The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 51 55 30
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -25
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 4 6 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.755% 0.849% 4.412%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.810% 2.927% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
Average daily rate - £251 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -27.39%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £213 £293
% change year-on-year
+52.94% -27.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £11.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
105 205 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.81% 29.00% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 55
Average daily rate £313 £280 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.60% -2.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 32
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £10.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £15.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 2000
Buckinghamshire

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) Intel
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (66.67%) Windows NT
2 8 (66.67%) MCSE
3 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
4 6 (50.00%) SLA
5 5 (41.67%) Broadband
5 5 (41.67%) SAN
5 5 (41.67%) VMware
5 5 (41.67%) NAS
6 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
6 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (33.33%) Firewall
6 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (33.33%) Internet
6 4 (33.33%) Symantec
6 4 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (33.33%) Sophos
6 4 (33.33%) DHCP
6 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 4 (33.33%) VPN
6 4 (33.33%) DNS
6 4 (33.33%) MS Office

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Broadband
1 5 (41.67%) SAN
1 5 (41.67%) NAS
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Wintel Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Wintel Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (16.67%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (66.67%) Windows NT
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Change Management
1 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (66.67%) MCSE
2 1 (8.333%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (16.67%) ISA Server
4 2 (16.67%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (25.00%) SCOM
3 2 (16.67%) BladeLogic
4 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Intel
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
4 4 (33.33%) Symantec
4 4 (33.33%) Sophos
5 3 (25.00%) HP
6 2 (16.67%) IBM
6 2 (16.67%) Citrix
7 1 (8.333%) Dell