Glasgow Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 10 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 Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester 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 Havant 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 Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe 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 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 West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	30
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	23	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	13.53 %	17.06 %
Daily rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum daily rate	£229	£250
Average daily rate	£251	£266
% change on same period last year	-5.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£317
% change on same period last year	-1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£29.00
Average hourly rate	-	£29.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.98	£21.07
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Operating Systems Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	170	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.302 %
Daily rates quoted	60	108
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£318
Average daily rate	£280	£337
% change on same period last year	-16.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.42	£17.13
Average hourly rate	£15.95	£17.68
% change on same period last year	-9.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.48	£18.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows Server 2003 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 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 10 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 Glasgow region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 52 (100.00 %) Windows 2 26 (50.00 %) Active Directory 3 22 (42.31 %) Microsoft 4 20 (38.46 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 15 (28.85 %) MS Exchange 6 14 (26.92 %) Windows XP 7 13 (25.00 %) SQL Server 8 12 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 9 10 (19.23 %) MOM 9 10 (19.23 %) MCSE 9 10 (19.23 %) VMware 9 10 (19.23 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 9 (17.31 %) Windows 2000 10 9 (17.31 %) SQL 10 9 (17.31 %) SAN

10 9 (17.31 %) Cisco 11 8 (15.38 %) WAN 11 8 (15.38 %) Citrix 11 8 (15.38 %) HP 11 8 (15.38 %) VERITAS 11 8 (15.38 %) IIS 11 8 (15.38 %) LAN 11 8 (15.38 %) NetBackup 12 6 (11.54 %) Clustering 12 6 (11.54 %) Disaster Recovery 12 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2000 12 6 (11.54 %) MS Excel 12 6 (11.54 %) .NET 12 6 (11.54 %) XML 12 6 (11.54 %) TCP/IP

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (11.54 %) .NET 1 6 (11.54 %) XML 2 4 (7.692 %) WebServices 3 3 (5.769 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (1.923 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 15 (28.85 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (19.23 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (15.38 %) IIS 4 4 (7.692 %) BizTalk Server 4 4 (7.692 %) SharePoint 5 3 (5.769 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 2 (3.846 %) Umbraco 6 2 (3.846 %) CMS 6 2 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 2 (3.846 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.923 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 6 (11.54 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (17.31 %) SAN 2 8 (15.38 %) LAN 2 8 (15.38 %) WAN 3 6 (11.54 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (9.615 %) DNS 4 5 (9.615 %) SMS 5 2 (3.846 %) DHCP 6 1 (1.923 %) Firewall 6 1 (1.923 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (5.769 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.923 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 1 (1.923 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.923 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (3.846 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 2 (3.846 %) Health 1 2 (3.846 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.923 %) Finance 2 1 (1.923 %) Government
Job Titles 1 13 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 9 (17.31 %) Support Analyst 2 9 (17.31 %) Administrator 3 6 (11.54 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (7.692 %) Server Support 4 4 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (5.769 %) Support Technician 5 3 (5.769 %) Systems Administrator 5 3 (5.769 %) Developer 5 3 (5.769 %) Server Engineer 5 3 (5.769 %) Windows Administrator 6 2 (3.846 %) Server Analyst 6 2 (3.846 %) SharePoint Administrator 6 2 (3.846 %) Exchange Engineer 6 2 (3.846 %) Developer Analyst 6 2 (3.846 %) Server Administrator 6 2 (3.846 %) .NET Programmer 6 2 (3.846 %) Server Support Analyst 6 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (3.846 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (11.54 %) Clustering 2 2 (3.846 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.923 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.923 %) NHS 3 1 (1.923 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 52 (100.00 %) Windows 2 20 (38.46 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 14 (26.92 %) Windows XP 4 9 (17.31 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (5.769 %) UNIX 6 2 (3.846 %) Linux 6 2 (3.846 %) Windows NT 7 1 (1.923 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (1.923 %) Solaris 7 1 (1.923 %) VMS 7 1 (1.923 %) OpenVMS 7 1 (1.923 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (11.54 %) Disaster Recovery 2 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 2 4 (7.692 %) Service Management 3 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 3 3 (5.769 %) Project Management 3 3 (5.769 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (3.846 %) Internet Marketing 4 2 (3.846 %) Migration 5 1 (1.923 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.923 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.923 %) Project Planning 5 1 (1.923 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 9 (17.31 %) SQL 2 2 (3.846 %) C# 3 1 (1.923 %) VB 3 1 (1.923 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 12 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (19.23 %) MCSE 3 4 (7.692 %) MCSA 4 3 (5.769 %) HND 5 2 (3.846 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 2 (3.846 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (1.923 %) CNA 6 1 (1.923 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (1.923 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.923 %) SLA	System Software 1 26 (50.00 %) Active Directory 2 8 (15.38 %) NetBackup 3 5 (9.615 %) Backup Exec 4 3 (5.769 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 3 (5.769 %) VMware ESX 5 2 (3.846 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (3.846 %) Oracle RAC 6 1 (1.923 %) MetaFrame 6 1 (1.923 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 10 (19.23 %) MOM 2 4 (7.692 %) WSUS 3 1 (1.923 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 22 (42.31 %) Microsoft 2 10 (19.23 %) VMware 3 9 (17.31 %) Cisco 4 8 (15.38 %) HP 4 8 (15.38 %) Citrix 4 8 (15.38 %) VERITAS 5 5 (9.615 %) IBM 6 3 (5.769 %) Oracle 6 3 (5.769 %) Symantec 7 2 (3.846 %) Lotus 8 1 (1.923 %) Red Hat 8 1 (1.923 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (1.923 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.923 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (1.923 %) Business Objects 8 1 (1.923 %) Novell 8 1 (1.923 %) Intel