The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scottish Borders 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 17 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 Scottish Borders 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2008 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Scottish Borders
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows Server 2008
Scotland

Windows Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scottish Borders Windows Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2008
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Windows Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss