The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 24 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 Merseyside 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank - 32 22
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 0 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 1.149% 3.629%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 3.896% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £105 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -63.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £205 £291
% change year-on-year
+52.43% -29.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £15.11 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +37.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
62 77 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.69% 29.50% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 27
Average daily rate £325 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £140 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 10
Average hourly rate £11.25 £16.50 £11.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +47.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.12 £30.00 £20.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 2000
North West

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware