City of London Windows Server 2003 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Andover Avon Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Frome Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughton Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Nelson New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Ripon Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadley Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wednesbury Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	49
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	878	719
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.508 %	0.309 %
As % of the category below	16.51 %	13.27 %
Salaries quoted	762	594
Average minimum salary	£37,871	£39,387
Average salary	£40,597	£41,856
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum salary	£43,323	£44,324
UK excluding London average salary	£31,390	£31,882
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
Operating Systems City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	5317	5419
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.078 %	2.332 %
Salaries quoted	4540	4142
Average minimum salary	£44,295	£46,634
Average salary	£48,502	£50,633
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Average maximum salary	£52,709	£54,631
UK excluding London average salary	£34,285	£34,402
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Windows Server 2003 London

Windows Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Server 2003
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the City of London region.

Windows Server 2003
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Server 2003.

1 1929 (100.00 %) Windows 2 878 (45.52 %) Active Directory 3 642 (33.28 %) Finance 4 626 (32.45 %) MS Exchange 5 622 (32.24 %) Microsoft 6 578 (29.96 %) SQL Server 7 502 (26.02 %) SQL 8 494 (25.61 %) Windows 2000 9 490 (25.40 %) Windows XP 10 480 (24.88 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 430 (22.29 %) Citrix 12 412 (21.36 %) VMware 13 399 (20.68 %) Microsoft Certification 14 376 (19.49 %) Windows 2000 Server 15 367 (19.03 %) MS Excel

16 331 (17.16 %) MCSE 17 278 (14.41 %) MS Office 18 277 (14.36 %) SAN 19 276 (14.31 %) TCP/IP 20 265 (13.74 %) IIS 21 263 (13.63 %) SQL Server 2005 22 252 (13.06 %) Cisco 23 243 (12.60 %) Banking 24 213 (11.04 %) SQL Server 2000 25 200 (10.37 %) Linux 26 181 (9.383 %) DNS 27 179 (9.279 %) UNIX 28 176 (9.124 %) Firewall 29 175 (9.072 %) .NET 30 172 (8.917 %) HP

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 175 (9.072 %) .NET 2 66 (3.421 %) ASP.NET 3 50 (2.592 %) ASP 4 37 (1.918 %) XML 4 37 (1.918 %) HTML 5 32 (1.659 %) WebSphere 6 28 (1.452 %) WebServices 7 26 (1.348 %) COM+ 8 22 (1.140 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 21 (1.089 %) ADO 10 19 (0.985 %) J2EE 10 19 (0.985 %) CSS 11 18 (0.933 %) JMS 12 14 (0.726 %) ODBC 13 7 (0.363 %) Application Packaging 13 7 (0.363 %) ADO.NET 14 6 (0.311 %) Middleware 14 6 (0.311 %) FIX Protocol 15 5 (0.259 %) AJAX 16 4 (0.207 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 626 (32.45 %) MS Exchange 2 480 (24.88 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 265 (13.74 %) IIS 4 136 (7.050 %) SharePoint 5 111 (5.754 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 98 (5.080 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 39 (2.022 %) Lotus Notes 8 38 (1.970 %) MQSeries 9 35 (1.814 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 10 27 (1.400 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 23 (1.192 %) WebLogic 12 19 (0.985 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 19 (0.985 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 18 (0.933 %) Lotus Domino 14 17 (0.881 %) CMS 15 16 (0.829 %) Apache 16 15 (0.778 %) SharePoint Server 2007 17 11 (0.570 %) GroupWise 18 9 (0.467 %) Rendezvous 18 9 (0.467 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 367 (19.03 %) MS Excel 2 278 (14.41 %) MS Office 3 7 (0.363 %) MS Visio 4 5 (0.259 %) InfoPath 5 4 (0.207 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (0.207 %) Acrobat 5 4 (0.207 %) AutoCAD 6 3 (0.156 %) Photoshop 6 3 (0.156 %) MS Project 7 2 (0.104 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.052 %) DeltaView 8 1 (0.052 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 1 (0.052 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 6 (0.311 %) SoftGrid 2 5 (0.259 %) RMDS 3 4 (0.207 %) Summit 4 2 (0.104 %) Capstone 5 1 (0.052 %) Line 50 5 1 (0.052 %) INSURE/90 5 1 (0.052 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 277 (14.36 %) SAN 2 276 (14.31 %) TCP/IP 3 181 (9.383 %) DNS 4 176 (9.124 %) Firewall 5 156 (8.087 %) LAN 6 151 (7.828 %) WAN 7 129 (6.687 %) DHCP 8 123 (6.376 %) Internet 9 113 (5.858 %) VPN 10 71 (3.681 %) VoIP 11 50 (2.592 %) Intranet 12 33 (1.711 %) FTP 13 28 (1.452 %) Network Security 14 27 (1.400 %) SMTP 15 26 (1.348 %) HTTP 16 22 (1.140 %) Wireless 16 22 (1.140 %) VLAN 17 19 (0.985 %) Cisco PIX 18 18 (0.933 %) Extranet 19 17 (0.881 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 578 (29.96 %) SQL Server 2 263 (13.63 %) SQL Server 2005 3 213 (11.04 %) SQL Server 2000 4 39 (2.022 %) Oracle 10g 5 30 (1.555 %) DTS 6 29 (1.503 %) MySQL 7 27 (1.400 %) RDBMS 8 21 (1.089 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 21 (1.089 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 20 (1.037 %) Oracle 9i 10 17 (0.881 %) ETL 11 15 (0.778 %) Informix 12 14 (0.726 %) Crystal Reports 13 11 (0.570 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 10 (0.518 %) Sybase ASE 15 9 (0.467 %) BusinessObjects 16 8 (0.415 %) Datawarehouse 16 8 (0.415 %) OLAP 17 6 (0.311 %) SQL Server 7 17 6 (0.311 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 21 (1.089 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (0.622 %) MSI 3 6 (0.311 %) OpenDeploy 4 3 (0.156 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (0.104 %) Flash 5 2 (0.104 %) Dreamweaver 5 2 (0.104 %) Subversion 5 2 (0.104 %) FrontPage 6 1 (0.052 %) JIRA 6 1 (0.052 %) NUnit	General 1 642 (33.28 %) Finance 2 243 (12.60 %) Banking 3 158 (8.191 %) Law 4 110 (5.702 %) Investment Banking 5 106 (5.495 %) Legal 6 89 (4.614 %) Insurance 7 57 (2.955 %) Financial Institution 8 55 (2.851 %) Back Office 9 43 (2.229 %) Pensions 10 32 (1.659 %) Telecoms 11 29 (1.503 %) Health 12 27 (1.400 %) Education 13 22 (1.140 %) Front Office 14 16 (0.829 %) Marketing 15 13 (0.674 %) Retail 16 7 (0.363 %) Publishing 17 6 (0.311 %) Government 18 5 (0.259 %) Games 19 3 (0.156 %) Music 19 3 (0.156 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 524 (27.16 %) Analyst 2 356 (18.46 %) Support Analyst 3 267 (13.84 %) Administrator 4 191 (9.902 %) Systems Administrator 5 163 (8.450 %) Support Engineer 6 139 (7.206 %) Systems Engineer 7 124 (6.428 %) Desktop Support 8 106 (5.495 %) Consultant 9 88 (4.562 %) 3rd Line Support 10 87 (4.510 %) Server Support 11 79 (4.095 %) Applications Support 12 76 (3.940 %) Team Leader 13 71 (3.681 %) Server Engineer 14 67 (3.473 %) Technical Analyst 15 64 (3.318 %) DBA 16 62 (3.214 %) Technical Support 17 61 (3.162 %) Infrastructure Analyst 17 61 (3.162 %) Infrastructure Engineer 18 60 (3.110 %) 2nd Line Support 19 59 (3.059 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 150 (7.776 %) Blackberry 2 106 (5.495 %) Clustering 3 73 (3.784 %) Replication 4 38 (1.970 %) Derivative 5 33 (1.711 %) Equities 6 23 (1.192 %) PDA 6 23 (1.192 %) Fixed Income 7 22 (1.140 %) Client/Server 8 19 (0.985 %) Management Information System 9 18 (0.933 %) Computer Science 10 16 (0.829 %) N-Tier 11 14 (0.726 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 9 (0.467 %) CLARiiON 12 9 (0.467 %) PKI 13 8 (0.415 %) Video Conferencing 14 5 (0.259 %) Multithreading 14 5 (0.259 %) Japanese Language 15 4 (0.207 %) SecurID 15 4 (0.207 %) Statistics 15 4 (0.207 %) EMC Centera
Operating Systems 1 1929 (100.00 %) Windows 2 494 (25.61 %) Windows 2000 3 490 (25.40 %) Windows XP 4 376 (19.49 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 200 (10.37 %) Linux 6 179 (9.279 %) UNIX 7 153 (7.932 %) Solaris 8 116 (6.013 %) Windows Vista 9 73 (3.784 %) Windows Server 2008 10 69 (3.577 %) Red Hat Linux 11 37 (1.918 %) Windows NT 12 18 (0.933 %) AIX 13 17 (0.881 %) NetWare 14 14 (0.726 %) Mac OS X 15 10 (0.518 %) SUSE 16 7 (0.363 %) Mac OS X Server 17 6 (0.311 %) Windows Mobile 18 3 (0.156 %) HPUX 18 3 (0.156 %) VMS 19 2 (0.104 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 170 (8.813 %) ITIL 2 83 (4.303 %) Disaster Recovery 3 79 (4.095 %) Project Management 4 61 (3.162 %) Service Delivery 5 55 (2.851 %) Investment Management 6 53 (2.748 %) Asset Management 7 49 (2.540 %) Migration 8 42 (2.177 %) Electronic Trading 9 32 (1.659 %) Change Management 10 27 (1.400 %) Configuration Management 11 26 (1.348 %) Load Balancing 12 25 (1.296 %) Release Management 12 25 (1.296 %) Information Security 13 23 (1.192 %) Business Continuity 14 22 (1.140 %) Service Management 15 21 (1.089 %) PRINCE2 15 21 (1.089 %) Document Management 16 20 (1.037 %) Content Management 17 18 (0.933 %) Data Management 17 18 (0.933 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 502 (26.02 %) SQL 2 112 (5.806 %) Perl 3 75 (3.888 %) C# 4 74 (3.836 %) Transact-SQL 5 72 (3.733 %) Java 6 68 (3.525 %) VB 7 37 (1.918 %) PL/SQL 7 37 (1.918 %) JavaScript 8 35 (1.814 %) VBScript 8 35 (1.814 %) Python 9 30 (1.555 %) PHP 10 27 (1.400 %) C 11 25 (1.296 %) C++ 12 17 (0.881 %) Shell Script 13 11 (0.570 %) VB.NET 14 10 (0.518 %) VBA 15 7 (0.363 %) VB6 16 2 (0.104 %) ActionScript 16 2 (0.104 %) JCL 17 1 (0.052 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 399 (20.68 %) Microsoft Certification 2 331 (17.16 %) MCSE 3 122 (6.325 %) Degree 4 115 (5.962 %) MCP 5 90 (4.666 %) Cisco Certification 6 80 (4.147 %) CCNA 7 57 (2.955 %) MCSA 8 31 (1.607 %) Citrix Certification 9 25 (1.296 %) CCA 10 21 (1.089 %) CCNP 11 20 (1.037 %) ITIL Certification 12 18 (0.933 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 16 (0.829 %) CCEA 14 13 (0.674 %) MCDST 15 11 (0.570 %) HP APS 16 10 (0.518 %) CISSP 17 9 (0.467 %) CISM 18 8 (0.415 %) Security+ Certification 19 6 (0.311 %) PRINCE2 Certification 19 6 (0.311 %) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 49 (2.540 %) SLA 2 5 (0.259 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 5 (0.259 %) QA 3 3 (0.156 %) COBIT 4 1 (0.052 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.052 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.052 %) ISO17799 4 1 (0.052 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 878 (45.52 %) Active Directory 2 156 (8.087 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 94 (4.873 %) VMware ESX 4 87 (4.510 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 84 (4.355 %) Backup Exec 6 73 (3.784 %) NetBackup 7 45 (2.333 %) ISA Server 8 31 (1.607 %) Terminal Services 9 26 (1.348 %) MetaFrame 10 20 (1.037 %) Terminal Server 11 14 (0.726 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 11 (0.570 %) VMware Server 13 6 (0.311 %) Oracle RAC 13 6 (0.311 %) VMware GSX 14 5 (0.259 %) VMware Workstation 15 4 (0.207 %) Xen 16 3 (0.156 %) MSMQ 16 3 (0.156 %) NDS 16 3 (0.156 %) LiteSpeed 17 1 (0.052 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 68 (3.525 %) MOM 2 55 (2.851 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 32 (1.659 %) CONTROL-M 3 32 (1.659 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 23 (1.192 %) Legato 5 22 (1.140 %) Tivoli 6 19 (0.985 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 14 (0.726 %) WSUS 8 11 (0.570 %) MAILsweeper 9 8 (0.415 %) SCCM 9 8 (0.415 %) SCOM 10 6 (0.311 %) MIMEsweeper 10 6 (0.311 %) OpenView Configuration Management 11 5 (0.259 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 4 (0.207 %) OpenView 12 4 (0.207 %) ZENworks 12 4 (0.207 %) OVSD 13 3 (0.156 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 13 3 (0.156 %) Tivoli Monitoring 14 2 (0.104 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 622 (32.24 %) Microsoft 2 430 (22.29 %) Citrix 3 412 (21.36 %) VMware 4 252 (13.06 %) Cisco 5 172 (8.917 %) HP 6 169 (8.761 %) Oracle 7 141 (7.309 %) VERITAS 8 117 (6.065 %) Bloomberg 9 116 (6.013 %) Reuters 10 89 (4.614 %) Symantec 11 88 (4.562 %) Sybase 12 77 (3.992 %) IBM 13 75 (3.888 %) Red Hat 14 65 (3.370 %) Dell 15 59 (3.059 %) EMC 16 52 (2.696 %) CheckPoint 17 44 (2.281 %) Lotus 18 40 (2.074 %) Sun 19 31 (1.607 %) NetApp 20 28 (1.452 %) BMC