Worcestershire Windows 2000 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k) skills within the Worcestershire 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows 2000 (Win2k)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	8
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	44.44 %	35.71 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£190	£150
Average daily rate	£190	£150
% change on same period last year	+26.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£190	£150
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£268
% change on same period last year	-9.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£15.50
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£17.44
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Operating Systems Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£151
Average daily rate	£324	£169
% change on same period last year	+92.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£187
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.76	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£20.38	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+35.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Windows 2000 West Midlands

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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Windows 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Windows 2000
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 2000 within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Redditch	+3	6	-	-
Kidderminster	0	5	-	-
Worcester	+3	2	£190	-

Windows 2000 West Midlands

Windows 2000
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 17 (94.44 %) Windows XP 3 11 (61.11 %) Microsoft 4 9 (50.00 %) MS Office 5 8 (44.44 %) MS Excel 5 8 (44.44 %) HP 5 8 (44.44 %) NHS 6 7 (38.89 %) Security Cleared 7 5 (27.78 %) CTC Cleared 7 5 (27.78 %) Wyse 8 3 (16.67 %) Government 8 3 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (11.11 %) Apple 9 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory 9 2 (11.11 %) LAN

9 2 (11.11 %) WAN 9 2 (11.11 %) DHCP 9 2 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 9 2 (11.11 %) DNS 10 1 (5.556 %) Windows NT 10 1 (5.556 %) ITIL 10 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 10 1 (5.556 %) ITIL Certification 10 1 (5.556 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 1 (5.556 %) BC Cleared 10 1 (5.556 %) Fat Client 10 1 (5.556 %) Law 10 1 (5.556 %) Thin Client 10 1 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003

Windows 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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.

Applications 1 9 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 8 (44.44 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.11 %) LAN 1 2 (11.11 %) WAN 1 2 (11.11 %) DHCP 1 2 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (11.11 %) DNS
General 1 3 (16.67 %) Government 2 1 (5.556 %) Law	Job Titles 1 15 (83.33 %) Desktop Support 2 12 (66.67 %) Desktop Engineer 3 11 (61.11 %) Support Engineer 3 11 (61.11 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 8 (44.44 %) 2nd Line Support 4 8 (44.44 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 2 (11.11 %) Analyst 6 1 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (5.556 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (5.556 %) IT Support Analyst 6 1 (5.556 %) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (44.44 %) NHS 2 1 (5.556 %) Thin Client 2 1 (5.556 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 18 (100.00 %) Windows 2 17 (94.44 %) Windows XP 3 1 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (5.556 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (5.556 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (38.89 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (27.78 %) CTC Cleared 3 3 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (5.556 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (5.556 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 1 (5.556 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 11 (61.11 %) Microsoft 2 8 (44.44 %) HP 3 5 (27.78 %) Wyse 4 2 (11.11 %) Apple 5 1 (5.556 %) Citrix