Leicestershire Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Leicestershire 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	12
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	15	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	25.86 %	38.32 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£80	-
Average daily rate	£85	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£90	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£303
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.83	£13.62
Average hourly rate	£14.25	£15.16
% change on same period last year	-6.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.67	£16.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.23	£20.87
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Operating Systems Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	58	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.117 %
Daily rates quoted	21	13
Average minimum daily rate	£216	£294
Average daily rate	£224	£311
% change on same period last year	-28.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£232	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.41	£13.28
Average hourly rate	£15.12	£14.57
% change on same period last year	+3.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.82	£15.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Windows Server 2003 East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

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 Leicestershire region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicester	-4	5	-	-
Kegworth	+2	5	-	-

Windows Server 2003 East Midlands

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 41 (100.00 %) Windows 2 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 3 17 (41.46 %) Windows XP 4 14 (34.15 %) Microsoft 5 10 (24.39 %) MS Exchange 6 9 (21.95 %) MS Office 6 9 (21.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 8 (19.51 %) Internet 7 8 (19.51 %) Lotus 7 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 7 8 (19.51 %) LAN 7 8 (19.51 %) WAN 7 8 (19.51 %) TCP/IP 7 8 (19.51 %) Windows 2000 7 8 (19.51 %) Lotus Notes

8 7 (17.07 %) VB 9 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 9 6 (14.63 %) Oracle 10g 9 6 (14.63 %) DNS 9 6 (14.63 %) .NET 9 6 (14.63 %) C# 9 6 (14.63 %) C++ 9 6 (14.63 %) Visual Studio 9 6 (14.63 %) ASP.NET 9 6 (14.63 %) UML 9 6 (14.63 %) OO 10 5 (12.20 %) Lotus Domino 10 5 (12.20 %) OOD 10 5 (12.20 %) C 10 5 (12.20 %) Crystal Reports

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (14.63 %) .NET 1 6 (14.63 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (12.20 %) AJAX 2 5 (12.20 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 10 (24.39 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (21.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (19.51 %) Lotus Notes 4 5 (12.20 %) Lotus Domino 5 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (2.439 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (21.95 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (19.51 %) LAN 1 8 (19.51 %) WAN 1 8 (19.51 %) TCP/IP 1 8 (19.51 %) Internet 2 6 (14.63 %) DNS 3 5 (12.20 %) Firewall 4 4 (9.756 %) VoIP 5 2 (4.878 %) VPN 5 2 (4.878 %) Wireless 6 1 (2.439 %) DHCP 6 1 (2.439 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (14.63 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (12.20 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (7.317 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (4.878 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 6 (14.63 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (9.756 %) Financial Institution 1 4 (9.756 %) Finance 1 4 (9.756 %) Education 2 3 (7.317 %) Retail 3 1 (2.439 %) Government 3 1 (2.439 %) Health 3 1 (2.439 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 9 (21.95 %) Analyst 2 8 (19.51 %) 1st Line Support 3 7 (17.07 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (9.756 %) Technical Support 4 4 (9.756 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) Software Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 4 (9.756 %) Citrix Engineer 4 4 (9.756 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 5 3 (7.317 %) IT Support Analyst 6 2 (4.878 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) UNIX Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) Senior Support Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (4.878 %) Administrator 6 2 (4.878 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.878 %) C# Developer 6 2 (4.878 %) Helpdesk Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.878 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.439 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 41 (100.00 %) Windows 2 17 (41.46 %) Windows XP 3 8 (19.51 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (4.878 %) UNIX 6 1 (2.439 %) AIX 6 1 (2.439 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (14.63 %) UML 1 6 (14.63 %) OO 2 5 (12.20 %) OOD 3 4 (9.756 %) Migration 3 4 (9.756 %) Network Design 3 4 (9.756 %) Software Engineering 4 3 (7.317 %) Manual Testing 4 3 (7.317 %) Project Management 5 2 (4.878 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.439 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.439 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.439 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 7 (17.07 %) VB 2 6 (14.63 %) C# 2 6 (14.63 %) C++ 3 5 (12.20 %) JavaScript 3 5 (12.20 %) C 4 2 (4.878 %) Perl 5 1 (2.439 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (12.20 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (9.756 %) Degree 2 4 (9.756 %) HP AIS 2 4 (9.756 %) MCSE 2 4 (9.756 %) MCSA 3 2 (4.878 %) HNC 4 1 (2.439 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (9.756 %) ISO9001 1 4 (9.756 %) QA 2 1 (2.439 %) SLA
System Software 1 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.439 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 5 (12.20 %) ARCserve 2 4 (9.756 %) BMC PATROL 3 2 (4.878 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 14 (34.15 %) Microsoft 2 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 2 8 (19.51 %) Lotus 3 6 (14.63 %) Citrix 4 4 (9.756 %) BMC 4 4 (9.756 %) HP 4 4 (9.756 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (9.756 %) VMware 4 4 (9.756 %) ProCurve 5 2 (4.878 %) IBM 5 2 (4.878 %) Symantec 5 2 (4.878 %) CA 6 1 (2.439 %) Nokia 6 1 (2.439 %) Alcatel 6 1 (2.439 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.439 %) BT