South East Windows Server Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Windows Server Engineer role in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Server Engineer
Location Bedfordshire Bristol City of London East of England England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire London Newcastle Upon Tyne North East Portsmouth Potters Bar Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Tyne and Wear UK Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	199	258
Rank change on same period last year	+59
Matching contract IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.139 %	0.087 %
Daily rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£270
Average daily rate	£309	£278
% change on same period last year	+11.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£267
% change on same period last year	+17.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	-
Average hourly rate	£25.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.13	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+11.86 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	7942	12642
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.85 %	15.82 %
Daily rates quoted	2034	3044
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£338
Average daily rate	£353	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	942	1652
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£22.99
Average hourly rate	£23.04	£24.53
% change on same period last year	-6.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.46	£26.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Windows Server Engineer England

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 Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Server Engineer across the South East region.

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

Windows Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server Engineer across the South East region.

Windows Server Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Hampshire	-	10	£309	-

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Windows Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title 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 with Windows Server Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 11 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 11 (73.33 %) Active Directory 3 9 (60.00 %) DNS 3 9 (60.00 %) IIS 3 9 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (53.33 %) LAN 4 8 (53.33 %) WAN 4 8 (53.33 %) SAN 5 7 (46.67 %) DHCP 5 7 (46.67 %) Health 5 7 (46.67 %) Migration 5 7 (46.67 %) Clustering 6 4 (26.67 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4 (26.67 %) HP

7 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 7 3 (20.00 %) VMware 8 2 (13.33 %) Data Migration 8 2 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 2 (13.33 %) Microsoft 8 2 (13.33 %) VERITAS 9 1 (6.667 %) Terminal Server 9 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 9 1 (6.667 %) Cisco 9 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (6.667 %) Back Office 9 1 (6.667 %) Government 9 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (6.667 %) Load Balancing

Windows Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title 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 with Windows Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.667 %) .NET 1 1 (6.667 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (60.00 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 9 (60.00 %) DNS 2 8 (53.33 %) SAN 2 8 (53.33 %) LAN 2 8 (53.33 %) WAN 3 7 (46.67 %) DHCP 4 1 (6.667 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 7 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 7 (46.67 %) Health 2 1 (6.667 %) Back Office 2 1 (6.667 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 7 (46.67 %) Clustering 2 1 (6.667 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 11 (73.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows NT 4 1 (6.667 %) Solaris 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (46.67 %) Migration 2 2 (13.33 %) Data Migration 3 1 (6.667 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.667 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) VB 1 1 (6.667 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 4 (26.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 3 1 (6.667 %) MCSA 3 1 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared
System Software 1 11 (73.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (6.667 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 4 (26.67 %) HP 2 3 (20.00 %) VMware 3 2 (13.33 %) Microsoft 3 2 (13.33 %) VERITAS 4 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 4 1 (6.667 %) Oracle 4 1 (6.667 %) Cisco