Middlesex Windows 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Middlesex 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staffordshire Staines Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	36
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	12	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	7.273 %	10.00 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£250
Average daily rate	£219	£298
% change on same period last year	-26.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£224	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£245	£277
% change on same period last year	-11.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£18.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.29	£17.64
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Operating Systems Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	165	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.260 %	0.107 %
Daily rates quoted	42	22
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£287
Average daily rate	£327	£300
% change on same period last year	+8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.74	£18.67
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£19.05
% change on same period last year	+30.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.08	£19.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Windows 2000 South East

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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 Middlesex region.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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 Middlesex region.

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (54.17 %) Active Directory 3 11 (45.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 11 (45.83 %) Citrix 4 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP 5 8 (33.33 %) LAN 6 7 (29.17 %) EMC 6 7 (29.17 %) WAN 6 7 (29.17 %) Cisco 6 7 (29.17 %) Law 7 6 (25.00 %) Backup Exec 7 6 (25.00 %) DNS 7 6 (25.00 %) DHCP 7 6 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (20.83 %) NetWare

8 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 8 5 (20.83 %) VoIP 8 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (20.83 %) RepliStor 8 5 (20.83 %) Novell 8 5 (20.83 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 5 (20.83 %) NetIQ 8 5 (20.83 %) ZENworks 8 5 (20.83 %) GroupWise 8 5 (20.83 %) IP Telephony 8 5 (20.83 %) Cisco IPT 8 5 (20.83 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 4 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 4 (16.67 %) Blackberry 9 4 (16.67 %) SAN

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 Development 1 1 (4.167 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (20.83 %) GroupWise 2 4 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (8.333 %) WorkSite 4 2 (8.333 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 2 (8.333 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 8 (33.33 %) LAN 2 7 (29.17 %) WAN 3 6 (25.00 %) DNS 3 6 (25.00 %) DHCP 3 6 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (20.83 %) VoIP 4 5 (20.83 %) IP Telephony 4 5 (20.83 %) Cisco IPT 5 4 (16.67 %) SAN 6 1 (4.167 %) ISDN 6 1 (4.167 %) WLAN 6 1 (4.167 %) VPN 6 1 (4.167 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 7 (29.17 %) Law 2 1 (4.167 %) Government 2 1 (4.167 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 17 (70.83 %) Analyst 2 16 (66.67 %) Support Analyst 3 7 (29.17 %) Technical Analyst 4 6 (25.00 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 6 (25.00 %) Technical Support 5 5 (20.83 %) 3rd Line Support 5 5 (20.83 %) Operations Analyst 6 4 (16.67 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 8 2 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 8 2 (8.333 %) Server Analyst 8 2 (8.333 %) Server Support Analyst 8 2 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 8 2 (8.333 %) Server Support Engineer 8 2 (8.333 %) Server Support 8 2 (8.333 %) 2nd Line Support 9 1 (4.167 %) Support Consultant 9 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architect 9 1 (4.167 %) Consultant 9 1 (4.167 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) Blackberry 2 1 (4.167 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.167 %) PDA 2 1 (4.167 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 11 (45.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP 4 5 (20.83 %) NetWare 5 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 2 1 (4.167 %) ITSM 2 1 (4.167 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) MCP 2 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 2 1 (4.167 %) CCNA 2 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (54.17 %) Active Directory 2 6 (25.00 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (20.83 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (4.167 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 5 (20.83 %) RepliStor 1 5 (20.83 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 5 (20.83 %) ZENworks 2 2 (8.333 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 11 (45.83 %) Citrix 2 7 (29.17 %) EMC 2 7 (29.17 %) Cisco 3 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 3 5 (20.83 %) Novell 3 5 (20.83 %) NetIQ 4 4 (16.67 %) HP 5 3 (12.50 %) Compaq 5 3 (12.50 %) Lotus 6 2 (8.333 %) Interwoven 7 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 7 1 (4.167 %) Dell 7 1 (4.167 %) Sun 7 1 (4.167 %) Intel 7 1 (4.167 %) IBM 7 1 (4.167 %) VMware 7 1 (4.167 %) Remedy 7 1 (4.167 %) Sophos 7 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 7 1 (4.167 %) Altiris