Essex Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	37
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	47	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	10.59 %
Daily rates quoted	17	7
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£226
Average daily rate	£261	£236
% change on same period last year	+10.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£247
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.25	£14.50
Average hourly rate	£15.13	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.04	£21.42
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Operating Systems Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	188	255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.256 %
Daily rates quoted	66	72
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£280
Average daily rate	£264	£298
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.88	£27.76
Average hourly rate	£23.97	£28.15
% change on same period last year	-14.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.06	£28.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.90	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Windows Server 2003 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 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Essex region.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Chelmsford	+6	8	£300	+4.65 %
Brentwood	-	3	£415	-
Witham	-	3	£158	-
Basildon	-5	2	-	-
Colchester	-	1	-	-

Windows Server 2003 East of England

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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.

1 103 (100.00 %) Windows 2 45 (43.69 %) Windows XP 3 35 (33.98 %) Microsoft 3 35 (33.98 %) Active Directory 4 33 (32.04 %) Microsoft Certification 4 33 (32.04 %) MS Exchange 5 27 (26.21 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 24 (23.30 %) DHCP 6 24 (23.30 %) Windows 2000 7 22 (21.36 %) MS Office 8 21 (20.39 %) MCSE 8 21 (20.39 %) Cisco 9 20 (19.42 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 19 (18.45 %) DNS 11 17 (16.50 %) TCP/IP

12 16 (15.53 %) Firewall 13 14 (13.59 %) SQL 14 13 (12.62 %) .NET 14 13 (12.62 %) MS Excel 14 13 (12.62 %) Citrix 15 12 (11.65 %) MCP 15 12 (11.65 %) ASP.NET 16 11 (10.68 %) Internet 17 10 (9.709 %) SQL Server 17 10 (9.709 %) Windows NT 17 10 (9.709 %) SAN 17 10 (9.709 %) HP 18 9 (8.738 %) Novell 18 9 (8.738 %) VMware 19 8 (7.767 %) Dell

