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The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the London 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 2000 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank9073
Rank change on same period last yearDown-17
Matching contract IT job ads5881065
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.795 %1.050 %
As % of the category below9.175 %10.18 %
Daily rates quoted190299
Average minimum daily rate£301£332
Average daily rate£318£349
% change on same period last year-8.72 %
Average maximum daily rate£335£365
UK excluding London average daily rate£269£295
% change on same period last year-8.79 %
Hourly rates quoted139241
Average minimum hourly rate£18.63£16.99
Average hourly rate£19.56£18.09
% change on same period last year+8.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate£20.48£19.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.29£18.17
% change on same period last year-4.86 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
London
Matching contract IT job ads640910457
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled8.663 %10.31 %
Daily rates quoted25693635
Average minimum daily rate£369£405
Average daily rate£392£429
% change on same period last year-8.62 %
Average maximum daily rate£415£453
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£336
% change on same period last year-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted647922
Average minimum hourly rate£20.00£20.60
Average hourly rate£21.22£21.79
% change on same period last year-2.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate£22.44£22.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.70£22.66
% change on same period last year+0.18 %
Windows 2000 EnglandWindows 2000
England

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

London Windows 2000 Demand Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

London Windows 2000 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

London Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 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.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-11168£326-2.32 %
Docklands, LondonUp+214£356-1.14 %
HounslowNew entry-6--
Canary WharfUp+125£409-10.35 %
BrentfordDown-24--
ClaphamNew entry-3£375-
UxbridgeDown-112--
GraysNew entry-2£300-
HarrowDown-22--
RomfordNew entry-2--
WestminsterDown-22£160-
LutonUp+212£160-56.16 %
PaddingtonNo change01£235-6.00 %
BromleyNew entry-1--
FelthamNew entry-1--
HammersmithDown-111£250+25.00 %
CroydonUp+31--
Windows 2000 EnglandWindows 2000
England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

11106 (100.00 %)Windows
2618 (55.88 %)Windows Server 2003
3528 (47.74 %)Windows XP
4452 (40.87 %)Active Directory
5367 (33.18 %)Microsoft
6328 (29.66 %)MS Office
7265 (23.96 %)MS Exchange
8222 (20.07 %)Finance
9199 (17.99 %)MS Excel
10191 (17.27 %)Citrix
11185 (16.73 %)TCP/IP
12178 (16.09 %)SQL Server
13155 (14.01 %)Microsoft Certification
14144 (13.02 %)DNS
15140 (12.66 %)Exchange Server 2003
16134 (12.12 %)SQL
16134 (12.12 %)Banking
17126 (11.39 %)MCSE
18118 (10.67 %)HP
19111 (10.04 %)ITIL
20105 (9.494 %)UNIX
21100 (9.042 %)Cisco
2298 (8.861 %)Windows NT
2298 (8.861 %)Windows 2000 Server
2397 (8.770 %)VMware
2486 (7.776 %)Linux
2486 (7.776 %)SAN
2584 (7.595 %)DHCP
2681 (7.324 %)IIS
2778 (7.052 %)Migration

