North Wales Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the North Wales 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	9
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	41.67 %	25.00 %
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	£299	£305
% change on same period last year	-1.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.31	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-2.88 %
Operating Systems North Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£400
Average daily rate	£250	£413
% change on same period last year	-39.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£10.80
% change on same period last year	+200.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£11.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Windows Server 2003 Wales

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 North Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 North Wales region.

Windows Server 2003
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 2003 within the North Wales 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
Denbighshire	-1	2	-	-

Windows Server 2003 Wales

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory 3 6 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (75.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (62.50 %) SAN 4 5 (62.50 %) MCSE 5 4 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (37.50 %) Migration 6 3 (37.50 %) Samba 6 3 (37.50 %) Linux 6 3 (37.50 %) MCP 6 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 6 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 7 2 (25.00 %) SQL

7 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 7 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 8 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (12.50 %) VMware 8 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 8 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 8 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 8 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (12.50 %) MetaFrame 8 1 (12.50 %) HP 8 1 (12.50 %) SMS 8 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 8 1 (12.50 %) VPN 8 1 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 Platforms 1 6 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (75.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes	Communications & Networking 1 5 (62.50 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) SMS 2 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (12.50 %) VPN
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) Hardware Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) SAN Engineer
Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) Linux 2 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (62.50 %) MCSE 1 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (37.50 %) MCP 3 1 (12.50 %) HNC
System Software 1 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory 2 3 (37.50 %) Samba 3 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (12.50 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 3 1 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) HP