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 13 (12.62 %) .NET 2 12 (11.65 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (4.854 %) ASP 3 5 (4.854 %) WebServices 3 5 (4.854 %) HTML 4 3 (2.913 %) XML 5 2 (1.942 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 2 (1.942 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.971 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (0.971 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.971 %) XSLT 6 1 (0.971 %) XHTML 6 1 (0.971 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 33 (32.04 %) MS Exchange 2 20 (19.42 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (7.767 %) IIS 4 6 (5.825 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 3 (2.913 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 3 (2.913 %) SharePoint 5 3 (2.913 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 2 (1.942 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (1.942 %) Content Management Server 6 2 (1.942 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (1.942 %) IBM HTTP Server 7 1 (0.971 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 22 (21.36 %) MS Office 2 13 (12.62 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (1.942 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 24 (23.30 %) DHCP 2 19 (18.45 %) DNS 3 17 (16.50 %) TCP/IP 4 16 (15.53 %) Firewall 5 11 (10.68 %) Internet 6 10 (9.709 %) SAN 7 5 (4.854 %) LAN 8 4 (3.883 %) Wireless 8 4 (3.883 %) Cisco IOS 9 3 (2.913 %) VoIP 9 3 (2.913 %) WAN 9 3 (2.913 %) VPN 9 3 (2.913 %) 3G 10 2 (1.942 %) OSPF 10 2 (1.942 %) Intranet 10 2 (1.942 %) HTTPS 10 2 (1.942 %) HTTP 10 2 (1.942 %) Cisco PIX 10 2 (1.942 %) SNMP 11 1 (0.971 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (9.709 %) SQL Server 2 4 (3.883 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.942 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (1.942 %) DB2 3 2 (1.942 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (0.971 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (0.971 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.971 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (0.971 %) RDBMS 4 1 (0.971 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.971 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 1 (0.971 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 6 (5.825 %) Finance 2 3 (2.913 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (2.913 %) Back Office 3 2 (1.942 %) Education 3 2 (1.942 %) Health 4 1 (0.971 %) Legal 4 1 (0.971 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 26 (25.24 %) Server Engineer 2 25 (24.27 %) Support Engineer 3 21 (20.39 %) Server Support 4 18 (17.48 %) Server Support Engineer 5 13 (12.62 %) Network Engineer 6 12 (11.65 %) Analyst 7 7 (6.796 %) Developer 7 7 (6.796 %) Support Analyst 7 7 (6.796 %) Administrator 8 6 (5.825 %) 2nd Line Support 8 6 (5.825 %) Helpdesk Support 8 6 (5.825 %) Support Technician 9 5 (4.854 %) Architect 9 5 (4.854 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 5 (4.854 %) 3rd Line Support 9 5 (4.854 %) Network Support 9 5 (4.854 %) Systems Architect 10 4 (3.883 %) Wintel Engineer 10 4 (3.883 %) .NET Developer 10 4 (3.883 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.825 %) Clustering 2 4 (3.883 %) NHS 3 3 (2.913 %) Blackberry 4 2 (1.942 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.942 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (0.971 %) Replication 5 1 (0.971 %) Dutch Language 5 1 (0.971 %) Firmware 5 1 (0.971 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.971 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 103 (100.00 %) Windows 2 45 (43.69 %) Windows XP 3 27 (26.21 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 24 (23.30 %) Windows 2000 5 10 (9.709 %) Windows NT 6 8 (7.767 %) Linux 7 6 (5.825 %) Windows Server 2008 8 3 (2.913 %) UNIX 9 2 (1.942 %) HPUX 9 2 (1.942 %) NetWare 9 2 (1.942 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (5.825 %) ITIL 2 4 (3.883 %) UML 3 3 (2.913 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (2.913 %) System Testing 3 3 (2.913 %) Performance Management 4 2 (1.942 %) Change Management 4 2 (1.942 %) Time Management 4 2 (1.942 %) Migration 4 2 (1.942 %) Data Management 4 2 (1.942 %) Content Management 5 1 (0.971 %) Problem Management 5 1 (0.971 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (0.971 %) Validation 5 1 (0.971 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (13.59 %) SQL 2 5 (4.854 %) C# 3 4 (3.883 %) JavaScript 3 4 (3.883 %) VB 4 1 (0.971 %) VB6 4 1 (0.971 %) C	Qualifications 1 33 (32.04 %) Microsoft Certification 2 21 (20.39 %) MCSE 3 12 (11.65 %) MCP 4 4 (3.883 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (3.883 %) MCSA 5 3 (2.913 %) CCNP 6 1 (0.971 %) CCNA 6 1 (0.971 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (0.971 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (0.971 %) Degree
System Software 1 35 (33.98 %) Active Directory 2 7 (6.796 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 5 (4.854 %) NetBackup 4 4 (3.883 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (2.913 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (1.942 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.971 %) Xen 7 1 (0.971 %) MetaFrame 7 1 (0.971 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 6 (5.825 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.913 %) Unicenter 3 1 (0.971 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.971 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 35 (33.98 %) Microsoft 2 21 (20.39 %) Cisco 3 13 (12.62 %) Citrix 4 10 (9.709 %) HP 5 9 (8.738 %) Novell 5 9 (8.738 %) VMware 6 8 (7.767 %) Dell 7 6 (5.825 %) Compaq 8 5 (4.854 %) IBM 9 4 (3.883 %) Oracle 10 2 (1.942 %) Hyperion 11 1 (0.971 %) NetApp 11 1 (0.971 %) Intel 11 1 (0.971 %) CA 11 1 (0.971 %) telerik 11 1 (0.971 %) Altiris 11 1 (0.971 %) LANDesk 11 1 (0.971 %) VERITAS 11 1 (0.971 %) Remedy 11 1 (0.971 %) McAfee Security