Reading Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Reading 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	22	24
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	66	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.062 %
As % of the category below	23.08 %	22.51 %
Daily rates quoted	13	23
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£358
Average daily rate	£432	£425
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£492
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£337
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£48.33	£21.88
Average hourly rate	£50.83	£26.50
% change on same period last year	+91.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£53.33	£31.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.68	£24.25
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Operating Systems Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	286	271
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.381 %	0.274 %
Daily rates quoted	61	91
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£346
Average daily rate	£360	£394
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.28	£22.58
Average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.93
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.51	£27.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows Server 2003 Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 25 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

1 111 (100.00 %) Windows 2 68 (61.26 %) Security Cleared 3 46 (41.44 %) Microsoft 4 41 (36.94 %) Windows XP 5 35 (31.53 %) SC Cleared 6 34 (30.63 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 31 (27.93 %) StarTeam 8 30 (27.03 %) Borland 9 27 (24.32 %) TestDirector 10 26 (23.42 %) Government 11 23 (20.72 %) Active Directory 12 21 (18.92 %) MS Office 13 15 (13.51 %) TCP/IP 13 15 (13.51 %) Configuration Management 14 14 (12.61 %) Clustering

15 12 (10.81 %) HP 16 11 (9.910 %) Solaris 17 10 (9.009 %) Firewall 17 10 (9.009 %) XML 17 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 18 9 (8.108 %) Sun 18 9 (8.108 %) Replication 19 8 (7.207 %) MS Exchange 19 8 (7.207 %) Exchange Server 2003 20 7 (6.306 %) Test Scripting 20 7 (6.306 %) DNS 20 7 (6.306 %) SharePoint 20 7 (6.306 %) SQL 20 7 (6.306 %) C# 20 7 (6.306 %) Windows 2000

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (9.009 %) XML 2 4 (3.604 %) WebServices 2 4 (3.604 %) Software Packaging 3 2 (1.802 %) .NET 4 1 (0.901 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.901 %) COM 4 1 (0.901 %) STL 4 1 (0.901 %) XSL 4 1 (0.901 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.901 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (0.901 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.207 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (7.207 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 7 (6.306 %) SharePoint 3 4 (3.604 %) IIS 3 4 (3.604 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 3 (2.703 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (2.703 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (1.802 %) GroupWise 6 1 (0.901 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 1 (0.901 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (0.901 %) Apache 6 1 (0.901 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.901 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 21 (18.92 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.604 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.703 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.901 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.901 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 15 (13.51 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (9.009 %) Firewall 3 7 (6.306 %) DNS 4 6 (5.405 %) Network Security 5 2 (1.802 %) SAN 6 1 (0.901 %) X.500 6 1 (0.901 %) VPN 6 1 (0.901 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.802 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (0.901 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 31 (27.93 %) StarTeam 2 27 (24.32 %) TestDirector 3 3 (2.703 %) WinRunner 3 3 (2.703 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (1.802 %) MSI 4 2 (1.802 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (0.901 %) Visual Studio	General 1 26 (23.42 %) Government 2 3 (2.703 %) Military 2 3 (2.703 %) Banking 2 3 (2.703 %) Telecoms 3 2 (1.802 %) Retail 3 2 (1.802 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (0.901 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 23 (20.72 %) Tester 2 11 (9.910 %) Analyst 3 8 (7.207 %) Test Analyst 3 8 (7.207 %) Architect 4 7 (6.306 %) Systems Tester 5 6 (5.405 %) Security Architect 5 6 (5.405 %) Systems Integrator 6 5 (4.505 %) Integration Engineer 6 5 (4.505 %) Support Engineer 6 5 (4.505 %) Consultant 6 5 (4.505 %) Developer 7 4 (3.604 %) Desktop Support 7 4 (3.604 %) 3rd Line Support 7 4 (3.604 %) Server Engineer 7 4 (3.604 %) Applications Packager 7 4 (3.604 %) Windows Server Engineer 8 3 (2.703 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 3 (2.703 %) Team Leader 8 3 (2.703 %) Support Analyst 9 2 (1.802 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 14 (12.61 %) Clustering 2 9 (8.108 %) Replication 3 6 (5.405 %) PDA 4 4 (3.604 %) Management Information System 5 2 (1.802 %) CLARiiON 5 2 (1.802 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.901 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.901 %) CESG 6 1 (0.901 %) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems 1 111 (100.00 %) Windows 2 41 (36.94 %) Windows XP 3 11 (9.910 %) Solaris 4 7 (6.306 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (4.505 %) UNIX 6 2 (1.802 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.901 %) Linux 7 1 (0.901 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.901 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 68 (61.26 %) Security Cleared 2 35 (31.53 %) SC Cleared 3 15 (13.51 %) Configuration Management 4 7 (6.306 %) Disaster Recovery 4 7 (6.306 %) Test Scripting 5 6 (5.405 %) Load Balancing 5 6 (5.405 %) Automated Testing 6 5 (4.505 %) Migration 7 4 (3.604 %) Security Management 7 4 (3.604 %) OO 8 3 (2.703 %) Validation 8 3 (2.703 %) Service Management 8 3 (2.703 %) OOP 8 3 (2.703 %) BC Cleared 9 2 (1.802 %) DV Cleared 9 2 (1.802 %) ITIL 10 1 (0.901 %) Workflow 10 1 (0.901 %) Asset Management 10 1 (0.901 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (0.901 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 7 (6.306 %) C# 1 7 (6.306 %) SQL 2 6 (5.405 %) VBScript 3 2 (1.802 %) VB 3 2 (1.802 %) VC++ 4 1 (0.901 %) XPath 4 1 (0.901 %) PowerShell 4 1 (0.901 %) C++ 4 1 (0.901 %) Java 4 1 (0.901 %) JavaScript 4 1 (0.901 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (4.505 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (2.703 %) MCP 3 2 (1.802 %) MCSE 3 2 (1.802 %) Citrix Certification 3 2 (1.802 %) EMC Certification 4 1 (0.901 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (0.901 %) Degree 4 1 (0.901 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.901 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (0.901 %) MCSA 4 1 (0.901 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.901 %) CCA
System Software 1 23 (20.72 %) Active Directory 2 3 (2.703 %) NetBackup 3 2 (1.802 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (1.802 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.901 %) VMware Server	Systems Management 1 34 (30.63 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 4 (3.604 %) Netcool 3 1 (0.901 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.901 %) MIIS 3 1 (0.901 %) EMC Navisphere
Vendors 1 46 (41.44 %) Microsoft 2 30 (27.03 %) Borland 3 12 (10.81 %) HP 4 9 (8.108 %) Sun 5 7 (6.306 %) VMware 6 5 (4.505 %) EMC 7 4 (3.604 %) VERITAS 7 4 (3.604 %) Dell 7 4 (3.604 %) Oracle 7 4 (3.604 %) Cisco 8 3 (2.703 %) Lotus 8 3 (2.703 %) Citrix 9 2 (1.802 %) Novell 10 1 (0.901 %) Novadigm 10 1 (0.901 %) Red Hat 10 1 (0.901 %) Proxima 10 1 (0.901 %) Symantec 10 1 (0.901 %) IBM 10 1 (0.901 %) Progress