The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 39 - 43
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.333% - 0.635%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.010% - 2.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £178
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £213 £273
% change year-on-year
+52.94% -22.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
99 84 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 33.00% 31.11% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 55
Average daily rate £425 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.59% -4.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £368 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £13.50 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £43.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Windows 2000
South East

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Kent Windows 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Kent region.

Kent Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Kent region.

Kent Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis