Southampton Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Southampton 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester 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 Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kegworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton 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 Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	27
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	7	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	13.46 %	11.32 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£317
% change on same period last year	-1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£23.33
Average hourly rate	£15.08	£24.17
% change on same period last year	-37.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.67	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.98	£21.07
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Operating Systems Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	52	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.054 %
Daily rates quoted	15	9
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£287
Average daily rate	£345	£291
% change on same period last year	+18.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.60	£16.87
Average hourly rate	£17.77	£18.50
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.94	£20.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows Server 2003 Hampshire

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 Southampton 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 Southampton region.

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 Southampton region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (72.22 %) Active Directory 3 8 (44.44 %) Windows XP 4 7 (38.89 %) Microsoft 5 6 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 5 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 5 (27.78 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (22.22 %) MCSE 7 4 (22.22 %) MS Office 7 4 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel 8 3 (16.67 %) Cisco 8 3 (16.67 %) LAN 8 3 (16.67 %) WAN 8 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003

9 2 (11.11 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (11.11 %) Back Office 9 2 (11.11 %) IIS 9 2 (11.11 %) Windows NT 9 2 (11.11 %) ISA Server 9 2 (11.11 %) Symantec 10 1 (5.556 %) CCNP 10 1 (5.556 %) CCNA 10 1 (5.556 %) Lotus 10 1 (5.556 %) Intranet 10 1 (5.556 %) Internet 10 1 (5.556 %) HP 10 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 10 1 (5.556 %) CCA

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 Development 1 1 (5.556 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (11.11 %) IIS 4 1 (5.556 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) MS Office 1 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (16.67 %) LAN 1 3 (16.67 %) WAN 2 1 (5.556 %) DHCP 2 1 (5.556 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (5.556 %) DNS 2 1 (5.556 %) Intranet 2 1 (5.556 %) Internet 2 1 (5.556 %) Firewall 2 1 (5.556 %) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (11.11 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 5 (27.78 %) Support Engineer 1 5 (27.78 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (16.67 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 3 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (16.67 %) Technical Support 3 2 (11.11 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 2 (11.11 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (5.556 %) Server Support Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (5.556 %) Windows Administrator 4 1 (5.556 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (44.44 %) Windows XP 3 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (27.78 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (11.11 %) Windows NT 6 1 (5.556 %) Linux 6 1 (5.556 %) UNIX 6 1 (5.556 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.11 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (11.11 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (5.556 %) Java 1 1 (5.556 %) PHP 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (22.22 %) MCSE 1 4 (22.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (5.556 %) MCP 2 1 (5.556 %) MCSA 2 1 (5.556 %) CCNP 2 1 (5.556 %) CCNA 2 1 (5.556 %) CCA 2 1 (5.556 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (5.556 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 13 (72.22 %) Active Directory 2 2 (11.11 %) ISA Server 3 1 (5.556 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 7 (38.89 %) Microsoft 2 3 (16.67 %) Cisco 3 2 (11.11 %) Symantec 4 1 (5.556 %) HP 4 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 4 1 (5.556 %) Lotus