Windows Server 2003 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2003 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 612 741
Rank change year-on-year +77 +129 -119
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 32 82 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.55% 0.90% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 76
10th Percentile £295 £190 £216
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £458 £423
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +8.28% +5.63%
75th Percentile £480 £530 £538
90th Percentile £572 £591 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £408
% change year-on-year +11.76% +4.29% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £28.41
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £56.54
90th Percentile - - £69.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £28.41
% change year-on-year - - +64.36%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2003 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,782 9,068 12,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 16.17% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 6,316 8,815
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 387 572
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £46.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.09% +106.74% +27.14%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £40.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -43.85% +102.95% +21.21%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +65 28 £400 -11.11% 9
Work from Home +103 19 £380 -20.00% 1
UK excluding London +12 17 £475 +11.76% 9
London +82 12 £380 -24.00%
South East +9 6 £475 -4.52% 7
East of England +4 4 £505 +18.82% 1
North of England +19 2 £500 +163.16%
South West +8 2 £579 +10.24% 1
Scotland +27 1 - -
Midlands +19 1 £160 -71.81%
East Midlands +13 1 £160 -
North East +11 1 £600 +406.33%
Yorkshire +11 1 £400 +110.53%
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2010
3 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 15 (46.88%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (43.75%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (31.25%) Skype for Business
7 4 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2000
8 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) DNS
1 10 (31.25%) Skype
2 9 (28.13%) DHCP
3 7 (21.88%) Firewall
4 5 (15.63%) SMTP
5 2 (6.25%) VPN
6 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.13%) PBX
6 1 (3.13%) PSTN
6 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SCCM Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Field Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Junior
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (3.13%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Clustering
2 4 (12.50%) PKI
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) BYOD
4 2 (6.25%) iPad
4 2 (6.25%) iPhone
4 2 (6.25%) PDA
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Smartphone
4 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
5 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
6 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (12.50%) Linux
7 4 (12.50%) Windows 2000
8 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (6.25%) Unix
8 2 (6.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Migration
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.63%) ITIL
5 4 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (6.25%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Project Management
6 2 (6.25%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.25%) Runbook
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.13%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (3.13%) ITSM
7 1 (3.13%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.75%) VBScript
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) MCP
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (9.38%) Degree
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
3 6 (18.75%) XenApp
4 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (6.25%) BitLocker
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (6.25%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.13%) DFS Replication
6 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (9.38%) MAILsweeper
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (6.25%) SCOM
4 2 (6.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Citrix
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) Symantec
4 6 (18.75%) Ivanti
5 5 (15.63%) Trend Micro
6 4 (12.50%) HP
6 4 (12.50%) IronPort
7 3 (9.38%) Sophos
8 2 (6.25%) Huawei
8 2 (6.25%) Infoblox
8 2 (6.25%) Intel
8 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.13%) Dell
9 1 (3.13%) Google
9 1 (3.13%) Peregrine
9 1 (3.13%) Remedy
9 1 (3.13%) Veritas