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
148 (4.340 %).NET
218 (1.627 %)Middleware
316 (1.447 %)Application Packaging
415 (1.356 %)HTML
514 (1.266 %)WebSphere
514 (1.266 %)XML
610 (0.904 %)WinForms
610 (0.904 %)ASP
79 (0.814 %)ASP.NET
79 (0.814 %).NET Framework
87 (0.633 %)ODBC
87 (0.633 %)DCOM
96 (0.542 %)WebServices
105 (0.452 %)XSLT
105 (0.452 %)ActiveX
105 (0.452 %)STL
105 (0.452 %)CSS
105 (0.452 %)J2EE
113 (0.271 %)Software Packaging
113 (0.271 %)WMI
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1265 (23.96 %)MS Exchange
2140 (12.66 %)Exchange Server 2003
381 (7.324 %)IIS
476 (6.872 %)Lotus Notes
550 (4.521 %)Exchange Server 2000
638 (3.436 %)SharePoint
727 (2.441 %)Exchange Server 2007
821 (1.899 %)Exchange Server 5.5
919 (1.718 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1011 (0.995 %)MQSeries
119 (0.814 %)Apache
119 (0.814 %)GroupWise
127 (0.633 %)Tomcat
136 (0.542 %)Lotus Domino
136 (0.542 %)WebSphere MQ
136 (0.542 %)WebSphere Message Broker
145 (0.452 %)WPS
145 (0.452 %)WebLogic
153 (0.271 %)ArcGIS
153 (0.271 %)LiveLink
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1328 (29.66 %)MS Office
2199 (17.99 %)MS Excel
326 (2.351 %)MS Visio
412 (1.085 %)MS Project
510 (0.904 %)Photoshop
68 (0.723 %)QuarkXPress
77 (0.633 %)Adobe Illustrator
86 (0.542 %)Spreadsheet
94 (0.362 %)MS PowerPoint
102 (0.181 %)Fireworks
102 (0.181 %)AutoCAD
111 (0.090 %)PageMaker
111 (0.090 %)Acrobat
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
16 (0.542 %)Oracle 11i
24 (0.362 %)Oracle Applications
32 (0.181 %)Summit
41 (0.090 %)Temenos Globus
41 (0.090 %)RMDS
41 (0.090 %)SalesLogix
41 (0.090 %)Kondor+
41 (0.090 %)Remedy ITSM
41 (0.090 %)Oracle HRMS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1185 (16.73 %)TCP/IP
2144 (13.02 %)DNS
386 (7.776 %)SAN
484 (7.595 %)DHCP
576 (6.872 %)LAN
663 (5.696 %)Firewall
760 (5.425 %)WAN
847 (4.250 %)VPN
936 (3.255 %)Internet
1018 (1.627 %)VoIP
1117 (1.537 %)Ethernet
1117 (1.537 %)Cisco PIX
1216 (1.447 %)ISDN
1315 (1.356 %)Wireless
1414 (1.266 %)Intranet
1414 (1.266 %)VLAN
1513 (1.175 %)SNMP
1612 (1.085 %)LDAP
1710 (0.904 %)Network Security
189 (0.814 %)Cisco IPT
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1178 (16.09 %)SQL Server
264 (5.787 %)SQL Server 2000
357 (5.154 %)SQL Server 2005
425 (2.260 %)Oracle 10g
517 (1.537 %)Oracle 9i
616 (1.447 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
712 (1.085 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
712 (1.085 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
810 (0.904 %)MS Access
810 (0.904 %)RDBMS
98 (0.723 %)GIS
106 (0.542 %)MySQL
115 (0.452 %)TOAD
115 (0.452 %)SQL Navigator
123 (0.271 %)Crystal Reports
123 (0.271 %)Informix
132 (0.181 %)Oracle 8/8i
132 (0.181 %)DTS
132 (0.181 %)BusinessObjects
141 (0.090 %)SQLPlus
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
118 (1.627 %)Visual Studio
216 (1.447 %)MSI
311 (0.995 %)TestDirector
47 (0.633 %)Ant
56 (0.542 %)VSS/SourceSafe
56 (0.542 %)InstallShield
65 (0.452 %)JIRA
65 (0.452 %)ClearCase
65 (0.452 %)Eclipse
73 (0.271 %)JUnit
82 (0.181 %)Dreamweaver
82 (0.181 %)Flash
82 (0.181 %)LoadRunner
91 (0.090 %)InterDev
91 (0.090 %)Subversion
91 (0.090 %)FrontPage
91 (0.090 %)JBuilder
91 (0.090 %)Oracle Forms
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1222 (20.07 %)Finance
2134 (12.12 %)Banking
374 (6.691 %)Legal
461 (5.515 %)Investment Banking
556 (5.063 %)Law
652 (4.702 %)Government
719 (1.718 %)Retail
818 (1.627 %)Financial Institution
913 (1.175 %)Back Office
1011 (0.995 %)Auditing
1011 (0.995 %)Insurance
1110 (0.904 %)Front Office
127 (0.633 %)Health
127 (0.633 %)Marketing
136 (0.542 %)Telecoms
145 (0.452 %)Education
154 (0.362 %)Publishing
154 (0.362 %)Local Government
163 (0.271 %)Pharmaceutical
172 (0.181 %)Advertising
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1379 (34.27 %)Analyst
2244 (22.06 %)Support Analyst
3170 (15.37 %)Desktop Support
497 (8.770 %)Helpdesk Analyst
595 (8.590 %)Support Engineer
692 (8.318 %)Helpdesk Support
785 (7.685 %)Desktop Analyst
883 (7.505 %)2nd Line Support
979 (7.143 %)Desktop Support Analyst
1074 (6.691 %)Service Analyst
1171 (6.420 %)Service Desk Analyst
1260 (5.425 %)Helpdesk Support Analyst
1354 (4.882 %)Administrator
1449 (4.430 %)3rd Line Support
1544 (3.978 %)Developer
1643 (3.888 %)DBA
1739 (3.526 %)Server Engineer
1830 (2.712 %)Desktop Engineer
1928 (2.532 %)Infrastructure Engineer
2027 (2.441 %)Consultant
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
