Uxbridge Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the Uxbridge region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redcar Renfrewshire Rochdale Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	21
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	12	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	4.348 %
Daily rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum daily rate	£432	-
Average daily rate	£442	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£452	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£331
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
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	£21.99	£24.62
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Operating Systems Uxbridge
Matching contract IT job ads	42	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	17	6
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£210
Average daily rate	£390	£232
% change on same period last year	+67.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.56	£15.28
Average hourly rate	£26.11	£17.03
% change on same period last year	+53.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	£18.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows Server 2003 London

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 Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Uxbridge region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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 Uxbridge region.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 22 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (36.36 %) Linux 2 8 (36.36 %) SQL 2 8 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 8 (36.36 %) Unix 2 8 (36.36 %) Telecoms 2 8 (36.36 %) Validation 2 8 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 2 8 (36.36 %) System Testing 3 7 (31.82 %) NetScreen 3 7 (31.82 %) Oracle 10g 3 7 (31.82 %) Oracle 3 7 (31.82 %) Cisco 4 6 (27.27 %) RDBMS 5 5 (22.73 %) VoIP

5 5 (22.73 %) Datawarehouse 6 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 6 4 (18.18 %) N-Tier 6 4 (18.18 %) VBScript 6 4 (18.18 %) Thin Client 6 4 (18.18 %) MOM 6 4 (18.18 %) Government 6 4 (18.18 %) IP Telephony 6 4 (18.18 %) Time Management 6 4 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 6 4 (18.18 %) SCOM 6 4 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (18.18 %) Fat Client 6 4 (18.18 %) Windows Vista 6 4 (18.18 %) Business Desktop Deployment

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 Development 1 1 (4.545 %) .NET 1 1 (4.545 %) ATL 1 1 (4.545 %) COM 1 1 (4.545 %) DCOM 1 1 (4.545 %) MAPI 1 1 (4.545 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (4.545 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 7 (31.82 %) NetScreen 2 5 (22.73 %) VoIP 3 4 (18.18 %) IP Telephony 4 3 (13.64 %) WAN 5 2 (9.091 %) VPN 5 2 (9.091 %) ADSL 5 2 (9.091 %) Firewall 6 1 (4.545 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 7 (31.82 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (27.27 %) RDBMS 4 5 (22.73 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (4.545 %) ClearCase	General 1 8 (36.36 %) Telecoms 2 4 (18.18 %) Government
Job Titles 1 8 (36.36 %) Architect 1 8 (36.36 %) Infrastructure Architect 2 7 (31.82 %) Software Development Engineer 2 7 (31.82 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (4.545 %) Developer 3 1 (4.545 %) Analyst 3 1 (4.545 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Developer Analyst 3 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 1 (4.545 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (18.18 %) N-Tier 1 4 (18.18 %) Thin Client 1 4 (18.18 %) Fat Client 1 4 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (4.545 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 22 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (36.36 %) Linux 2 8 (36.36 %) Unix 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (36.36 %) Validation 1 8 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 1 8 (36.36 %) System Testing 2 4 (18.18 %) Time Management 2 4 (18.18 %) Business Desktop Deployment 2 4 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (13.64 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (13.64 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (9.091 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (4.545 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (4.545 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 8 (36.36 %) SQL 2 4 (18.18 %) VBScript 3 1 (4.545 %) C 3 1 (4.545 %) C# 3 1 (4.545 %) C++	Qualifications 1 1 (4.545 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (18.18 %) MOM 1 4 (18.18 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 7 (31.82 %) Oracle 1 7 (31.82 %) Cisco 2 2 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 3 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft