North East Windows Server 2008 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 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 Server 2008 over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Location Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Leeds London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Romford Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£288
% change on same period last year	+27.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.81	£34.44
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
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 Server 2008 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 Server 2008
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.