Midlands Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Midlands 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	41	51
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	13	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	20.63 %	13.92 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£245
Average daily rate	£350	£245
% change on same period last year	+42.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£303
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.23	£20.87
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Operating Systems Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	63	194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£298
Average daily rate	£371	£313
% change on same period last year	+18.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£22.38
% change on same period last year	+39.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£23.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Windows Server 2003 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 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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 14 (46.67 %) Active Directory 3 9 (30.00 %) Microsoft 3 9 (30.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 8 (26.67 %) SQL 5 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 5 7 (23.33 %) MS Exchange 6 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (13.33 %) VB 7 4 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (13.33 %) VMware 8 3 (10.00 %) VMware ESX 8 3 (10.00 %) Migration 8 3 (10.00 %) MCSE 8 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint

8 3 (10.00 %) LAN 8 3 (10.00 %) WAN 8 3 (10.00 %) .NET 8 3 (10.00 %) Oracle 8 3 (10.00 %) C# 8 3 (10.00 %) C++ 8 3 (10.00 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (10.00 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (10.00 %) HP 8 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 8 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 9 2 (6.667 %) OOD 9 2 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 9 2 (6.667 %) IBM

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (10.00 %) .NET 1 3 (10.00 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (6.667 %) AJAX 2 2 (6.667 %) HTML 3 1 (3.333 %) Fusebox	Application Platforms 1 7 (23.33 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint 3 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.667 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 2 (6.667 %) Office Project Server 4 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (3.333 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.333 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Project 1 2 (6.667 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.333 %) Fireworks 2 1 (3.333 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.00 %) LAN 1 3 (10.00 %) WAN 2 2 (6.667 %) DHCP 2 2 (6.667 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.333 %) Wireless 3 1 (3.333 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.333 %) VPN 3 1 (3.333 %) DNS 3 1 (3.333 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 2 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 3 (10.00 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (6.667 %) MSI 3 1 (3.333 %) Flash 3 1 (3.333 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 1 (3.333 %) Government 1 1 (3.333 %) Games 1 1 (3.333 %) Online Games	Job Titles 1 10 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 5 (16.67 %) Test Analyst 3 3 (10.00 %) Server Support 3 3 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (10.00 %) Server Engineer 3 3 (10.00 %) 2nd Line Support 3 3 (10.00 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 4 2 (6.667 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Support Specialist 4 2 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support 4 2 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Consultant 4 2 (6.667 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (3.333 %) Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) Project Manager 5 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (3.333 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (3.333 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) NHS 2 1 (3.333 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (30.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (6.667 %) Linux 4 2 (6.667 %) Windows XP 5 1 (3.333 %) Ubuntu 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.00 %) Migration 2 2 (6.667 %) UML 2 2 (6.667 %) OO 2 2 (6.667 %) OOD 2 2 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE 3 1 (3.333 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.333 %) Data Security 3 1 (3.333 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (3.333 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (3.333 %) Data Management 3 1 (3.333 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (3.333 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (26.67 %) SQL 2 4 (13.33 %) VB 3 3 (10.00 %) C# 3 3 (10.00 %) C++ 4 2 (6.667 %) JavaScript 4 2 (6.667 %) VB6 4 2 (6.667 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (10.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.333 %) CISSP	System Software 1 14 (46.67 %) Active Directory 2 3 (10.00 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) Legato 1 1 (3.333 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 9 (30.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.33 %) VMware 3 3 (10.00 %) HP 3 3 (10.00 %) Oracle 3 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 4 2 (6.667 %) IBM 5 1 (3.333 %) Juniper 5 1 (3.333 %) Dell 5 1 (3.333 %) EMC