West Midlands Windows 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the West Midlands 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	33
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	79	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.116 %
As % of the category below	15.64 %	15.89 %
Daily rates quoted	10	10
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£207
Average daily rate	£282	£215
% change on same period last year	+30.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£224
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£296
% change on same period last year	-11.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.98	£13.23
Average hourly rate	£13.77	£14.10
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.57	£14.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.24	£18.03
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Operating Systems West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	505	730
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.666 %	0.727 %
Daily rates quoted	100	132
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£252
Average daily rate	£304	£261
% change on same period last year	+16.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	121	208
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.14	£19.95
Average hourly rate	£17.12	£21.26
% change on same period last year	-19.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.10	£22.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Windows 2000 England

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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Windows 2000
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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 West Midlands region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows 2000 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Birmingham	-5	22	£235	-
Warwickshire	+5	14	-	-
Worcestershire	-	10	-	-
Coventry	-6	8	£200	+33.33 %
Herefordshire	+8	8	£360	-
Staffordshire	-7	3	-	-
Wolverhampton	-18	2	-	-
Walsall	+8	1	-	-
Dudley	-	1	-	-
Solihull	+3	1	-	-
Shropshire	-10	1	-	-

Windows 2000 England

Windows 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 163 (100.00 %) Windows 2 124 (76.07 %) Windows XP 3 59 (36.20 %) Microsoft 3 59 (36.20 %) Active Directory 4 51 (31.29 %) MS Office 5 38 (23.31 %) Windows Server 2003 6 31 (19.02 %) MS Excel 7 30 (18.40 %) MS Exchange 8 28 (17.18 %) Windows NT 9 20 (12.27 %) Citrix 10 15 (9.202 %) Migration 11 14 (8.589 %) NHS 12 13 (7.975 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 13 (7.975 %) NetWare 12 13 (7.975 %) DNS

13 12 (7.362 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 12 (7.362 %) HP 14 10 (6.135 %) Government 14 10 (6.135 %) TCP/IP 14 10 (6.135 %) ITIL 15 9 (5.521 %) VB 15 9 (5.521 %) DHCP 15 9 (5.521 %) Windows Vista 15 9 (5.521 %) Exchange Server 5.5 16 8 (4.908 %) Novell 16 8 (4.908 %) Lotus 17 7 (4.294 %) Cisco 17 7 (4.294 %) Lotus Notes 17 7 (4.294 %) Security Cleared 18 6 (3.681 %) Client/Server

