North East Windows 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the North East 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 2000 over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	50
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	14	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	11.86 %	6.383 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£269
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.25	£9.69
Average hourly rate	£17.38	£10.44
% change on same period last year	+66.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£11.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.39	£17.36
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Operating Systems North East
Matching contract IT job ads	118	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.190 %	0.202 %
Daily rates quoted	10	48
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£333
Average daily rate	£307	£342
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.03	£19.68
Average hourly rate	£15.72	£20.58
% change on same period last year	-23.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.41	£21.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Windows 2000 England

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 North East region.

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 North East region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+13	9	£300	-
Durham	-4	5	-	-

Windows 2000 England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows XP 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory 4 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 5 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 6 4 (16.67 %) SQL 6 4 (16.67 %) MS Office 6 4 (16.67 %) Linux 7 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 7 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 7 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 8 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (8.333 %) Government

8 2 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (8.333 %) Backup Exec 8 2 (8.333 %) VoIP 8 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 8 2 (8.333 %) DNS 8 2 (8.333 %) SLA 8 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 8 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 8 2 (8.333 %) Photoshop 8 2 (8.333 %) Local Government 8 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (8.333 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (8.333 %) Dutch Language 8 2 (8.333 %) French Language 8 2 (8.333 %) German Language

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Development 1 1 (4.167 %) HTML 1 1 (4.167 %) CSS 1 1 (4.167 %) XML 1 1 (4.167 %) XSLT 1 1 (4.167 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (4.167 %) Apache 3 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Office 3 2 (8.333 %) Photoshop 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) VoIP 1 2 (8.333 %) DNS 2 1 (4.167 %) SAN 2 1 (4.167 %) Internet 2 1 (4.167 %) Firewall 2 1 (4.167 %) Wireless 2 1 (4.167 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 2 1 (4.167 %) Ethernet 2 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.167 %) MySQL	General 1 2 (8.333 %) Government 1 2 (8.333 %) Local Government 2 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms 2 1 (4.167 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 6 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 3 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Technical Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Server Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Support Technician 4 2 (8.333 %) Technical Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Desktop Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Server Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) ICT Technician 5 1 (4.167 %) IT Support Technician 5 1 (4.167 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Dutch Language 1 2 (8.333 %) French Language 1 2 (8.333 %) German Language 2 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry 2 1 (4.167 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.167 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 24 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows XP 2 13 (54.17 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (16.67 %) Linux 4 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 4 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 5 2 (8.333 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (4.167 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 1 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 4 (16.67 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 2 1 (4.167 %) VB 2 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript 2 1 (4.167 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (8.333 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.167 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 4 1 (4.167 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) Compaq 4 1 (4.167 %) Intel 4 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 4 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.167 %) Peregrine 4 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 4 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 4 1 (4.167 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (4.167 %) Remedy 4 1 (4.167 %) VMware 4 1 (4.167 %) IronPort