Glasgow Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Glasgow 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	44	30
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	15	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	9.259 %	12.25 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£232
Average daily rate	£250	£241
% change on same period last year	+3.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£290
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£11.37
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£12.25
% change on same period last year	+79.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£13.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£19.64
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Operating Systems Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	162	351
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.355 %
Daily rates quoted	36	115
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£316
Average daily rate	£312	£331
% change on same period last year	-5.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.69	£14.92
Average hourly rate	£22.90	£16.47
% change on same period last year	+38.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£18.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows 2000 Scotland

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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

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 Glasgow region.

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 28 (96.55 %) Windows 2 12 (41.38 %) Active Directory 3 9 (31.03 %) MS Office 4 7 (24.14 %) SQL Server 4 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft 5 6 (20.69 %) MS Excel 6 5 (17.24 %) Citrix 6 5 (17.24 %) VERITAS 6 5 (17.24 %) HP 6 5 (17.24 %) Clustering 6 5 (17.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 4 (13.79 %) Backup Exec 7 4 (13.79 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (13.79 %) Windows XP 7 4 (13.79 %) SAN

7 4 (13.79 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2000 8 3 (10.34 %) MOM 8 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 8 3 (10.34 %) Lotus 8 3 (10.34 %) Disaster Recovery 8 3 (10.34 %) Windows NT 8 3 (10.34 %) SMS 8 3 (10.34 %) IBM 8 3 (10.34 %) ITIL 8 3 (10.34 %) Lotus Notes 8 3 (10.34 %) MCSE 8 3 (10.34 %) WSUS 9 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 2 (6.897 %) Movex

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 2 (6.897 %) .NET 1 2 (6.897 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 5 (17.24 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (10.34 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (6.897 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.448 %) IIS 4 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (3.448 %) Apache
Applications 1 9 (31.03 %) MS Office 2 6 (20.69 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.79 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (13.79 %) SAN 2 3 (10.34 %) SMS 3 2 (6.897 %) VoIP 3 2 (6.897 %) DHCP 3 2 (6.897 %) DNS 3 2 (6.897 %) LAN 4 1 (3.448 %) Intranet 4 1 (3.448 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (24.14 %) SQL Server 2 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 2 (6.897 %) Law 2 1 (3.448 %) Legal 2 1 (3.448 %) Finance 2 1 (3.448 %) Health	Job Titles 1 11 (37.93 %) Analyst 2 6 (20.69 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (10.34 %) Administrator 3 3 (10.34 %) Server Analyst 4 2 (6.897 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (6.897 %) Windows Administrator 4 2 (6.897 %) PC Support 4 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Analyst 4 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (6.897 %) Junior 4 2 (6.897 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Server Support 5 1 (3.448 %) Support Technician 5 1 (3.448 %) IT Manager 5 1 (3.448 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (3.448 %) Consultant 5 1 (3.448 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (3.448 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (17.24 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.448 %) Fat Client 2 1 (3.448 %) NHS 2 1 (3.448 %) Thin Client 2 1 (3.448 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 28 (96.55 %) Windows 2 4 (13.79 %) Windows XP 2 4 (13.79 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (10.34 %) Windows NT 4 2 (6.897 %) UNIX 4 2 (6.897 %) Solaris 5 1 (3.448 %) VMS 5 1 (3.448 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.34 %) Disaster Recovery 1 3 (10.34 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.897 %) ERP 3 1 (3.448 %) Incident Management 3 1 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (3.448 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (10.34 %) MCSE 1 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) MCSA 2 1 (3.448 %) HND	System Software 1 12 (41.38 %) Active Directory 2 4 (13.79 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (6.897 %) NetBackup 4 1 (3.448 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 3 (10.34 %) MOM 1 3 (10.34 %) WSUS 2 1 (3.448 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft 2 5 (17.24 %) HP 2 5 (17.24 %) VERITAS 2 5 (17.24 %) Citrix 3 3 (10.34 %) Lotus 3 3 (10.34 %) IBM 4 2 (6.897 %) Intel 5 1 (3.448 %) Compaq 5 1 (3.448 %) Sun 5 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.448 %) Cisco 5 1 (3.448 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.448 %) VMware 5 1 (3.448 %) Fujitsu Siemens 5 1 (3.448 %) Siemens 5 1 (3.448 %) StorageTek