West Yorkshire Windows Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the West Yorkshire 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 Server 2003 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	63
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	35	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	10.84 %	8.470 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£180
Average daily rate	£350	£180
% change on same period last year	+94.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£180
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£14.18	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+35.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.03	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.55	£24.27
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Operating Systems West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	323	366
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.430 %	0.371 %
Daily rates quoted	59	44
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£271
Average daily rate	£298	£280
% change on same period last year	+6.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.63	£14.87
Average hourly rate	£18.82	£15.84
% change on same period last year	+18.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.01	£16.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.11	£23.45
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
Windows Server 2003 Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

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 West Yorkshire region.

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds	+7	25	-	-
Bradford	-	4	-	-
Wakefield	-1	1	-	-

Windows Server 2003 Yorkshire

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 56 (100.00 %) Windows 2 30 (53.57 %) Active Directory 3 19 (33.93 %) Microsoft 4 15 (26.79 %) SQL Server 5 13 (23.21 %) Citrix 5 13 (23.21 %) DNS 6 12 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 11 (19.64 %) ITIL 8 10 (17.86 %) SQL 8 10 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 8 10 (17.86 %) WAN 8 10 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2005 9 9 (16.07 %) TCP/IP 9 9 (16.07 %) Microsoft Certification 9 9 (16.07 %) Windows XP

9 9 (16.07 %) MS Office 10 8 (14.29 %) SharePoint 10 8 (14.29 %) MCSE 11 7 (12.50 %) MS Excel 12 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 12 6 (10.71 %) VMware 12 6 (10.71 %) IIS 12 6 (10.71 %) .NET 12 6 (10.71 %) Oracle 12 6 (10.71 %) DHCP 12 6 (10.71 %) Internet 13 5 (8.929 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 5 (8.929 %) Mac OS X 13 5 (8.929 %) LAN 13 5 (8.929 %) Cisco

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 6 (10.71 %) .NET 2 5 (8.929 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (7.143 %) X-Windows 4 1 (1.786 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 12 (21.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (14.29 %) SharePoint 4 6 (10.71 %) IIS 5 4 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (7.143 %) WebLogic 5 4 (7.143 %) Tomcat 6 3 (5.357 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (3.571 %) Lotus Domino 7 2 (3.571 %) Apache 8 1 (1.786 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (16.07 %) MS Office 2 7 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (1.786 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 13 (23.21 %) DNS 2 10 (17.86 %) WAN 3 9 (16.07 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (10.71 %) Internet 4 6 (10.71 %) DHCP 5 5 (8.929 %) LAN 6 4 (7.143 %) SAN 7 3 (5.357 %) Intranet 7 3 (5.357 %) Firewall 8 1 (1.786 %) PBX 8 1 (1.786 %) LDAP 8 1 (1.786 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (26.79 %) SQL Server 2 10 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (7.143 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server 7 3 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.786 %) DTS
General 1 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 2 4 (7.143 %) Education 3 1 (1.786 %) Government 3 1 (1.786 %) Health 3 1 (1.786 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.786 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (10.71 %) Administrator 2 6 (10.71 %) Server Support 2 6 (10.71 %) Support Technician 3 5 (8.929 %) Systems Engineer 3 5 (8.929 %) DBA 3 5 (8.929 %) Desktop Support 3 5 (8.929 %) Systems Administrator 3 5 (8.929 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (7.143 %) Oracle DBA 4 4 (7.143 %) Analyst 4 4 (7.143 %) Senior Systems Engineer 4 4 (7.143 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (5.357 %) Desktop Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (5.357 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Developer 6 2 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.357 %) Client/Server 1 3 (5.357 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.786 %) AS400 2 1 (1.786 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 56 (100.00 %) Windows 2 9 (16.07 %) Windows XP 3 5 (8.929 %) Mac OS X 3 5 (8.929 %) UNIX 4 4 (7.143 %) HPUX 4 4 (7.143 %) Linux 4 4 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (5.357 %) Solaris 6 2 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.786 %) Mac OS X Server 7 1 (1.786 %) Windows NT 7 1 (1.786 %) SUSE 7 1 (1.786 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (19.64 %) ITIL 2 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 2 2 (3.571 %) Workflow 3 1 (1.786 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (1.786 %) Performance Management 3 1 (1.786 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (1.786 %) Change Management 3 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE	Programming Languages 1 10 (17.86 %) SQL 2 4 (7.143 %) C# 2 4 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (3.571 %) Java 4 1 (1.786 %) C
Qualifications 1 9 (16.07 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (14.29 %) MCSE 3 2 (3.571 %) CCNA 3 2 (3.571 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 30 (53.57 %) Active Directory 2 4 (7.143 %) MetaFrame 2 4 (7.143 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (5.357 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (3.571 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (3.571 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (1.786 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (1.786 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 5 (8.929 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (3.571 %) ARCserve 2 2 (3.571 %) TIBCO Hawk 2 2 (3.571 %) OpenView 2 2 (3.571 %) MOM 3 1 (1.786 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 19 (33.93 %) Microsoft 2 13 (23.21 %) Citrix 3 6 (10.71 %) Oracle 3 6 (10.71 %) VMware 4 5 (8.929 %) Cisco 5 4 (7.143 %) Apple 6 3 (5.357 %) VERITAS 6 3 (5.357 %) Lotus 6 3 (5.357 %) HP 7 2 (3.571 %) BEA 7 2 (3.571 %) CommVault 7 2 (3.571 %) ESRI 7 2 (3.571 %) TIBCO 8 1 (1.786 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.786 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.786 %) 3Com 8 1 (1.786 %) Siemens 8 1 (1.786 %) Avaya 8 1 (1.786 %) SAP