North West Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 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 jobs that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	31
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	100	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.141 %	0.174 %
As % of the category below	16.23 %	18.45 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£237
Average daily rate	£326	£248
% change on same period last year	+31.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£318
% change on same period last year	-2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.90	£18.55
Average hourly rate	£24.37	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+23.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.85	£20.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.86	£21.02
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Operating Systems North West
Matching contract IT job ads	616	932
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.871 %	0.943 %
Daily rates quoted	122	140
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£305
Average daily rate	£352	£318
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	147	175
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.94	£18.13
Average hourly rate	£21.71	£19.31
% change on same period last year	+12.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.48	£20.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.97	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Windows Server 2003 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 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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the North West region.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 West region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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	-17	28	£225	-9.81 %
Cheshire	-1	27	£346	+43.46 %
Lancashire	+1	13	-	-
Merseyside	-19	12	-	-
Cumbria	+5	10	-	-

Windows Server 2003 England

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 235 (100.00 %) Windows 2 114 (48.51 %) Active Directory 3 71 (30.21 %) Citrix 3 71 (30.21 %) Microsoft 4 70 (29.79 %) Windows 2000 5 53 (22.55 %) Windows XP 5 53 (22.55 %) Microsoft Certification 6 50 (21.28 %) SAN 7 48 (20.43 %) MS Exchange 8 47 (20.00 %) MCSE 9 42 (17.87 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 40 (17.02 %) SQL 11 39 (16.60 %) Windows NT 12 38 (16.17 %) LAN 13 37 (15.74 %) MS Office

14 30 (12.77 %) VMware 14 30 (12.77 %) WAN 15 27 (11.49 %) HP 16 26 (11.06 %) IIS 16 26 (11.06 %) Exchange Server 2003 17 22 (9.362 %) ITIL 18 21 (8.936 %) Clustering 18 21 (8.936 %) Finance 19 20 (8.511 %) Migration 19 20 (8.511 %) SQL Server 19 20 (8.511 %) Dell 19 20 (8.511 %) Citrix Presentation Server 20 19 (8.085 %) TCP/IP 21 18 (7.660 %) MS Excel 22 14 (5.957 %) Firewall