175 (6.781 %)Blackberry
240 (3.617 %)Clustering
326 (2.351 %)Replication
419 (1.718 %)NHS
515 (1.356 %)Derivative
515 (1.356 %)French Language
613 (1.175 %)PDA
613 (1.175 %)Thin Client
613 (1.175 %)CLARiiON
613 (1.175 %)Fat Client
79 (0.814 %)Management Information System
79 (0.814 %)Client/Server
79 (0.814 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
88 (0.723 %)Symmetrix
88 (0.723 %)EMC Centera
88 (0.723 %)Equity Derivative
96 (0.542 %)Fixed Income
96 (0.542 %)Multithreading
96 (0.542 %)Video Conferencing
104 (0.362 %)Computer Science
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11106 (100.00 %)Windows
2618 (55.88 %)Windows Server 2003
3528 (47.74 %)Windows XP
4105 (9.494 %)UNIX
598 (8.861 %)Windows NT
598 (8.861 %)Windows 2000 Server
686 (7.776 %)Linux
777 (6.962 %)Solaris
851 (4.611 %)Windows Vista
925 (2.260 %)Red Hat Linux
1022 (1.989 %)NetWare
1121 (1.899 %)Windows Server 2008
1215 (1.356 %)HPUX
1314 (1.266 %)Mac OS X
147 (0.633 %)Mac OS X Server
155 (0.452 %)AIX
162 (0.181 %)VMS
171 (0.090 %)SUSE
171 (0.090 %)Windows CE
171 (0.090 %)MVS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1111 (10.04 %)ITIL
278 (7.052 %)Migration
367 (6.058 %)Security Cleared
436 (3.255 %)Document Management
532 (2.893 %)SC Cleared
629 (2.622 %)Asset Management
723 (2.080 %)User Acceptance Testing
723 (2.080 %)Disaster Recovery
821 (1.899 %)Service Delivery
919 (1.718 %)Configuration Management
1016 (1.447 %)Incident Management
1115 (1.356 %)Data Migration
1214 (1.266 %)CTC Cleared
1214 (1.266 %)Project Management
1312 (1.085 %)PRINCE2
1411 (0.995 %)Change Management
1411 (0.995 %)DV Cleared
1510 (0.904 %)Test Management
1510 (0.904 %)UML
168 (0.723 %)Process Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1134 (12.12 %)SQL
245 (4.069 %)C++
344 (3.978 %)C#
432 (2.893 %)Java
528 (2.532 %)VB
618 (1.627 %)PL/SQL
618 (1.627 %)VBScript
715 (1.356 %)Shell Script
715 (1.356 %)JavaScript
814 (1.266 %)Perl
913 (1.175 %)Transact-SQL
1012 (1.085 %)VBA
119 (0.814 %)VB.NET
119 (0.814 %)C
127 (0.633 %)VB6
135 (0.452 %)PowerShell
135 (0.452 %)PHP
143 (0.271 %)VC++
152 (0.181 %)Korn
161 (0.090 %)AWK
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1155 (14.01 %)Microsoft Certification
2126 (11.39 %)MCSE
349 (4.430 %)MCP
423 (2.080 %)Degree
522 (1.989 %)Cisco Certification
614 (1.266 %)CCNA
79 (0.814 %)CCNP
79 (0.814 %)ITIL Certification
88 (0.723 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
88 (0.723 %)Oracle Certification
96 (0.542 %)CCIE
96 (0.542 %)MCSA
96 (0.542 %)MCDBA
105 (0.452 %)ECDL
105 (0.452 %)MCTS
114 (0.362 %)MOS
123 (0.271 %)MCSD
123 (0.271 %)Citrix Certification
132 (0.181 %)Novell Certification
132 (0.181 %)PRINCE2 Certification
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
128 (2.532 %)SLA
214 (1.266 %)QA
32 (0.181 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1452 (40.87 %)Active Directory
249 (4.430 %)VMware Infrastructure
335 (3.165 %)Citrix Presentation Server
432 (2.893 %)Backup Exec
528 (2.532 %)VMware ESX
626 (2.351 %)MetaFrame
725 (2.260 %)NetBackup
818 (1.627 %)Terminal Server
915 (1.356 %)ISA Server
1014 (1.266 %)Terminal Services
119 (0.814 %)Oracle RMAN
128 (0.723 %)VMware Workstation
128 (0.723 %)VMware Server
134 (0.362 %)NFS
143 (0.271 %)MailMarshal
143 (0.271 %)Samba
152 (0.181 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
152 (0.181 %)Oracle RAC
161 (0.090 %)Novell eDirectory
161 (0.090 %)Xen
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
147 (4.250 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
225 (2.260 %)MOM
316 (1.447 %)MAILsweeper
413 (1.175 %)DameWare
413 (1.175 %)ZENworks
512 (1.085 %)Tivoli
610 (0.904 %)OpenView
610 (0.904 %)SCCM
78 (0.723 %)WSUS
78 (0.723 %)Norton AntiVirus
78 (0.723 %)EMC TimeFinder
86 (0.542 %)Tivoli Monitoring
86 (0.542 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
95 (0.452 %)BMC PATROL
95 (0.452 %)ARCserve
104 (0.362 %)EMC NetWorker
104 (0.362 %)AssetCenter
104 (0.362 %)Legato
104 (0.362 %)Netcool
113 (0.271 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1367 (33.18 %)Microsoft
2191 (17.27 %)Citrix
3118 (10.67 %)HP
4100 (9.042 %)Cisco
597 (8.770 %)VMware
676 (6.872 %)Lotus
775 (6.781 %)Oracle
851 (4.611 %)Dell
946 (4.159 %)VERITAS
1042 (3.797 %)Sun
1138 (3.436 %)Remedy
1235 (3.165 %)EMC
1332 (2.893 %)Reuters
1431 (2.803 %)Bloomberg
1530 (2.712 %)Altiris
1530 (2.712 %)Novell
1629 (2.622 %)Symantec
1725 (2.260 %)Red Hat
1725 (2.260 %)IBM
1818 (1.627 %)McAfee Security