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The first part of the 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 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Milton Keynes region.

 Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank322546
Rank change year-on-year
Down-7Up+21
Matching contract IT job ads71722
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes1.733 %4.595 %2.366 %
As % of the Operating Systems category6.731 %12.14 %9.362 %
Daily rates quoted251
Average daily rate£319£320£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.390 %-14.66 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£240£224£313
% change year-on-year
+7.260 %-28.40 %
Hourly rates quoted429
Average hourly rate£11.44£23.25£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.78 %+55.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£13.85£11.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.49£32.65£50.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£15.00£14.00
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %+7.140 %
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
104140235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes25.74 %37.84 %25.27 %
Daily rates quoted245933
Average daily rate£148£324£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-54.12 %-19.12 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£315£310£330
% change year-on-year
+1.610 %-6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted352751
Average hourly rate£14.00£21.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33 %+5.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.14£12.70£12.60
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.00£37.10£50.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Windows 2000 BuckinghamshireWindows 2000
Buckinghamshire

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.

Windows 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

114 (100.00 %)Windows
211 (78.57 %)Microsoft
38 (57.14 %)Windows XP
47 (50.00 %)MS Excel
54 (28.57 %)Security Cleared
54 (28.57 %)SC Cleared
63 (21.43 %)Open Source
63 (21.43 %)Government
63 (21.43 %)XML
63 (21.43 %)PRINCE2
63 (21.43 %)J2EE
63 (21.43 %)SQL Server
63 (21.43 %)Windows Server 2003
63 (21.43 %)SQL Server 7
72 (14.29 %)MS Exchange
72 (14.29 %)Microsoft Certification
72 (14.29 %)MCSE
72 (14.29 %)Migration
72 (14.29 %)Finance
72 (14.29 %)Project Management
72 (14.29 %)Windows Server 2008
72 (14.29 %)DV Cleared
81 (7.143 %)Windows 2000 Server
81 (7.143 %)NAS
81 (7.143 %)Degree
81 (7.143 %)Windows Vista
81 (7.143 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
81 (7.143 %)Fat Client
81 (7.143 %)Integration Testing
81 (7.143 %)Mainframe

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (21.43 %)J2EE
13 (21.43 %)XML
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (14.29 %)MS Exchange
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (50.00 %)MS Excel
21 (7.143 %)MS Project
21 (7.143 %)MS Office
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (7.143 %)Broadband
11 (7.143 %)SAN
11 (7.143 %)NAS
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (21.43 %)SQL Server
13 (21.43 %)SQL Server 7
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (21.43 %)Government
22 (14.29 %)Finance
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (50.00 %)Analyst
25 (35.71 %)Service Analyst
34 (28.57 %)Service Desk Analyst
43 (21.43 %)Project Manager
51 (7.143 %)Technical Specialist
51 (7.143 %)IT Technician
51 (7.143 %)Windows Systems Engineer
51 (7.143 %)Wintel Specialist
51 (7.143 %)Test Analyst
51 (7.143 %)Systems Engineer
51 (7.143 %)Support Analyst
51 (7.143 %)Technical Support
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (21.43 %)Open Source
21 (7.143 %)Thin Client
21 (7.143 %)Mainframe
21 (7.143 %)Fat Client
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
114 (100.00 %)Windows
28 (57.14 %)Windows XP
33 (21.43 %)Windows Server 2003
42 (14.29 %)Windows Server 2008
51 (7.143 %)Windows 2000 Server
51 (7.143 %)Windows Vista
51 (7.143 %)Windows CE
51 (7.143 %)Windows NT
51 (7.143 %)UNIX
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (21.43 %)PRINCE2
22 (14.29 %)Project Management
22 (14.29 %)Migration
31 (7.143 %)Integration Testing
31 (7.143 %)ITIL
31 (7.143 %)Change Management
31 (7.143 %)Disaster Recovery
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (7.143 %)C
11 (7.143 %)JavaScript
11 (7.143 %)SQL
11 (7.143 %)VBScript
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (28.57 %)SC Cleared
14 (28.57 %)Security Cleared
22 (14.29 %)DV Cleared
22 (14.29 %)MCSE
22 (14.29 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (7.143 %)ITIL Certification
31 (7.143 %)Degree
31 (7.143 %)MCSA
31 (7.143 %)MCP
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (7.143 %)SLA
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (7.143 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (7.143 %)OpenView Configuration Management
Milton Keynes IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
111 (78.57 %)Microsoft
21 (7.143 %)Intel