1 (3.030 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (12.12 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (6.061 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 12 (36.36 %) MS Office 2 4 (12.12 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.030 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 7 (21.21 %) LAN 1 7 (21.21 %) WLAN 1 7 (21.21 %) TACACS 1 7 (21.21 %) Wireless 2 6 (18.18 %) WAN 2 6 (18.18 %) SNMP 3 4 (12.12 %) SAN 3 4 (12.12 %) Internet 4 1 (3.030 %) VLAN 4 1 (3.030 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (3.030 %) VPN 4 1 (3.030 %) DNS 4 1 (3.030 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 3 (9.091 %) Back Office 2 2 (6.061 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (3.030 %) Finance 3 1 (3.030 %) Health 3 1 (3.030 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 6 (18.18 %) Desktop Engineer 2 5 (15.15 %) Network Engineer 2 5 (15.15 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (15.15 %) 3rd Line Support 3 4 (12.12 %) Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (9.091 %) Network Specialist 5 2 (6.061 %) Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Server Support 5 2 (6.061 %) Systems Support 5 2 (6.061 %) Support Technician 5 2 (6.061 %) Blackberry Support 5 2 (6.061 %) BlackBerry Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Field Service Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) NHS 1 2 (6.061 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.030 %) Replication 2 1 (3.030 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.030 %) Firmware 2 1 (3.030 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 33 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (27.27 %) UNIX 2 9 (27.27 %) Windows NT 3 8 (24.24 %) Linux 4 6 (18.18 %) Solaris 5 3 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (6.061 %) HPUX 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Change Management 2 1 (3.030 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 7 (21.21 %) Perl 1 7 (21.21 %) Shell Script 2 2 (6.061 %) SQL 3 1 (3.030 %) VB 3 1 (3.030 %) C 3 1 (3.030 %) C# 3 1 (3.030 %) JavaScript 3 1 (3.030 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 13 (39.39 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (30.30 %) MCSE 3 6 (18.18 %) CCNA 3 6 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (12.12 %) MCP 5 3 (9.091 %) MCDST 5 3 (9.091 %) ECDL 6 1 (3.030 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (3.030 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (39.39 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.030 %) ISA Server 2 1 (3.030 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (3.030 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (3.030 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 9 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (21.21 %) NNM 2 7 (21.21 %) OpenView 2 7 (21.21 %) CiscoWorks 2 7 (21.21 %) Tivoli 2 7 (21.21 %) Tivoli NetView 3 1 (3.030 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 15 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 9 (27.27 %) HP 3 7 (21.21 %) Cisco 4 6 (18.18 %) IBM 4 6 (18.18 %) Nortel 5 2 (6.061 %) Remedy 5 2 (6.061 %) VMware 5 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 6 1 (3.030 %) LANDesk 6 1 (3.030 %) Citrix 6 1 (3.030 %) NetApp 6 1 (3.030 %) Dell 6 1 (3.030 %) Intel