The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 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 Scotland 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 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 118 83 104
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +21
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 4 26 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.162% 0.984% 0.438%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.712% 5.285% 2.454%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 4
Average daily rate - £325 £224
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +45.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £215 £275
% change year-on-year
+51.16% -21.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
Average hourly rate - £24.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +41.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
562 492 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.73% 18.62% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 193 162
Average daily rate £360 £321 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.11% +3.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £120 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 40 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.75 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.86% +33.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.59 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £31.10 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows 2000
UK

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Scotland Windows 2000 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +1 3 - -
Glasgow -25 1 - -
Windows 2000
UK

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows 2000 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 2000.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
4 5 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
6 3 (30.00%) Terminal Services
6 3 (30.00%) MS Office
7 2 (20.00%) Banking
7 2 (20.00%) WMI
7 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
7 2 (20.00%) Network Security
7 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) VBScript
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (20.00%) Citrix
7 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
8 1 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
8 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
8 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (30.00%) MS Office
3 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Intranet
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
4 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) IT Support
4 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (10.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) Windows NT
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (20.00%) VBScript
2 1 (10.00%) VB
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (10.00%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) WMI
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Lotus
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle