North West Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Ayrshire Bacup Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bexley Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peacehaven Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Snodland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	46
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	86	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.101 %
As % of the category below	8.473 %	13.51 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£241	£204
Average daily rate	£251	£209
% change on same period last year	+19.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£261	£214
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£277
% change on same period last year	-3.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.46	£16.39
Average hourly rate	£17.38	£18.63
% change on same period last year	-6.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.30	£20.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.02	£18.94
% change on same period last year	-4.83 %
Operating Systems North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1015	703
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.338 %	0.746 %
Daily rates quoted	249	89
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£277
Average daily rate	£412	£286
% change on same period last year	+44.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	130	117
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.66	£20.42
Average hourly rate	£18.86	£22.30
% change on same period last year	-15.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.06	£24.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
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 West 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 West region.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows 2000 within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Manchester	-8	48	£394	+86.39 %
Cheshire	-29	17	-	-
Lancashire	-2	7	£150	-25.00 %
Merseyside	-11	4	£400	-

Windows 2000 England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 162 (93.10 %) Windows 2 74 (42.53 %) Microsoft 3 61 (35.06 %) Active Directory 4 59 (33.91 %) MS Office 5 47 (27.01 %) MS Exchange 6 44 (25.29 %) Windows NT 7 35 (20.11 %) MS Excel 8 34 (19.54 %) Citrix 9 33 (18.97 %) Windows XP 10 29 (16.67 %) Cisco 11 25 (14.37 %) HP 12 22 (12.64 %) Windows Server 2003 13 20 (11.49 %) Microsoft Certification 13 20 (11.49 %) MCSE 14 19 (10.92 %) Finance

15 18 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 16 17 (9.770 %) IBM 17 16 (9.195 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 18 15 (8.621 %) MetaFrame 18 15 (8.621 %) Exchange Server 2000 18 15 (8.621 %) Exchange Server 2003 19 14 (8.046 %) Problem Management 19 14 (8.046 %) MSI 20 13 (7.471 %) Terminal Server 20 13 (7.471 %) Unix 21 12 (6.897 %) Dutch Language 21 12 (6.897 %) ITIL 21 12 (6.897 %) LAN 21 12 (6.897 %) SAN 21 12 (6.897 %) NHS

