The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 23 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 Peterborough 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank 10 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 6 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 6.316% 2.273% 3.604%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 7.692% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £223 - £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+9.33% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
24 26 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 25.26% 29.55% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 15
Average daily rate £223 £315 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.36% +6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £238 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 10
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £16.00 £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Server 2008
Cambridgeshire

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2008 across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Windows Server 2008 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (93.33%) Windows 7
3 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (73.33%) MS Exchange
5 9 (60.00%) HP
5 9 (60.00%) Cisco
5 9 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 9 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (53.33%) Firewall
7 7 (46.67%) Wireless
7 7 (46.67%) ITIL
7 7 (46.67%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (40.00%) Altiris
8 6 (40.00%) Migration
9 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
10 3 (20.00%) Intranet
10 3 (20.00%) Internet
10 3 (20.00%) Citrix
10 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (20.00%) Lync
10 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
10 3 (20.00%) Riverbed
10 3 (20.00%) Exinda
11 2 (13.33%) VMware
12 1 (6.667%) Change Management
12 1 (6.667%) ARCserve

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 (6.667%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (73.33%) MS Exchange
2 9 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (20.00%) Lync
4 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) Wireless
2 7 (46.67%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (20.00%) Intranet
3 3 (20.00%) Internet
3 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.667%) LAN
4 1 (6.667%) WAN
4 1 (6.667%) HTTP
4 1 (6.667%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Network Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Support
5 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.667%) Junior
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) IT Support
5 1 (6.667%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (93.33%) Windows 7
3 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) Change Management
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) ARCserve
1 1 (6.667%) Backup Exec
1 1 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) HP
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Altiris
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Riverbed
4 3 (20.00%) Exinda
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 1 (6.667%) Sophos
6 1 (6.667%) Intel