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 2 (1.227 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (1.227 %) XML 1 2 (1.227 %) .NET 2 1 (0.613 %) HTML 2 1 (0.613 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 30 (18.40 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (7.362 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (5.521 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 7 (4.294 %) Lotus Notes 5 5 (3.067 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (1.840 %) WebLogic 7 2 (1.227 %) Tuxedo 7 2 (1.227 %) IIS 8 1 (0.613 %) Lotus Domino 8 1 (0.613 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 51 (31.29 %) MS Office 2 31 (19.02 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.613 %) Acrobat 3 1 (0.613 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (1.840 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 13 (7.975 %) DNS 2 10 (6.135 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (5.521 %) DHCP 4 6 (3.681 %) VPN 4 6 (3.681 %) SMS 5 4 (2.454 %) Firewall 5 4 (2.454 %) Internet 6 3 (1.840 %) LAN 6 3 (1.840 %) WAN 7 2 (1.227 %) SNMP 7 2 (1.227 %) DSL 8 1 (0.613 %) POP3 8 1 (0.613 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.613 %) ADSL 8 1 (0.613 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.454 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.227 %) MS Access 3 1 (0.613 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.613 %) TOAD 3 1 (0.613 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 4 (2.454 %) MSI 2 1 (0.613 %) Visual Studio	General 1 10 (6.135 %) Government 2 5 (3.067 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (1.227 %) Education 3 2 (1.227 %) Law 3 2 (1.227 %) Telecoms 4 1 (0.613 %) Finance 4 1 (0.613 %) Health 4 1 (0.613 %) Legal 4 1 (0.613 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 37 (22.70 %) Analyst 2 31 (19.02 %) Desktop Support 3 30 (18.40 %) Support Engineer 4 24 (14.72 %) 2nd Line Support 5 21 (12.88 %) Support Analyst 6 18 (11.04 %) Desktop Engineer 7 15 (9.202 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 13 (7.975 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 9 12 (7.362 %) Support Technician 9 12 (7.362 %) Applications Packager 10 10 (6.135 %) 1st Line Support 11 9 (5.521 %) Desktop Support Analyst 11 9 (5.521 %) PC Support 11 9 (5.521 %) Desktop Analyst 12 8 (4.908 %) Service Desk Analyst 12 8 (4.908 %) Service Analyst 12 8 (4.908 %) Helpdesk Analyst 13 7 (4.294 %) Helpdesk Support 14 6 (3.681 %) Consultant 15 5 (3.067 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 14 (8.589 %) NHS 2 6 (3.681 %) Client/Server 3 5 (3.067 %) Thin Client 3 5 (3.067 %) Fat Client 3 5 (3.067 %) Mathematics 4 4 (2.454 %) PDA 5 2 (1.227 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.613 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.613 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.613 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 163 (100.00 %) Windows 2 124 (76.07 %) Windows XP 3 38 (23.31 %) Windows Server 2003 4 28 (17.18 %) Windows NT 5 13 (7.975 %) NetWare 6 9 (5.521 %) Windows Vista 7 6 (3.681 %) UNIX 8 5 (3.067 %) Linux 9 4 (2.454 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (1.840 %) AIX 10 3 (1.840 %) HPUX 11 2 (1.227 %) Solaris 11 2 (1.227 %) Mac OS X 12 1 (0.613 %) VMS 12 1 (0.613 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (9.202 %) Migration 2 10 (6.135 %) ITIL 3 7 (4.294 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (3.067 %) System Testing 5 2 (1.227 %) CTC Cleared 5 2 (1.227 %) CRM 5 2 (1.227 %) Project Management 6 1 (0.613 %) OO 6 1 (0.613 %) Document Management 6 1 (0.613 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (0.613 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (0.613 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (5.521 %) VB 2 3 (1.840 %) VBScript 3 2 (1.227 %) C# 3 2 (1.227 %) SQL 4 1 (0.613 %) C 4 1 (0.613 %) Java	Qualifications 1 6 (3.681 %) MCP 1 6 (3.681 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.840 %) MCSE 2 3 (1.840 %) Novell Certification 3 2 (1.227 %) CCNA 3 2 (1.227 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (1.227 %) CNE 4 1 (0.613 %) MCSA 4 1 (0.613 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.613 %) CNA 4 1 (0.613 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.227 %) SLA 2 1 (0.613 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.613 %) QA	System Software 1 59 (36.20 %) Active Directory 2 3 (1.840 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (1.227 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.227 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (0.613 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.613 %) NetBackup 4 1 (0.613 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 13 (7.975 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (2.454 %) MOM 3 1 (0.613 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (0.613 %) Legato 3 1 (0.613 %) DameWare 3 1 (0.613 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.613 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 59 (36.20 %) Microsoft 2 20 (12.27 %) Citrix 3 12 (7.362 %) HP 4 8 (4.908 %) Novell 4 8 (4.908 %) Lotus 5 7 (4.294 %) Cisco 6 5 (3.067 %) Wyse 7 4 (2.454 %) Oracle 8 3 (1.840 %) Compaq 8 3 (1.840 %) Dell 9 2 (1.227 %) LANDesk 9 2 (1.227 %) Altiris 9 2 (1.227 %) IBM 9 2 (1.227 %) Amdocs 9 2 (1.227 %) iSOFT 9 2 (1.227 %) Remedy 10 1 (0.613 %) McAfee Security 10 1 (0.613 %) VMware 10 1 (0.613 %) Adobe 10 1 (0.613 %) Intel