The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2008 over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the North East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 36 23 34
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 1 24 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.369% 4.918% 2.733%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.587% 24.24% 9.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 5
Average daily rate £330 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +12.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £25.76
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+7.89% +8.57%
All Operating Systems
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
63 99 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 23.25% 20.29% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 46
Average daily rate £263 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £448 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 12
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.66 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% -2.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £8.67
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.13 £20.00 £26.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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.

North East Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the North East region.

North East Windows Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the North East region.

North East Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2008 within the North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Durham -1 1 £330 -9.58%
Windows Server 2008
England

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (40.00%) Clustering
4 4 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (30.00%) SCOM
5 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (30.00%) IIS
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 3 (30.00%) WSUS
5 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) DNS
6 2 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (20.00%) Citrix
6 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) MS Office
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (10.00%) RightFax

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Windows Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSLT
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (10.00%) MS Project Server
3 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (10.00%) SNMP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) SMTP
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intranet
2 1 (10.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Server Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) PACS
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (10.00%) Network Design
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Password Management
2 1 (10.00%) MOF
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
1 3 (30.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) HP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) RightFax
4 1 (10.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (10.00%) TippingPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Novell
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee
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It would also be beneficial to have experience of IIS, WSUS, SCOM, Hyper-V, Cisco, HP Proliant, HP blade range of servers and Cisco. The role will require...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 20 May 2013