Milton Keynes Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Milton Keynes 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	40
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	37	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	12.42 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£327
Average daily rate	£366	£355
% change on same period last year	+3.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.68	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Operating Systems Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	298	308
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.397 %	0.312 %
Daily rates quoted	77	60
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£262
Average daily rate	£331	£281
% change on same period last year	+17.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£301
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.21	£20.37
Average hourly rate	£20.63	£21.05
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.04	£21.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Server 2003 Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Milton Keynes region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 60 (100.00 %) Windows 2 38 (63.33 %) Security Cleared 3 33 (55.00 %) Active Directory 4 31 (51.67 %) Microsoft Certification 5 30 (50.00 %) MCSE 6 28 (46.67 %) SC Cleared 7 22 (36.67 %) SQL 8 21 (35.00 %) OpenView 9 18 (30.00 %) CiscoWorks 9 18 (30.00 %) Cisco 9 18 (30.00 %) Oracle 9 18 (30.00 %) ITIL 9 18 (30.00 %) OVPA 9 18 (30.00 %) OVPI 9 18 (30.00 %) OVOW

10 17 (28.33 %) DNS 11 16 (26.67 %) Telecoms 12 15 (25.00 %) Migration 12 15 (25.00 %) DHCP 12 15 (25.00 %) CNE 12 15 (25.00 %) Novell Certification 12 15 (25.00 %) ITSM 13 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 14 (23.33 %) LAN 13 14 (23.33 %) WAN 14 13 (21.67 %) Government 14 13 (21.67 %) Windows Vista 15 11 (18.33 %) HP 16 10 (16.67 %) OpenView Configuration Management 17 9 (15.00 %) Intranet

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms 1 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 2 (3.333 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (1.667 %) IIS 3 1 (1.667 %) Apache 3 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 17 (28.33 %) DNS 2 15 (25.00 %) DHCP 3 14 (23.33 %) LAN 3 14 (23.33 %) WAN 4 9 (15.00 %) Intranet 4 9 (15.00 %) Internet 5 5 (8.333 %) Network Security 5 5 (8.333 %) SAN 6 1 (1.667 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 3 (5.000 %) TestDirector	General 1 16 (26.67 %) Telecoms 2 13 (21.67 %) Government 3 5 (8.333 %) Finance 4 4 (6.667 %) Legal 5 1 (1.667 %) Military
Job Titles 1 20 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 15 (25.00 %) OpenView Specialist 3 7 (11.67 %) Technical Consultant 4 6 (10.00 %) Architect 4 6 (10.00 %) Network Architect 5 5 (8.333 %) Security Architect 5 5 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Consultant 5 5 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Architect 6 3 (5.000 %) Windows Technical Consultant 6 3 (5.000 %) Technical Architect 6 3 (5.000 %) OpenView Consultant 7 2 (3.333 %) Active Directory Specialist 7 2 (3.333 %) Server Specialist 7 2 (3.333 %) Technical Manager 7 2 (3.333 %) Citrix Engineer 7 2 (3.333 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (3.333 %) Project Manager 7 2 (3.333 %) Technical Project Manager 8 1 (1.667 %) Support Engineer 8 1 (1.667 %) Infrastructure Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.333 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.667 %) CESG 2 1 (1.667 %) CESG CLAS 2 1 (1.667 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 60 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (21.67 %) Windows Vista 3 7 (11.67 %) Linux 4 6 (10.00 %) Windows XP 5 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 38 (63.33 %) Security Cleared 2 28 (46.67 %) SC Cleared 3 18 (30.00 %) ITIL 4 15 (25.00 %) ITSM 4 15 (25.00 %) Migration 5 6 (10.00 %) System Testing 6 5 (8.333 %) Network Design 7 3 (5.000 %) Release Management 8 1 (1.667 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (1.667 %) Project Management 8 1 (1.667 %) Service Delivery 8 1 (1.667 %) Incident Management 8 1 (1.667 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.667 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 22 (36.67 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 31 (51.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 30 (50.00 %) MCSE 3 15 (25.00 %) CNE 3 15 (25.00 %) Novell Certification 4 3 (5.000 %) ISEB 5 1 (1.667 %) CCA 5 1 (1.667 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.667 %) CISSP 5 1 (1.667 %) Degree 5 1 (1.667 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.000 %) QA	System Software 1 33 (55.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.000 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 21 (35.00 %) OpenView 2 18 (30.00 %) CiscoWorks 2 18 (30.00 %) OVOW 2 18 (30.00 %) OVPA 2 18 (30.00 %) OVPI 3 10 (16.67 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 18 (30.00 %) Oracle 1 18 (30.00 %) Cisco 2 11 (18.33 %) HP 3 6 (10.00 %) Microsoft 4 5 (8.333 %) Compaq 5 4 (6.667 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.667 %) VERITAS