The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Glasgow region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Rank 47 50 55
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 30 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.128% 1.274% 0.582%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.70% 6.452% 2.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 1
Average daily rate £354 £135 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+162.03% -65.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.40%
All Operating Systems
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
219 155 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 22.84% 19.75% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 46 59
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £105 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £390 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £26.00 £107.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15% -75.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Server 2003
Scotland

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Glasgow Windows Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 22 May 2013.

Glasgow Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Windows Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 43 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (76.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
4 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
4 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
5 14 (32.56%) Windows XP
6 13 (30.23%) VMware
7 12 (27.91%) Active Directory
8 11 (25.58%) SAN
8 11 (25.58%) SQL
9 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
9 9 (20.93%) MS Exchange
10 8 (18.60%) ITIL
10 8 (18.60%) Java
10 8 (18.60%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (18.60%) McAfee
11 7 (16.28%) SQL Server 2000
11 7 (16.28%) Clustering
11 7 (16.28%) HP
11 7 (16.28%) Citrix
11 7 (16.28%) SCCM
12 6 (13.95%) Lumension
12 6 (13.95%) IBM
12 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (13.95%) DNS
12 6 (13.95%) .NET
12 6 (13.95%) OpenView Configuration Management
13 5 (11.63%) Internet
13 5 (11.63%) Change Management
13 5 (11.63%) Migration

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 (13.95%) .NET
2 2 (4.651%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.651%) XML
3 1 (2.326%) HTML
3 1 (2.326%) ASP
3 1 (2.326%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.326%) Java EE
3 1 (2.326%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) MS Exchange
2 5 (11.63%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (9.302%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.977%) Apache
4 3 (6.977%) MS Project Server
4 3 (6.977%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (4.651%) Documentum
5 2 (4.651%) Lotus Domino
5 2 (4.651%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.326%) IIS
6 1 (2.326%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.977%) MS Project
3 1 (2.326%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.326%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) SAN
2 6 (13.95%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) Internet
3 5 (11.63%) DHCP
4 3 (6.977%) WAN
5 2 (4.651%) NAS
5 2 (4.651%) SNMP
5 2 (4.651%) LAN
5 2 (4.651%) Firewall
5 2 (4.651%) Intranet
6 1 (2.326%) Extranet
6 1 (2.326%) BGP
6 1 (2.326%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.326%) MPLS
6 1 (2.326%) Wireless
6 1 (2.326%) LDAP
6 1 (2.326%) ADSL
6 1 (2.326%) WLAN
6 1 (2.326%) VPN
6 1 (2.326%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (18.60%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (16.28%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (9.302%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.326%) MS Access
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.326%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.977%) TestDirector
2 1 (2.326%) MSI
2 1 (2.326%) InstallShield
2 1 (2.326%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.326%) WinRunner
2 1 (2.326%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (2.326%) StarTeam
General
1 1 (2.326%) Finance
1 1 (2.326%) Back Office
1 1 (2.326%) Banking
1 1 (2.326%) Retail
1 1 (2.326%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) Server Engineer
2 4 (9.302%) Security Engineer
2 4 (9.302%) Developer
2 4 (9.302%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (6.977%) Project Planner
3 3 (6.977%) Analyst
4 2 (4.651%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Information Security Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Designer
4 2 (4.651%) Wintel Support
4 2 (4.651%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Documentum Developer
4 2 (4.651%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (4.651%) Test Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) SQL Developer
4 2 (4.651%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Server Support
4 2 (4.651%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.326%) Architect
5 1 (2.326%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Clustering
2 3 (6.977%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.977%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.651%) PDA
4 1 (2.326%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.326%) PKI
4 1 (2.326%) EPoS
4 1 (2.326%) EMV
4 1 (2.326%) NHS
4 1 (2.326%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.326%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (76.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (32.56%) Windows XP
4 5 (11.63%) Linux
5 4 (9.302%) Solaris
6 3 (6.977%) AIX
6 3 (6.977%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.651%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.326%) Windows NT
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.326%) UNIX
8 1 (2.326%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.326%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) ITIL
2 5 (11.63%) Change Management
2 5 (11.63%) Migration
2 5 (11.63%) Security Architecture
3 4 (9.302%) Performance Management
3 4 (9.302%) Release Management
4 3 (6.977%) Workflow
4 3 (6.977%) Software Testing
4 3 (6.977%) Earned Value Management
4 3 (6.977%) Test Scripting
4 3 (6.977%) Load Balancing
4 3 (6.977%) Incident Management
4 3 (6.977%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (4.651%) Network Management
5 2 (4.651%) ITIL V3
5 2 (4.651%) Service Management
5 2 (4.651%) Information Security
6 1 (2.326%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.326%) Project Management
6 1 (2.326%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) SQL
2 8 (18.60%) Java
3 3 (6.977%) VBScript
3 3 (6.977%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.651%) Bourne shell
4 2 (4.651%) VB
4 2 (4.651%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.651%) Perl
4 2 (4.651%) Korn
5 1 (2.326%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.977%) MCTS
5 2 (4.651%) BC Cleared
5 2 (4.651%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.651%) MCP
5 2 (4.651%) MCSA
6 1 (2.326%) MCSE
6 1 (2.326%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.977%) SLA
2 1 (2.326%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.302%) Hyper-V
3 4 (9.302%) VMware ESX
4 3 (6.977%) vSphere
4 3 (6.977%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (4.651%) Terminal Server
6 1 (2.326%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.326%) MetaFrame
6 1 (2.326%) XenApp
6 1 (2.326%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (2.326%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) SCCM
2 6 (13.95%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 4 (9.302%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (6.977%) Netcool
4 3 (6.977%) SCOM
5 2 (4.651%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (4.651%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (4.651%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.326%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (2.326%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (2.326%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (2.326%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.326%) HP UCMDB
6 1 (2.326%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.23%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) McAfee
4 7 (16.28%) HP
4 7 (16.28%) Citrix
5 6 (13.95%) Lumension
5 6 (13.95%) IBM
6 5 (11.63%) Cisco
7 4 (9.302%) Veritas
7 4 (9.302%) Symantec
8 3 (6.977%) EMC
9 2 (4.651%) Lotus
9 2 (4.651%) Brocade
10 1 (2.326%) TIBCO
10 1 (2.326%) Oracle
10 1 (2.326%) Compaq
10 1 (2.326%) Borland
10 1 (2.326%) NetApp
10 1 (2.326%) SonicWALL
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The ideal candidate will have experience in Active Directory, Exchange and Blackberry servers in addition to Windows 2003, XP and 7, as well as virtualisation experience through VMware.
Net Talent
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Any knowledge or experience of SAN technologies, HP / Compaq server hardware, Citrix Presentation Server 4, XenApp and SQL Server will be advantageous and you will ideally have some...
Head Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013