Newcastle Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Newcastle 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 6 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 Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham 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 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 Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster 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 Lanarkshire 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 Redhill Reigate Rochester Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland 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 Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	21
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	15	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	45.45 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£180
Average daily rate	-	£188
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.53	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£25.34	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-7.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.14	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.04	£21.42
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Operating Systems Newcastle
Matching contract IT job ads	33	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£304
Average daily rate	£383	£318
% change on same period last year	+20.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.30	£26.55
Average hourly rate	£23.87	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-16.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.44	£30.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.90	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Windows Server 2003 Tyne and Wear

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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Newcastle region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 26 (100.00 %) Windows 2 11 (42.31 %) Security Cleared 3 10 (38.46 %) Active Directory 4 9 (34.62 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (26.92 %) DNS 6 7 (26.92 %) SC Cleared 7 6 (23.08 %) Government 7 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 8 5 (19.23 %) Nortel 8 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (19.23 %) Windows XP 8 5 (19.23 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (19.23 %) LAN 8 5 (19.23 %) VoIP

8 5 (19.23 %) WAN 9 4 (15.38 %) Windows NT 10 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 10 3 (11.54 %) Citrix 10 3 (11.54 %) Backup Exec 10 3 (11.54 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 2 (7.692 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 2 (7.692 %) Service Management 11 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 11 2 (7.692 %) VERITAS 11 2 (7.692 %) Adobe 11 2 (7.692 %) DHCP 11 2 (7.692 %) ITIL 11 2 (7.692 %) Photoshop 12 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere Application Server

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 (3.846 %) J2EE 1 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere 1 1 (3.846 %) OC4J	Application Platforms 1 5 (19.23 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (11.54 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.692 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 2 (7.692 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 7 (26.92 %) DNS 2 5 (19.23 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (19.23 %) LAN 2 5 (19.23 %) VoIP 2 5 (19.23 %) WAN 3 2 (7.692 %) DHCP 4 1 (3.846 %) SNMP 4 1 (3.846 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 6 (23.08 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Law
Job Titles 1 5 (19.23 %) Field Engineer 2 3 (11.54 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (11.54 %) Analyst 2 3 (11.54 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (7.692 %) Server Support 3 2 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (7.692 %) Server Support Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Server Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Windows Support Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Wintel Support 4 1 (3.846 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Oracle DBA 4 1 (3.846 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Desktop Support Technician 4 1 (3.846 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 26 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (34.62 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 8 (30.77 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (19.23 %) Windows XP 5 4 (15.38 %) Windows NT 6 1 (3.846 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (42.31 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (26.92 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 2 (7.692 %) Service Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (3.846 %) E-business 4 1 (3.846 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.846 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.846 %) Degree 2 1 (3.846 %) HND 2 1 (3.846 %) MCSE
System Software 1 10 (38.46 %) Active Directory 2 3 (11.54 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (3.846 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 5 (19.23 %) Nortel 3 3 (11.54 %) Citrix 4 2 (7.692 %) VERITAS 4 2 (7.692 %) Adobe 5 1 (3.846 %) Dell 5 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.846 %) IBM