Windows 2000 Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 106 118 87
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -31
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 11 14 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.479% 0.442% 1.462%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.068% 1.991% 6.374%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 33
Average daily rate £332 £190 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.47% -25.49%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £225 £273
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -17.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
Average hourly rate £9.63 £20.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.87% +81.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.88 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.93% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 532 703 706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.16% 22.20% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 281 381
Average daily rate £295 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.08% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £458 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 67 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.18 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows 2000
England

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West Windows 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North West region.

North West Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North West region.

North West Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cheshire +10 6 £332 -
Manchester +12 5 - -
Windows 2000
England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) Microsoft
3 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (50.00%) VMware
4 11 (45.83%) Hyper-V
5 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 9 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (37.50%) ITIL
6 8 (33.33%) Migration
7 7 (29.17%) Citrix
8 6 (25.00%) DNS
8 6 (25.00%) SCCM
8 6 (25.00%) SCOM
8 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (20.83%) Windows 2000 Server
9 5 (20.83%) Clustering
9 5 (20.83%) SAN
9 5 (20.83%) DHCP
9 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
9 5 (20.83%) Windows NT
9 5 (20.83%) Windows XP
10 4 (16.67%) MS Office
10 4 (16.67%) SQL
10 4 (16.67%) UNIX
10 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
10 4 (16.67%) HP
10 4 (16.67%) Validation
11 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
11 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 3 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.167%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
2 4 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (4.167%) MS Project
3 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) SAN
2 5 (20.83%) DHCP
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (8.333%) Ethernet
4 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.333%) ADSL
5 1 (4.167%) PBX
5 1 (4.167%) Symposium
5 1 (4.167%) SSH
5 1 (4.167%) Nortel Meridian
5 1 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
2 2 (8.333%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Wintel Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Wintel Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Helpdesk Technician
5 2 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.167%) Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.167%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) NHS
3 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) NPfIT
3 1 (4.167%) Statistics
3 1 (4.167%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.167%) FMCG
3 1 (4.167%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (20.83%) Windows 2000 Server
4 5 (20.83%) Windows NT
4 5 (20.83%) Windows XP
5 4 (16.67%) UNIX
6 3 (12.50%) Linux
6 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (16.67%) Validation
4 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (8.333%) Information Management
5 2 (8.333%) Change Control
5 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.333%) Computer Security
6 1 (4.167%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.167%) Information Security
6 1 (4.167%) Information Governance
6 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Time Management
6 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.167%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) MCP
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
1 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Hyper-V
2 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.167%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) SCCM
1 6 (25.00%) SCOM
2 2 (8.333%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Citrix
4 4 (16.67%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (12.50%) BMC
6 1 (4.167%) Lotus
6 1 (4.167%) Avaya
6 1 (4.167%) Cisco
6 1 (4.167%) Nortel
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