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Development 1 11 (4.681 %) COM+ 1 11 (4.681 %) DCOM 2 4 (1.702 %) .NET 3 2 (0.851 %) HTML 3 2 (0.851 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (0.851 %) WMI 3 2 (0.851 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 2 (0.851 %) Application Packaging 3 2 (0.851 %) CSS 4 1 (0.426 %) SOAP 4 1 (0.426 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.426 %) XML 4 1 (0.426 %) ODBC 4 1 (0.426 %) ADSI 4 1 (0.426 %) OLE 4 1 (0.426 %) WinForms 4 1 (0.426 %) Flex 2 4 1 (0.426 %) Adobe Flex 4 1 (0.426 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (0.426 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 48 (20.43 %) MS Exchange 2 26 (11.06 %) IIS 2 26 (11.06 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (2.979 %) Lotus Notes 3 7 (2.979 %) SharePoint 4 5 (2.128 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 4 (1.702 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (1.277 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 3 (1.277 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.426 %) Office Project Server 7 1 (0.426 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (0.426 %) CMS 7 1 (0.426 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (0.426 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.426 %) Content Management Server 7 1 (0.426 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 37 (15.74 %) MS Office 2 18 (7.660 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.426 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.426 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (0.426 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.426 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (0.851 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 50 (21.28 %) SAN 2 38 (16.17 %) LAN 3 30 (12.77 %) WAN 4 19 (8.085 %) TCP/IP 5 14 (5.957 %) VPN 5 14 (5.957 %) Firewall 6 13 (5.532 %) DNS 7 11 (4.681 %) POP3 7 11 (4.681 %) SMTP 7 11 (4.681 %) DHCP 7 11 (4.681 %) SMS 8 5 (2.128 %) VoIP 8 5 (2.128 %) Ethernet 8 5 (2.128 %) IP Telephony 9 4 (1.702 %) Wireless 9 4 (1.702 %) Extranet 10 3 (1.277 %) Network Security 11 2 (0.851 %) MPLS 11 2 (0.851 %) Broadband 11 2 (0.851 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (8.511 %) SQL Server 2 9 (3.830 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (3.404 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (2.553 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 6 (2.553 %) DTS 5 5 (2.128 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (2.128 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (0.851 %) TOAD 6 2 (0.851 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (0.851 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.426 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.426 %) Crystal Enterprise 7 1 (0.426 %) OLTP 7 1 (0.426 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 2 (0.851 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (0.851 %) MSI 2 1 (0.426 %) InstallShield 2 1 (0.426 %) NUnit 2 1 (0.426 %) Flash	General 1 21 (8.936 %) Finance 2 8 (3.404 %) Government 3 5 (2.128 %) Education 3 5 (2.128 %) Telecoms 3 5 (2.128 %) Banking 4 4 (1.702 %) Manufacturing 5 3 (1.277 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (0.851 %) Health 6 2 (0.851 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.426 %) Retail 7 1 (0.426 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 38 (16.17 %) Analyst 2 35 (14.89 %) Support Engineer 3 26 (11.06 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 23 (9.787 %) Support Analyst 5 22 (9.362 %) Server Engineer 6 16 (6.809 %) 3rd Line Support 7 14 (5.957 %) Desktop Support 8 12 (5.106 %) Consultant 9 11 (4.681 %) Server Specialist 9 11 (4.681 %) Exchange Engineer 10 10 (4.255 %) 2nd Line Support 11 9 (3.830 %) Helpdesk Support 11 9 (3.830 %) Development Specialist 11 9 (3.830 %) Systems Engineer 11 9 (3.830 %) Applications Specialist 11 9 (3.830 %) Server Support 11 9 (3.830 %) Citrix Specialist 12 8 (3.404 %) Technical Support 12 8 (3.404 %) Helpdesk Analyst 12 8 (3.404 %) DBA	Miscellaneous 1 21 (8.936 %) Clustering 2 8 (3.404 %) Replication 2 8 (3.404 %) PDA 3 7 (2.979 %) Blackberry 4 3 (1.277 %) VAX 4 3 (1.277 %) Video Conferencing 5 2 (0.851 %) NHS 5 2 (0.851 %) AS400 6 1 (0.426 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.426 %) CLARiiON 6 1 (0.426 %) Statistics 6 1 (0.426 %) Danish Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Dutch Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Finnish Language 6 1 (0.426 %) French Language 6 1 (0.426 %) German Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Italian Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Norwegian Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Portuguese Language 6 1 (0.426 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 235 (100.00 %) Windows 2 70 (29.79 %) Windows 2000 3 53 (22.55 %) Windows XP 4 42 (17.87 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 39 (16.60 %) Windows NT 6 11 (4.681 %) Windows Vista 7 4 (1.702 %) UNIX 7 4 (1.702 %) VMS 7 4 (1.702 %) NetWare 8 3 (1.277 %) Solaris 9 2 (0.851 %) Linux 9 2 (0.851 %) AIX 9 2 (0.851 %) Windows Mobile 9 2 (0.851 %) Red Hat Linux 9 2 (0.851 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (9.362 %) ITIL 2 20 (8.511 %) Migration 3 13 (5.532 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (4.255 %) SC Cleared 5 9 (3.830 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (2.553 %) Disaster Recovery 7 5 (2.128 %) Project Management 8 4 (1.702 %) Service Management 8 4 (1.702 %) CAD 8 4 (1.702 %) ERP 8 4 (1.702 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (1.277 %) Change Management 9 3 (1.277 %) Technical Architecture 9 3 (1.277 %) Unit Testing 9 3 (1.277 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (0.851 %) PRINCE 10 2 (0.851 %) Document Management 10 2 (0.851 %) Network Load Balancing 10 2 (0.851 %) Problem Management 10 2 (0.851 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 40 (17.02 %) SQL 2 4 (1.702 %) VBScript 3 3 (1.277 %) VB 3 3 (1.277 %) Pascal 3 3 (1.277 %) Uniface 3 3 (1.277 %) C# 3 3 (1.277 %) DCL 4 2 (0.851 %) PowerShell 4 2 (0.851 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (0.851 %) C 5 1 (0.426 %) C++ 5 1 (0.426 %) DHTML 5 1 (0.426 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.426 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (0.426 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 53 (22.55 %) Microsoft Certification 2 47 (20.00 %) MCSE 3 13 (5.532 %) MCP 4 6 (2.553 %) Citrix Certification 5 4 (1.702 %) MCITP 5 4 (1.702 %) Degree 5 4 (1.702 %) MCDBA 5 4 (1.702 %) ISEB 6 3 (1.277 %) CCA 6 3 (1.277 %) CCEA 7 2 (0.851 %) MCSA 7 2 (0.851 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 1 (0.426 %) HNC 8 1 (0.426 %) HND 8 1 (0.426 %) CCNA 8 1 (0.426 %) Cisco Certification 8 1 (0.426 %) CNA 8 1 (0.426 %) CNE 8 1 (0.426 %) Novell Certification 8 1 (0.426 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.702 %) SLA 2 2 (0.851 %) QA 3 1 (0.426 %) ISO9001 3 1 (0.426 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 114 (48.51 %) Active Directory 2 20 (8.511 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 11 (4.681 %) MetaFrame 3 11 (4.681 %) Backup Exec 4 10 (4.255 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 6 (2.553 %) VMware ESX 5 6 (2.553 %) Terminal Services 6 3 (1.277 %) ISA Server 6 3 (1.277 %) VMware Workstation 7 2 (0.851 %) Oracle RMAN 7 2 (0.851 %) Terminal Server 7 2 (0.851 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 2 (0.851 %) Novell eDirectory 8 1 (0.426 %) VMware Server 8 1 (0.426 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 10 (4.255 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (2.979 %) MOM 3 3 (1.277 %) SCCM 3 3 (1.277 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 3 (1.277 %) Tivoli 4 2 (0.851 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 2 (0.851 %) SCOM 5 1 (0.426 %) ServiceCenter 5 1 (0.426 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 1 (0.426 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.426 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 71 (30.21 %) Microsoft 1 71 (30.21 %) Citrix 2 30 (12.77 %) VMware 3 27 (11.49 %) HP 4 20 (8.511 %) Dell 5 14 (5.957 %) Cisco 6 13 (5.532 %) EMC 7 7 (2.979 %) Oracle 7 7 (2.979 %) VERITAS 7 7 (2.979 %) Lotus 8 6 (2.553 %) IBM 9 4 (1.702 %) Compaq 9 4 (1.702 %) Intel 10 3 (1.277 %) NetApp 10 3 (1.277 %) Novell 11 2 (0.851 %) Red Hat 11 2 (0.851 %) Symantec 11 2 (0.851 %) Altiris 12 1 (0.426 %) Fujitsu Siemens 12 1 (0.426 %) Remedy