Shropshire Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Shropshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grangemouth Grays Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thirsk Thurrock Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	28
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	9	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	16.98 %	6.000 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£350
Average daily rate	£322	£413
% change on same period last year	-21.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£319
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£14.00	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-39.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.19	£22.12
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Operating Systems Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	53	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	22	13
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£265
Average daily rate	£352	£289
% change on same period last year	+21.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.63	£14.38
Average hourly rate	£19.06	£15.17
% change on same period last year	+25.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£15.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.70	£22.66
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Windows Server 2003 West Midlands

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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Shropshire region.

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Telford	-2	7	£322	-21.96 %

Windows Server 2003 West Midlands

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 11 (100.00 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 3 3 (27.27 %) SQL 3 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 4 2 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (18.18 %) CA Clarity 4 2 (18.18 %) Migration 4 2 (18.18 %) Solaris 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 4 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server

4 2 (18.18 %) Java 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 5 1 (9.091 %) N-Tier 5 1 (9.091 %) SAN 5 1 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (9.091 %) Legato 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (9.091 %) ISA Server 5 1 (9.091 %) Sophos 5 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 1 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (9.091 %) HPUX

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (9.091 %) IIS	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 1 2 (18.18 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) WAN 1 1 (9.091 %) VPN 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN 1 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 1 1 (9.091 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Mart
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Analyst 1 4 (36.36 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Solutions Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) N-Tier 1 1 (9.091 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 11 (100.00 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (18.18 %) Solaris 4 1 (9.091 %) Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) HPUX 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Migration 1 2 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (9.091 %) WFM 2 1 (9.091 %) Release Management 2 1 (9.091 %) BC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL 2 2 (18.18 %) Java 3 1 (9.091 %) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) QA	System Software 1 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 1 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (9.091 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Legato 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (9.091 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 3 1 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (9.091 %) Sophos