The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 17 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 Halifax 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.724% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £138 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10 6 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 8.621% 2.469% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
Average daily rate £138 £348 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.28% -22.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows Server 2008
West Yorkshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (50.00%) Back Office
3 2 (50.00%) Xen
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (50.00%) NFS
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) ARCserve
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (50.00%) NAS
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) BPR
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) NFS
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) Xen
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) ARCserve
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (25.00%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat