Essex Windows Server 2008 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 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 2008 over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Location Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Leeds London Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Romford Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.531 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£288
% change on same period last year	+27.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.36	£34.44
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Operating Systems Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	196	260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.311 %	0.277 %
Daily rates quoted	70	95
Average minimum daily rate	£217	£230
Average daily rate	£224	£245
% change on same period last year	-8.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£231	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£320
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.28	£25.19
Average hourly rate	£23.03	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-10.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.78	£26.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.95	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Windows Server 2008 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 2008
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Essex region.

Windows Server 2008
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008.

1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 5 (62.50 %) SQL 2 5 (62.50 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (62.50 %) WebServices 2 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Clustering 4 1 (12.50 %) WatchGuard 4 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 1 5 (62.50 %) WebServices	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Architect 1 5 (62.50 %) Systems Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) WatchGuard