Oxford Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Oxford 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern 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 Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redcar Renfrewshire Rochdale Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	26
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	16	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	20.78 %	19.23 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£275
Average daily rate	£250	£310
% change on same period last year	-19.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£331
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.33	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£25.17	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-19.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.99	£24.62
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Operating Systems Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	77	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£270
Average daily rate	£343	£296
% change on same period last year	+15.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.48	£19.12
Average hourly rate	£22.58	£19.99
% change on same period last year	+12.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.68	£20.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows Server 2003 Oxfordshire

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

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 22 (95.65 %) Windows 2 14 (60.87 %) Active Directory 3 11 (47.83 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 10 (43.48 %) Citrix 5 9 (39.13 %) Microsoft 5 9 (39.13 %) WAN 6 8 (34.78 %) MS Exchange 7 7 (30.43 %) TCP/IP 8 6 (26.09 %) Internet 8 6 (26.09 %) LAN 9 4 (17.39 %) VMware 9 4 (17.39 %) Windows XP 9 4 (17.39 %) DNS 9 4 (17.39 %) Windows NT 9 4 (17.39 %) Windows 2000

10 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 10 3 (13.04 %) Linux 10 3 (13.04 %) MCSA 10 3 (13.04 %) Cisco 10 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (13.04 %) CheckPoint 10 3 (13.04 %) Intranet 10 3 (13.04 %) Firewall 10 3 (13.04 %) Telecoms 10 3 (13.04 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 2 (8.696 %) Backup Exec 11 2 (8.696 %) Back Office 11 2 (8.696 %) Clustering 11 2 (8.696 %) Terminal Services

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (4.348 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 11 (47.83 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (34.78 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (39.13 %) WAN 2 7 (30.43 %) TCP/IP 3 6 (26.09 %) LAN 3 6 (26.09 %) Internet 4 4 (17.39 %) DNS 5 3 (13.04 %) Firewall 5 3 (13.04 %) Intranet 6 2 (8.696 %) ADSL 6 2 (8.696 %) SAN 6 2 (8.696 %) VPN 6 2 (8.696 %) DHCP 7 1 (4.348 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 3 (13.04 %) Telecoms 2 2 (8.696 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 7 (30.43 %) Administrator 2 6 (26.09 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (21.74 %) Server Support 3 5 (21.74 %) Server Support Engineer 3 5 (21.74 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (17.39 %) Systems Support Engineer 4 4 (17.39 %) Systems Support 4 4 (17.39 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (17.39 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (17.39 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (13.04 %) Network Engineer 5 3 (13.04 %) Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (8.696 %) Service Manager 6 2 (8.696 %) Network Administrator 6 2 (8.696 %) Network Support 6 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Support 6 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.696 %) Blackberry 1 2 (8.696 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.348 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 22 (95.65 %) Windows 2 4 (17.39 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (17.39 %) Windows NT 2 4 (17.39 %) Windows XP 3 3 (13.04 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.696 %) ITIL 1 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (4.348 %) UML 2 1 (4.348 %) OOA/OOD 2 1 (4.348 %) RUP 2 1 (4.348 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (4.348 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (13.04 %) MCSA 1 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (8.696 %) MCP 2 2 (8.696 %) MCSE
System Software 1 14 (60.87 %) Active Directory 2 3 (13.04 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (8.696 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (8.696 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (4.348 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 10 (43.48 %) Citrix 2 9 (39.13 %) Microsoft 3 4 (17.39 %) VMware 4 3 (13.04 %) Cisco 4 3 (13.04 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (8.696 %) IBM 6 1 (4.348 %) Intel 6 1 (4.348 %) Symantec 6 1 (4.348 %) Lotus