Newbury Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Newbury 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 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	27
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	24.24 %	8.571 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£425
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£316
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£14.63
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£15.38
% change on same period last year	+72.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£16.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£20.91
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Operating Systems Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	33	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	7	28
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£391
Average daily rate	£367	£396
% change on same period last year	-7.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£330
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.01	£23.82
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£24.22
% change on same period last year	-4.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.01	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.90	£22.15
% change on same period last year	+3.39 %
Windows Server 2003 Berkshire

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 Newbury 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 Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (60.00 %) Active Directory 3 8 (53.33 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (53.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 7 (46.67 %) Microsoft 4 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 5 6 (40.00 %) TCP/IP 6 5 (33.33 %) MOM 6 5 (33.33 %) Blackberry 7 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 7 4 (26.67 %) SQL 7 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 8 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 8 3 (20.00 %) DNS 8 3 (20.00 %) Cisco

8 3 (20.00 %) Symantec 8 3 (20.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 2 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (13.33 %) Cisco PIX 9 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 2 (13.33 %) Firewall 9 2 (13.33 %) Migration 9 2 (13.33 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (13.33 %) Internet 9 2 (13.33 %) OpenView 9 2 (13.33 %) HP 9 2 (13.33 %) TestDirector 9 2 (13.33 %) Linux 9 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 1 (6.667 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 8 (53.33 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (53.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (20.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (6.667 %) IIS 3 1 (6.667 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (40.00 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (20.00 %) DNS 3 2 (13.33 %) Internet 3 2 (13.33 %) Firewall 3 2 (13.33 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (6.667 %) WAN 4 1 (6.667 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (13.33 %) TestDirector 2 1 (6.667 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (6.667 %) LoadRunner
General 1 4 (26.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.667 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (46.67 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (33.33 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (13.33 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (13.33 %) Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Tester 4 1 (6.667 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Senior Test Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Messaging Specialist 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Network Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Communications Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Specialist 4 1 (6.667 %) Lead Test Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (33.33 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (46.67 %) Windows XP 3 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (13.33 %) Linux 3 2 (13.33 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.667 %) Solaris 4 1 (6.667 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) Migration 1 2 (13.33 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 4 (26.67 %) SQL 2 1 (6.667 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (6.667 %) MCSA 1 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (6.667 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.667 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (60.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 5 (33.33 %) MOM 2 2 (13.33 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 7 (46.67 %) Microsoft 2 3 (20.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (20.00 %) Symantec 3 2 (13.33 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (13.33 %) HP 4 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 4 1 (6.667 %) Red Hat 4 1 (6.667 %) Remedy