The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows 2000 over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
Rank 33 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 2 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.664% - 4.233%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.273% - 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £173 - £313
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 - £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £211 - £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £205 £291
% change year-on-year
+52.43% -29.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £23.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
88 43 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 29.24% 18.22% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 15 15
Average daily rate £275 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £211 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £360 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 20
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £9.94 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows 2000
Hampshire

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (20.00%) Citrix
5 1 (20.00%) NetApp
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (20.00%) Sage
5 1 (20.00%) EPoS
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (20.00%) WSUS
5 1 (20.00%) CMDB
5 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Support
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Sage
Southampton, South East
This role for a Windows Desktop support Engineer is to join a small but busy team providing 1st / 2nd and some 3rd level support at a satellite office...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £120 - £130 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013