Swindon Windows 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Swindon 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 2000 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen 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 Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	13
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	4	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	5.128 %	32.26 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£110
Average daily rate	-	£115
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£299
% change on same period last year	-8.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.33	£16.86
Average hourly rate	£20.83	£18.75
% change on same period last year	+11.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.33	£20.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.71	£18.23
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Operating Systems Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	78	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.110 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	15	20
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£235
Average daily rate	£354	£246
% change on same period last year	+43.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.26	£22.82
Average hourly rate	£24.96	£24.51
% change on same period last year	+1.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.66	£26.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Windows 2000 Wiltshire

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Swindon region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Swindon region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (53.33 %) Windows XP 2 8 (53.33 %) Microsoft 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (40.00 %) Windows NT 5 5 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (26.67 %) ITIL 7 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 7 3 (20.00 %) Active Directory 7 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (13.33 %) McAfee Security 8 2 (13.33 %) SLA 8 2 (13.33 %) LAN 8 2 (13.33 %) WAN 8 2 (13.33 %) MCP

8 2 (13.33 %) MS Office 8 2 (13.33 %) Migration 8 2 (13.33 %) VMware 8 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (13.33 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (6.667 %) Spring 9 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (6.667 %) Software Packaging 9 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 1 (6.667 %) Communications Security 9 1 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 9 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (6.667 %) JPA 9 1 (6.667 %) VMware Infrastructure

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 Development 1 1 (6.667 %) JDBC 1 1 (6.667 %) JSP 1 1 (6.667 %) JavaBeans 1 1 (6.667 %) Spring 1 1 (6.667 %) Software Packaging 1 1 (6.667 %) JPA 1 1 (6.667 %) Drools	Application Platforms 1 5 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (13.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (6.667 %) JBoss 3 1 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (13.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (13.33 %) LAN 1 2 (13.33 %) WAN 2 1 (6.667 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) Ant 1 1 (6.667 %) Log4j
General 1 1 (6.667 %) Back Office 1 1 (6.667 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (26.67 %) 2nd Line Support 2 4 (26.67 %) Analyst 3 3 (20.00 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (13.33 %) Field Engineer 4 2 (13.33 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (13.33 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (13.33 %) Field Support Engineer 4 2 (13.33 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Manager 5 1 (6.667 %) Java Programmer 5 1 (6.667 %) Developer Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Server Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Server Support Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Java Analyst Programmer 5 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Java Developer 5 1 (6.667 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 15 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (53.33 %) Windows XP 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (40.00 %) Windows NT 5 2 (13.33 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (26.67 %) ITIL 2 2 (13.33 %) Migration 3 1 (6.667 %) Communications Security 3 1 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (6.667 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (6.667 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) C 1 1 (6.667 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (20.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (13.33 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (13.33 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (20.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.667 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (6.667 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (6.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 8 (53.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (13.33 %) McAfee Security 2 2 (13.33 %) VMware 3 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.667 %) Novell 3 1 (6.667 %) VERITAS 3 1 (6.667 %) Lotus 3 1 (6.667 %) Symantec