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 5 (2.874 %) ODBC 2 3 (1.724 %) WebSphere 3 2 (1.149 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.575 %) .NET 4 1 (0.575 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 47 (27.01 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (8.621 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 15 (8.621 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (4.598 %) IIS 4 2 (1.149 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.575 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.575 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.575 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (0.575 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 59 (33.91 %) MS Office 2 35 (20.11 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.149 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.575 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 18 (10.34 %) TCP/IP 2 12 (6.897 %) LAN 2 12 (6.897 %) SAN 3 11 (6.322 %) DNS 3 11 (6.322 %) WAN 4 10 (5.747 %) Firewall 5 7 (4.023 %) DHCP 5 7 (4.023 %) VPN 6 6 (3.448 %) Internet 7 5 (2.874 %) VoIP 8 4 (2.299 %) WINS 9 3 (1.724 %) Broadband 10 2 (1.149 %) ADSL 10 2 (1.149 %) DSL 11 1 (0.575 %) SMS 11 1 (0.575 %) Intranet 11 1 (0.575 %) Wireless 11 1 (0.575 %) IP Telephony 11 1 (0.575 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.149 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.575 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 14 (8.046 %) MSI 2 2 (1.149 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.575 %) Visual Studio
General 1 19 (10.92 %) Finance 2 6 (3.448 %) Legal 3 5 (2.874 %) Law 3 5 (2.874 %) Billing 4 4 (2.299 %) Health 4 4 (2.299 %) Banking 5 3 (1.724 %) Government 6 2 (1.149 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.575 %) Construction 7 1 (0.575 %) Education 7 1 (0.575 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.575 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 63 (36.21 %) Analyst 2 28 (16.09 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 22 (12.64 %) Support Analyst 4 20 (11.49 %) Desktop Support 4 20 (11.49 %) Helpdesk Support 5 18 (10.34 %) 2nd Line Support 6 15 (8.621 %) Support Engineer 7 13 (7.471 %) Technical Analyst 8 12 (6.897 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 12 (6.897 %) Technical Support 9 9 (5.172 %) 3rd Line Support 10 8 (4.598 %) Desktop Engineer 11 6 (3.448 %) Desktop Support Engineer 11 6 (3.448 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 11 6 (3.448 %) Wintel Engineer 12 5 (2.874 %) Server Analyst 12 5 (2.874 %) Server Engineer 12 5 (2.874 %) Desktop Analyst 12 5 (2.874 %) Consultant 12 5 (2.874 %) Server Support
Miscellaneous 1 12 (6.897 %) NHS 1 12 (6.897 %) Dutch Language 2 11 (6.322 %) French Language 2 11 (6.322 %) German Language 3 8 (4.598 %) Italian Language 3 8 (4.598 %) Spanish Language 3 8 (4.598 %) Danish Language 3 8 (4.598 %) Finnish Language 4 6 (3.448 %) Swedish Language 5 5 (2.874 %) Blackberry 6 4 (2.299 %) Norwegian Language 6 4 (2.299 %) Portuguese Language 7 3 (1.724 %) Management Information System 7 3 (1.724 %) Clustering 7 3 (1.724 %) PDA 8 2 (1.149 %) Smartcard 9 1 (0.575 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 162 (93.10 %) Windows 2 44 (25.29 %) Windows NT 3 33 (18.97 %) Windows XP 4 22 (12.64 %) Windows Server 2003 5 13 (7.471 %) Unix 6 10 (5.747 %) NetWare 6 10 (5.747 %) AIX 7 3 (1.724 %) Solaris 7 3 (1.724 %) Linux 8 2 (1.149 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.575 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (8.046 %) Problem Management 2 12 (6.897 %) ITIL 2 12 (6.897 %) Change Management 3 6 (3.448 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (2.874 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (2.299 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (2.299 %) Document Management 5 4 (2.299 %) Migration 6 3 (1.724 %) Project Management 6 3 (1.724 %) Service Management 6 3 (1.724 %) Information Security 7 2 (1.149 %) Business Continuity 7 2 (1.149 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (1.149 %) ISMS 7 2 (1.149 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (1.149 %) Information Security Management 7 2 (1.149 %) Security Management 8 1 (0.575 %) ERP 8 1 (0.575 %) B2B 8 1 (0.575 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 10 (5.747 %) SQL 2 1 (0.575 %) VB 2 1 (0.575 %) C# 2 1 (0.575 %) C++ 2 1 (0.575 %) JavaScript 2 1 (0.575 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 20 (11.49 %) MCSE 1 20 (11.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification 3 4 (2.299 %) CCNA 4 3 (1.724 %) MCP 5 2 (1.149 %) CCNP 5 2 (1.149 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (1.149 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.575 %) CCA 6 1 (0.575 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (4.023 %) SLA 2 2 (1.149 %) QA
System Software 1 61 (35.06 %) Active Directory 2 15 (8.621 %) MetaFrame 3 13 (7.471 %) Terminal Server 4 5 (2.874 %) VMware ESX 4 5 (2.874 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 5 (2.874 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 4 (2.299 %) Backup Exec 6 3 (1.724 %) ISA Server 6 3 (1.724 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 16 (9.195 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 10 (5.747 %) ZENworks 3 3 (1.724 %) OpenView 4 2 (1.149 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 2 (1.149 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 2 (1.149 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.575 %) ServiceCenter 5 1 (0.575 %) DameWare 5 1 (0.575 %) MOM 5 1 (0.575 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 74 (42.53 %) Microsoft 2 34 (19.54 %) Citrix 3 29 (16.67 %) Cisco 4 25 (14.37 %) HP 5 17 (9.770 %) IBM 6 11 (6.322 %) VMware 7 4 (2.299 %) Compaq 7 4 (2.299 %) Intel 8 3 (1.724 %) Oracle 8 3 (1.724 %) Novell 8 3 (1.724 %) Dell 8 3 (1.724 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (1.149 %) Symantec 9 2 (1.149 %) McAfee Security 9 2 (1.149 %) EMC 9 2 (1.149 %) VERITAS 9 2 (1.149 %) Lotus 10 1 (0.575 %) Apple 10 1 (0.575 %) Avaya 10 1 (0.575 %) Sun