Stevenage Windows Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Stevenage 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kegworth Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	15
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	6.250 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£309
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.41	£21.09
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Operating Systems Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	16	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£275
Average daily rate	£389	£325
% change on same period last year	+19.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£28.90
Average hourly rate	£32.25	£29.47
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.60	£30.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£22.18
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Windows Server 2003 Hertfordshire

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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) MCSE 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) HP 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio

3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) GxP 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) 3rd Line Support	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) MCSE 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) GxP
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco