The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 2000 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 358 335 226
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -109
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 181 263 475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.390% 0.451% 0.778%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.807% 2.226% 3.733%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 104 216
Average daily rate £330 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.90% -7.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £148 £135 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £205 £291
% change year-on-year
+52.43% -29.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 84
Average hourly rate £15.50 £15.78 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.77% +5.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £37.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +6.89%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1187 1248
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

Windows 2000
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Windows 2000 Daily Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows 2000 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows 2000 within the UK.

Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Trend

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows 2000 Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows 2000
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
England -7 172 £343 +14.16%
London +10 66 £365 +8.14%
South East -10 47 £334 +75.65%
Hampshire +3 20 £350 +2.94%
City of London +1 14 £325 -16.06%
North West +11 12 £332 +74.47%
West Midlands +7 12 £250 +25.00%
East Midlands +4 12 £175 -22.13%
Yorkshire +8 11 - -
Berkshire +9 10 £275 +6.79%
East of England +19 8 £110 -42.10%
Cheshire +5 7 £332 -
West Yorkshire +5 7 - -
Warwickshire - 7 £250 -
Oxfordshire +6 6 £145 -57.03%
Scotland -27 6 £136 -58.15%
Reading +16 5 £300 +39.53%
Manchester +8 5 - -
Nottinghamshire 0 5 - -
Bracknell -12 5 £165 -48.43%
Pontefract - 5 - -
Cambridgeshire +13 4 - -
South West +12 4 £316 -12.22%
Milton Keynes +5 4 - -
Buckinghamshire +5 4 - -
Oxford +4 4 - -
Nottingham -1 4 - -
Chester - 4 - -
Peterborough +6 3 - -
Edinburgh 0 3 - -

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 350 (100.00%) Windows
2 200 (57.14%) Windows XP
2 200 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 178 (50.86%) Microsoft
4 150 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 134 (38.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 114 (32.57%) Citrix
7 113 (32.29%) VMware
8 109 (31.14%) MS Office
9 83 (23.71%) HP
10 81 (23.14%) Windows 7
11 73 (20.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 73 (20.86%) MS Exchange
12 68 (19.43%) SAN
13 64 (18.29%) SQL Server
14 61 (17.43%) SQL
14 61 (17.43%) ITIL
15 60 (17.14%) Windows NT
16 59 (16.86%) MS Excel
17 58 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
18 53 (15.14%) Windows Vista
19 49 (14.00%) MCSE
20 48 (13.71%) Oracle
20 48 (13.71%) TCP/IP
21 47 (13.43%) DNS
21 47 (13.43%) Internet
22 45 (12.86%) Blackberry
23 41 (11.71%) Clustering
23 41 (11.71%) UNIX
24 40 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 37 (10.57%) .NET
2 26 (7.429%) ASP.NET
3 20 (5.714%) Web Services
4 15 (4.286%) ADSI
5 13 (3.714%) Middleware
6 12 (3.429%) HTML
7 8 (2.286%) JSP
8 4 (1.143%) CSS
9 3 (0.857%) ASP
10 2 (0.571%) XML
11 1 (0.286%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.286%) WinForms
11 1 (0.286%) COM
11 1 (0.286%) ADO.NET
11 1 (0.286%) XHTML
11 1 (0.286%) WCF
11 1 (0.286%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 73 (20.86%) MS Exchange
2 39 (11.14%) IIS
3 37 (10.57%) Exchange Server 2003
4 32 (9.143%) Exchange Server 2007
5 30 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
6 19 (5.429%) Apache
7 18 (5.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 15 (4.286%) SharePoint
9 11 (3.143%) Lotus Notes
10 10 (2.857%) MQSeries
10 10 (2.857%) Rendezvous
11 8 (2.286%) Oracle Application Server
12 6 (1.714%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (1.429%) WorkSite
14 4 (1.143%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.857%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.857%) Site Server
15 3 (0.857%) GroupWise
16 2 (0.571%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.571%) Lync
Applications
1 109 (31.14%) MS Office
2 59 (16.86%) MS Excel
3 4 (1.143%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.857%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (0.571%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.286%) MS Project
6 1 (0.286%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.857%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.571%) assyst
2 2 (0.571%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.286%) Agresso
3 1 (0.286%) Academy Housing
Communications & Networking
1 68 (19.43%) SAN
2 48 (13.71%) TCP/IP
3 47 (13.43%) DNS
3 47 (13.43%) Internet
4 29 (8.286%) DHCP
5 28 (8.000%) NAS
6 26 (7.429%) VPN
7 24 (6.857%) Firewall
8 21 (6.000%) LAN
9 20 (5.714%) WAN
10 15 (4.286%) FTP
11 7 (2.000%) Wireless
11 7 (2.000%) BIG-IP
12 6 (1.714%) Ethernet
13 5 (1.429%) Broadband
13 5 (1.429%) GPRS
14 4 (1.143%) Network Security
14 4 (1.143%) SMS
14 4 (1.143%) HTTPS
15 3 (0.857%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.29%) SQL Server
2 40 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 37 (10.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 27 (7.714%) SQL Server 2000
5 10 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (1.714%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (1.429%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (1.143%) DTS
8 4 (1.143%) MS Access
8 4 (1.143%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.143%) MySQL
9 3 (0.857%) SQL Server 7
10 1 (0.286%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.286%) GIS
10 1 (0.286%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.286%) TOAD
10 1 (0.286%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.286%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (0.286%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.286%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.571%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (1.714%) LoadRunner
3 5 (1.429%) MSI
3 5 (1.429%) InstallShield
3 5 (1.429%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.429%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (1.143%) WinRunner
5 3 (0.857%) Bugzilla
5 3 (0.857%) Selenium
6 2 (0.571%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.286%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.286%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.286%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.286%) FrontPage
7 1 (0.286%) JIRA
General
1 37 (10.57%) Finance
2 19 (5.429%) Banking
3 10 (2.857%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.000%) Law
5 6 (1.714%) Local Government
6 5 (1.429%) Billing
7 4 (1.143%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.857%) Legal
8 3 (0.857%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (0.857%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.571%) Retail
9 2 (0.571%) Back Office
10 1 (0.286%) Front Office
10 1 (0.286%) Publishing
10 1 (0.286%) Games
10 1 (0.286%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 104 (29.71%) Analyst
2 60 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 52 (14.86%) Support Analyst
4 37 (10.57%) Desktop Support
5 29 (8.286%) 2nd Line Support
6 27 (7.714%) IT Support
6 27 (7.714%) Service Desk Analyst
6 27 (7.714%) Service Analyst
7 26 (7.429%) 3rd Line Support
7 26 (7.429%) Desktop Engineer
7 26 (7.429%) Wintel Engineer
8 22 (6.286%) 1st Line Support
9 20 (5.714%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 20 (5.714%) Server Support
10 19 (5.429%) Technical Support
11 18 (5.143%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (5.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 18 (5.143%) Administrator
12 15 (4.286%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (4.000%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.86%) Blackberry
2 41 (11.71%) Clustering
3 10 (2.857%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.286%) CLARiiON
5 7 (2.000%) NHS
5 7 (2.000%) Computer Science
6 4 (1.143%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.143%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.143%) Thin Client
7 3 (0.857%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.857%) AS400
7 3 (0.857%) N-Tier
7 3 (0.857%) iPad
7 3 (0.857%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.857%) Mathematics
8 2 (0.571%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.571%) PDA
8 2 (0.571%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.571%) Firmware
9 1 (0.286%) NPfIT
Operating Systems
1 350 (100.00%) Windows
2 200 (57.14%) Windows XP
2 200 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 134 (38.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 81 (23.14%) Windows 7
5 60 (17.14%) Windows NT
6 53 (15.14%) Windows Vista
7 41 (11.71%) UNIX
8 39 (11.14%) Linux
9 28 (8.000%) Windows 2000 Server
10 17 (4.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (4.000%) Solaris
12 5 (1.429%) VMS
12 5 (1.429%) Windows 8
13 4 (1.143%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (1.143%) AIX
14 3 (0.857%) NetWare
14 3 (0.857%) Windows CE
14 3 (0.857%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.571%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (17.43%) ITIL
2 21 (6.000%) Migration
3 14 (4.000%) Service Delivery
4 12 (3.429%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (2.857%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (2.857%) Release Management
5 10 (2.857%) Change Management
6 9 (2.571%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (2.571%) Incident Management
7 8 (2.286%) Time Management
7 8 (2.286%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (2.286%) Project Management
7 8 (2.286%) Service Management
8 7 (2.000%) Configuration Management
9 6 (1.714%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (1.714%) Problem Management
9 6 (1.714%) Software Distribution
9 6 (1.714%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (1.429%) Validation
10 5 (1.429%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.43%) SQL
2 17 (4.857%) VBScript
2 17 (4.857%) VB
3 15 (4.286%) C#
4 12 (3.429%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.143%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.857%) Java
6 10 (2.857%) C++
7 8 (2.286%) C
8 7 (2.000%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.857%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.857%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.857%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.286%) PHP
10 1 (0.286%) Scala
10 1 (0.286%) VB6
Qualifications
1 73 (20.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 49 (14.00%) MCSE
3 26 (7.429%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.143%) MCP
5 20 (5.714%) Degree
5 20 (5.714%) MCITP
6 16 (4.571%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
8 13 (3.714%) CCA
9 8 (2.286%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.286%) MCDST
9 8 (2.286%) MCSA
10 7 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.000%) HNC
10 7 (2.000%) CCNA
10 7 (2.000%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.429%) ISEB
12 4 (1.143%) MCTS
12 4 (1.143%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.000%) SLA
2 2 (0.571%) QA
System Software
1 150 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 58 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (9.143%) XenApp
4 31 (8.857%) VMware ESX
5 24 (6.857%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 24 (6.857%) vSphere
6 14 (4.000%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.571%) Terminal Services
8 7 (2.000%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (2.000%) ProxySG
9 6 (1.714%) XenDesktop
9 6 (1.714%) ISA Server
10 4 (1.143%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (1.143%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.857%) MetaFrame
11 3 (0.857%) XenServer
11 3 (0.857%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.857%) Forefront TMG
11 3 (0.857%) Nmap
12 2 (0.571%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 36 (10.29%) SCOM
2 26 (7.429%) Backup Exec
3 21 (6.000%) SCCM
4 20 (5.714%) NetBackup
4 20 (5.714%) Legato
5 11 (3.143%) Norton AntiVirus
6 10 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
7 8 (2.286%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 7 (2.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (2.000%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 7 (2.000%) WSUS
9 5 (1.429%) Tivoli
9 5 (1.429%) HP SIM
10 4 (1.143%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (1.143%) RepliStor
10 4 (1.143%) MAILsweeper
11 3 (0.857%) MOM
11 3 (0.857%) DameWare
11 3 (0.857%) WMI
12 2 (0.571%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 178 (50.86%) Microsoft
2 114 (32.57%) Citrix
3 113 (32.29%) VMware
4 83 (23.71%) HP
5 48 (13.71%) Oracle
6 28 (8.000%) IBM
7 26 (7.429%) McAfee
7 26 (7.429%) Dell
8 25 (7.143%) Veritas
9 23 (6.571%) Sophos
10 20 (5.714%) Symantec
11 19 (5.429%) Cisco
12 18 (5.143%) Red Hat
12 18 (5.143%) BMC
13 16 (4.571%) PlateSpin
13 16 (4.571%) EMC
14 15 (4.286%) Leostream
15 13 (3.714%) Reuters
15 13 (3.714%) Bloomberg
15 13 (3.714%) Compaq
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