Northamptonshire Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Northamptonshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	19
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	4	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	6.452 %	20.90 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.83
Average hourly rate	-	£20.83
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.68	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Operating Systems Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	62	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	16	6
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£287
Average daily rate	£292	£294
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.79	£17.24
Average hourly rate	£19.30	£19.09
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.80	£20.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Server 2003 East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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 Northamptonshire region.

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Northampton	-11	4	-	-

Windows Server 2003 East Midlands

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 20 (90.91 %) Windows 2 17 (77.27 %) Active Directory 3 8 (36.36 %) Citrix 4 7 (31.82 %) SAN 4 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 4 7 (31.82 %) NetWare 4 7 (31.82 %) MS Exchange 4 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (27.27 %) SharePoint 5 6 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 6 (27.27 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (27.27 %) Dell 5 6 (27.27 %) EMC 6 5 (22.73 %) MOM 6 5 (22.73 %) SoftGrid

7 4 (18.18 %) Network Design 7 4 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 4 (18.18 %) Network Security 7 4 (18.18 %) GroupWise 7 4 (18.18 %) LAN 7 4 (18.18 %) WAN 7 4 (18.18 %) NDS 8 3 (13.64 %) Novell 8 3 (13.64 %) Migration 8 3 (13.64 %) VMware 8 3 (13.64 %) DirXML 8 3 (13.64 %) Altiris 8 3 (13.64 %) AppSense 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL 9 2 (9.091 %) UNIX

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 1 (4.545 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (31.82 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (27.27 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (27.27 %) SharePoint 3 4 (18.18 %) GroupWise 3 4 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (4.545 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (22.73 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 7 (31.82 %) SAN 2 4 (18.18 %) LAN 2 4 (18.18 %) WAN 2 4 (18.18 %) Network Security 3 1 (4.545 %) Firewall	General 1 1 (4.545 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (18.18 %) Architect 1 4 (18.18 %) 3rd Line Support 1 4 (18.18 %) Infrastructure Architect 1 4 (18.18 %) Security Architect 1 4 (18.18 %) Network Architect 2 2 (9.091 %) 1st Line Support 2 2 (9.091 %) Technical Specialist 2 2 (9.091 %) Analyst 2 2 (9.091 %) Technical Architect 2 2 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 2 2 (9.091 %) Support Technician 2 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (4.545 %) Technical Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Systems Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 3 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 3 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 20 (90.91 %) Windows 2 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 2 7 (31.82 %) NetWare 3 2 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 1 (4.545 %) Mac OS X 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (18.18 %) Network Design 2 3 (13.64 %) Migration 3 1 (4.545 %) ITIL 3 1 (4.545 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (4.545 %) MCSE 1 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (4.545 %) CNA 1 1 (4.545 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 17 (77.27 %) Active Directory 2 4 (18.18 %) NDS 3 1 (4.545 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (4.545 %) ISA Server 3 1 (4.545 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 6 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (22.73 %) MOM 3 3 (13.64 %) DirXML	Vendors 1 8 (36.36 %) Citrix 2 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 3 6 (27.27 %) Dell 3 6 (27.27 %) EMC 4 3 (13.64 %) Novell 4 3 (13.64 %) VMware 4 3 (13.64 %) AppSense 4 3 (13.64 %) Altiris 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco 5 1 (4.545 %) Lotus 5 1 (4.545 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (4.545 %) Nokia 5 1 (4.545 %) HP