Sheffield Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Sheffield 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 2000 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	21
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	17	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	16.50 %	8.725 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£198	£200
Average daily rate	£200	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£203	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£296
% change on same period last year	-11.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.63	£12.28
Average hourly rate	£26.27	£13.64
% change on same period last year	+92.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.91	£15.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.24	£18.03
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Operating Systems Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	103	149
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.136 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	8	37
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£296
Average daily rate	£264	£316
% change on same period last year	-16.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.12	£28.45
Average hourly rate	£27.94	£29.22
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£29.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Windows 2000 South Yorkshire

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 22 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 20 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 3 20 (66.67 %) MCSE 4 16 (53.33 %) SAN 5 13 (43.33 %) Middleware 5 13 (43.33 %) Back Office 6 10 (33.33 %) Windows XP 7 9 (30.00 %) Microsoft 8 7 (23.33 %) Intel 8 7 (23.33 %) Active Directory 9 6 (20.00 %) HP 9 6 (20.00 %) MS Excel 9 6 (20.00 %) Change Management 10 4 (13.33 %) Finance

10 4 (13.33 %) Windows NT 11 3 (10.00 %) MS Office 11 3 (10.00 %) MCP 11 3 (10.00 %) Novell 11 3 (10.00 %) GroupWise 11 3 (10.00 %) Legal 12 2 (6.667 %) Telecoms 12 2 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 12 2 (6.667 %) ERP 12 2 (6.667 %) VPN 12 2 (6.667 %) SLA 13 1 (3.333 %) C 13 1 (3.333 %) DNS 13 1 (3.333 %) Broadband

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 13 (43.33 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.00 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 6 (20.00 %) MS Excel 2 3 (10.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 16 (53.33 %) SAN 2 2 (6.667 %) VPN 3 1 (3.333 %) DNS 3 1 (3.333 %) Broadband 3 1 (3.333 %) LAN 3 1 (3.333 %) WAN 3 1 (3.333 %) DHCP 3 1 (3.333 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.333 %) Firewall
General 1 13 (43.33 %) Back Office 2 4 (13.33 %) Finance 3 3 (10.00 %) Legal 4 2 (6.667 %) Telecoms 5 1 (3.333 %) Law	Job Titles 1 13 (43.33 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (26.67 %) 3rd Line Support 3 6 (20.00 %) Analyst 4 4 (13.33 %) Server Support 4 4 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) Administrator 5 3 (10.00 %) IT Support Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) Support Technician 6 2 (6.667 %) Service Analyst 6 2 (6.667 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 2 (6.667 %) Wintel Support 6 2 (6.667 %) Server Support Technician 6 2 (6.667 %) Windows Administrator 6 2 (6.667 %) Wintel Engineer 6 2 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 2 (6.667 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Junior 7 1 (3.333 %) Tester 7 1 (3.333 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Network Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 22 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (33.33 %) Windows XP 4 4 (13.33 %) Windows NT 5 2 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (3.333 %) NetWare 6 1 (3.333 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.00 %) Change Management 2 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 2 2 (6.667 %) ERP 3 1 (3.333 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.333 %) C
Qualifications 1 20 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 1 20 (66.67 %) MCSE 2 3 (10.00 %) MCP 3 1 (3.333 %) MCSA 3 1 (3.333 %) CNE 3 1 (3.333 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) SLA
System Software 1 7 (23.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.333 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) ZENworks 1 1 (3.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 9 (30.00 %) Microsoft 2 7 (23.33 %) Intel 3 6 (20.00 %) HP 4 3 (10.00 %) Novell 5 1 (3.333 %) Compaq 5 1 (3.333 %) VMware