The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 27 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.326% 1.681% 0.752%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 6.250% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £130 £335 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.19% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+9.33% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
40 32 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 18.60% 26.89% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 7
Average daily rate £335 £335 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +31.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +141.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £17.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.90 £43.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
Surrey

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Guildford Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Guildford Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Guildford region.

Guildford Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
5 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (30.00%) MS Office
5 3 (30.00%) Clustering
5 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 3 (30.00%) DFS Replication
6 2 (20.00%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (20.00%) CommVault
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) ISA Server
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) DNS
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
7 1 (10.00%) Back Office
7 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) Citrix
7 1 (10.00%) XenApp

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (30.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Server Support
1 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Server Support Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Server Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (20.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) CommVault
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix