The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 17 23 10
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 9 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 5.921% 2.222% 11.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 10.53% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
Average daily rate £363 - £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -7.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+7.89% +8.57%
All Operating Systems
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27 38 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 17.76% 21.11% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 23
Average daily rate £363 £270 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.25% -28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £95 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £363 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 3
Average hourly rate £18.00 £13.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £18.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
Yorkshire

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
York - 7 £363 -
Harrogate - 2 - -
Windows Server 2008
Yorkshire

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco
5 6 (50.00%) vSphere
6 4 (33.33%) Firewall
6 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (33.33%) Debian
6 4 (33.33%) Clustering
6 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (33.33%) Puppet
6 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (33.33%) BIG-IP
6 4 (33.33%) CentOS
6 4 (33.33%) Nagios
6 4 (33.33%) Juniper
6 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
6 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
6 4 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (33.33%) Apache
6 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
6 4 (33.33%) IIS
6 4 (33.33%) F5
7 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (25.00%) Oracle
7 3 (25.00%) EMC
7 3 (25.00%) HP
7 3 (25.00%) Cacti

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (25.00%) NAS
2 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.333%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) CruiseControl
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
General
1 1 (8.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Build Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (33.33%) Debian
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
4 1 (8.333%) HPUX
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
1 1 (8.333%) ITIL
1 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Java
1 1 (8.333%) PHP
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.333%) XenApp
4 1 (8.333%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Puppet
1 4 (33.33%) Nagios
2 3 (25.00%) Cacti
3 1 (8.333%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Juniper
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (33.33%) F5
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (25.00%) EMC
4 3 (25.00%) HP
5 1 (8.333%) Twitter
5 1 (8.333%) Citrix
5 1 (8.333%) Dell
5 1 (8.333%) IBM
5 1 (8.333%) Tangosol
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