Windows 2000 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2K)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 2000 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 2000 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 714 814
Rank change year-on-year +135 +100 -142
Contract jobs citing Windows 2000 7 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.013% 0.019%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.12% 0.082% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £474 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.67% +66.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £544 £775 £478
90th Percentile £557 - £513
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +75.61%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 2000 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 5,820 9,772 13,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.28% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 6,882 9,125
10th Percentile £183 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 432 640
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £29.65 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.17% +48.25% +21.21%

Windows 2000
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 2000 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 2000 in the UK

Windows 2000
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 2000.

Daily rate trend for Windows 2000 in the UK

Windows 2000
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 2000.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 2000 in the UK

Windows 2000
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +119 7 £505 -32.67% 3
UK excluding London +75 7 £505 - 3
East of England - 4 £505 - 2
South West - 3 - - 1
Work from Home - 2 - -

Windows 2000
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 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2000
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Messaging Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Test Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Test Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Unix
3 3 (42.86%) VMS
3 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) MCP
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) MAILsweeper
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 3 (42.86%) IronPort
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 3 (42.86%) Sophos
2 3 (42.86%) Trend Micro
3 2 (28.57%) VMware