The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Server 2003 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 Portsmouth 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 2003
Rank 15 19 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 2 1 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 2.469% 0.980% 17.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 3.571% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
Average daily rate - £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £23.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -
All Operating Systems
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12 28 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 14.81% 27.45% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 29
Average daily rate £370 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 18
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% -26.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Server 2003
Hampshire

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Portsmouth Windows Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth Windows Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth Windows Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 2 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (25.00%) Intel
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli NetView
4 1 (25.00%) Netcool
4 1 (25.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (25.00%) HACMP
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (25.00%) Netcool
2 1 (25.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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