Wales Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Wales 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Ayrshire Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Bexley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	37
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	23	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	13.29 %	12.77 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£450
Average daily rate	£358	£450
% change on same period last year	-20.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£290
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.60	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.95	£16.50
% change on same period last year	+14.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.30	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.27	£19.64
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Operating Systems Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	173	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.231 %	0.190 %
Daily rates quoted	29	48
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£316
Average daily rate	£389	£332
% change on same period last year	+17.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.65	£22.69
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£23.81
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£24.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Windows 2000 UK

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 Wales 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 Wales 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 Wales region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+4	21	£358	-
West Wales	-4	2	-	-
North Wales	-3	1	-	-

Windows 2000 UK

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 43 (89.58 %) Windows 2 21 (43.75 %) MS Office 3 15 (31.25 %) MS Exchange 4 14 (29.17 %) Active Directory 4 14 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 13 (27.08 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 13 (27.08 %) Windows XP 6 10 (20.83 %) Microsoft 6 10 (20.83 %) SC Cleared 6 10 (20.83 %) Security Cleared 7 8 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 7 8 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 7 8 (16.67 %) MCP 8 7 (14.58 %) Windows NT 8 7 (14.58 %) Mainframe

9 6 (12.50 %) Remedy 9 6 (12.50 %) Dell 9 6 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 10 5 (10.42 %) VERITAS 10 5 (10.42 %) SQL Server 2000 10 5 (10.42 %) SQL 10 5 (10.42 %) SQL Server 10 5 (10.42 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 4 (8.333 %) Government 11 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 12 3 (6.250 %) UNIX 12 3 (6.250 %) Apache 12 3 (6.250 %) SharePoint 12 3 (6.250 %) .NET 12 3 (6.250 %) C#

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 3 (6.250 %) WebServices 1 3 (6.250 %) XML 1 3 (6.250 %) .NET 1 3 (6.250 %) WebSphere 2 2 (4.167 %) MFC 2 2 (4.167 %) STL 2 2 (4.167 %) OLE 2 2 (4.167 %) OLE DB	Application Platforms 1 15 (31.25 %) MS Exchange 2 14 (29.17 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 13 (27.08 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (10.42 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (6.250 %) IIS 5 3 (6.250 %) Apache 5 3 (6.250 %) SharePoint 6 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (2.083 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 21 (43.75 %) MS Office 2 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 3 3 (6.250 %) InfoPath 4 1 (2.083 %) SmartSuite	Communications & Networking 1 6 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (6.250 %) SAN 2 3 (6.250 %) Intranet 2 3 (6.250 %) Extranet 3 2 (4.167 %) Firewall 3 2 (4.167 %) VPN 4 1 (2.083 %) LAN 4 1 (2.083 %) SMS 4 1 (2.083 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.42 %) SQL Server 1 5 (10.42 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (4.167 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (2.083 %) MSI
General 1 4 (8.333 %) Government 2 3 (6.250 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (4.167 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.167 %) Aerospace 4 1 (2.083 %) Finance 4 1 (2.083 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 10 (20.83 %) Analyst 2 5 (10.42 %) Desktop Support 2 5 (10.42 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 4 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 4 3 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 4 3 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (6.250 %) Web Designer 4 3 (6.250 %) Server Engineer 4 3 (6.250 %) Desktop Analyst 4 3 (6.250 %) Windows Server Engineer 5 2 (4.167 %) Technical Engineer 5 2 (4.167 %) Server Specialist 5 2 (4.167 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (4.167 %) Team Leader 5 2 (4.167 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 2 (4.167 %) C++ Developer 5 2 (4.167 %) Senior Software Engineer 5 2 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (4.167 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (14.58 %) Mainframe 2 3 (6.250 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 43 (89.58 %) Windows 2 13 (27.08 %) Windows XP 3 8 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (14.58 %) Windows NT 5 3 (6.250 %) UNIX 6 1 (2.083 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.083 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.83 %) SC Cleared 1 10 (20.83 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (6.250 %) Network Design 2 3 (6.250 %) Knowledge Management 2 3 (6.250 %) Workflow 3 2 (4.167 %) Migration 3 2 (4.167 %) UML 4 1 (2.083 %) OO 4 1 (2.083 %) CRM 4 1 (2.083 %) OOD 4 1 (2.083 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.083 %) Validation 4 1 (2.083 %) Software Testing 4 1 (2.083 %) Communications Security 4 1 (2.083 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (2.083 %) CTC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (10.42 %) SQL 2 3 (6.250 %) C# 2 3 (6.250 %) C++ 3 2 (4.167 %) DHTML 3 2 (4.167 %) JavaScript 3 2 (4.167 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 8 (16.67 %) MCP 1 8 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.167 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) SLA
System Software 1 14 (29.17 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 10 (20.83 %) Microsoft 2 6 (12.50 %) Dell 2 6 (12.50 %) Remedy 3 5 (10.42 %) VERITAS 4 3 (6.250 %) McAfee Security 4 3 (6.250 %) ICL 4 3 (6.250 %) Citrix 4 3 (6.250 %) IBM 4 3 (6.250 %) HP 5 2 (4.167 %) Compaq 5 2 (4.167 %) Sybase 5 2 (4.167 %) Siemens 5 2 (4.167 %) Fujitsu Siemens 5 2 (4.167 %) QNX 6 1 (2.083 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.083 %) Novell 6 1 (2.083 %) SAP 6 1 (2.083 %) Siebel