England Windows Server 2003 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the England 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bude Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Flintshire Frome Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Hounslow Hull Ilford Inverness Jersey Keighley Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kinross Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lymington M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Milton Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Okehampton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thetford Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westerham Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Winsford Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	128
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	3519	3175
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.725 %	1.406 %
As % of the category below	7.259 %	6.019 %
Salaries quoted	3054	2598
Average minimum salary	£33,553	£33,550
Average salary	£35,600	£35,497
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Average maximum salary	£37,647	£37,445
UK excluding London average salary	£31,944	£32,821
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	48478	52753
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.77 %	23.35 %
Salaries quoted	40434	41791
Average minimum salary	£36,778	£37,627
Average salary	£39,772	£40,773
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum salary	£42,766	£43,919
UK excluding London average salary	£34,651	£34,981
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Windows Server 2003 UK

Windows Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows Server 2003 across the England 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 ads citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region.

Windows Server 2003
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the England region over the past 3 months.

Windows Server 2003
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+41	1547	£40,618	+3.51 %
2	South East	-8	920	£33,769	-2.97 %
3	East of England	+18	231	£33,065	+9.15 %
4	Yorkshire	+18	229	£26,598	-11.45 %
5	South West	+14	216	£30,700	-1.54 %
6	North West	+2	170	£27,571	-0.28 %
7	West Midlands	-26	106	£32,439	-2.87 %
8	East Midlands	+10	87	£28,560	-4.60 %
9	North East	-7	21	£26,528	-15.63 %
10	Midlands	-12	16	£35,500	+5.65 %

Windows Server 2003 UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Windows Server 2003 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows Server 2003.

1 7084 (98.28 %) Windows 2 3202 (44.42 %) Active Directory 3 2551 (35.39 %) Microsoft 4 2208 (30.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1943 (26.96 %) MS Exchange 6 1798 (24.94 %) SQL Server 7 1774 (24.61 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1514 (21.00 %) TCP/IP 9 1484 (20.59 %) MCSE 10 1438 (19.95 %) SQL 11 1388 (19.26 %) MS Excel 12 1273 (17.66 %) Citrix 13 1213 (16.83 %) Windows 2000 14 1206 (16.73 %) Windows XP 15 1055 (14.64 %) MS Office

16 1047 (14.53 %) Finance 17 1043 (14.47 %) Firewall 18 1034 (14.35 %) Cisco 19 994 (13.79 %) IIS 20 985 (13.67 %) Linux 21 939 (13.03 %) LAN 22 926 (12.85 %) WAN 23 845 (11.72 %) VMware 24 821 (11.39 %) SAN 25 799 (11.08 %) DNS 26 775 (10.75 %) Exchange Server 2000 27 644 (8.935 %) Unix 28 632 (8.768 %) .NET 29 606 (8.407 %) SQL Server 2000 30 589 (8.171 %) SQL Server 2005

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Windows Server 2003 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 632 (8.768 %) .NET 2 296 (4.107 %) XML 3 286 (3.968 %) ASP 4 283 (3.926 %) ASP.NET 5 256 (3.552 %) HTML 6 132 (1.831 %) WebServices 7 122 (1.693 %) CSS 8 64 (0.888 %) WinForms 9 63 (0.874 %) ADO.NET 10 47 (0.652 %) J2EE 11 46 (0.638 %) ADO 12 45 (0.624 %) .NET Framework 13 42 (0.583 %) WebSphere 14 32 (0.444 %) AJAX 14 32 (0.444 %) XSLT 15 28 (0.388 %) ATL 16 26 (0.361 %) XHTML 17 25 (0.347 %) SAP Basis 17 25 (0.347 %) COM+ 17 25 (0.347 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 2208 (30.63 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1943 (26.96 %) MS Exchange 3 994 (13.79 %) IIS 4 775 (10.75 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 407 (5.647 %) SharePoint 6 366 (5.078 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 200 (2.775 %) Lotus Notes 8 168 (2.331 %) Apache 9 108 (1.498 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 99 (1.373 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 59 (0.819 %) CMS 12 54 (0.749 %) Lotus Domino 13 53 (0.735 %) Tomcat 13 53 (0.735 %) GroupWise 14 51 (0.708 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 35 (0.486 %) BizTalk Server 16 28 (0.388 %) JBoss 17 27 (0.375 %) WebLogic 18 25 (0.347 %) WorkSite 19 19 (0.264 %) Live Communications Server
Applications 1 1388 (19.26 %) MS Excel 2 1055 (14.64 %) MS Office 3 44 (0.610 %) MS Visio 4 32 (0.444 %) Photoshop 5 30 (0.416 %) MS PowerPoint 6 10 (0.139 %) Paint Shop Pro 6 10 (0.139 %) MS Project 6 10 (0.139 %) RoboHelp 7 8 (0.111 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 5 (0.069 %) Fireworks 9 3 (0.042 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.028 %) QuarkXPress 10 2 (0.028 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.014 %) 3ds Max 11 1 (0.014 %) InDesign 11 1 (0.014 %) InfoPath 11 1 (0.014 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 30 (0.416 %) Microsoft CRM 2 15 (0.208 %) Navision 2 15 (0.208 %) Summit 2 15 (0.208 %) Dynamics CRM 3 12 (0.166 %) SoftGrid 4 11 (0.153 %) Dynamics GP 5 10 (0.139 %) Oracle Applications 6 9 (0.125 %) GoldMine 6 9 (0.125 %) assyst 7 8 (0.111 %) Line 500 8 7 (0.097 %) Oracle 11i 9 6 (0.083 %) SalesLogix 10 5 (0.069 %) RMDS 10 5 (0.069 %) Fidessa 10 5 (0.069 %) Great Plains 11 4 (0.055 %) SAP Business One 12 3 (0.042 %) SageBI 12 3 (0.042 %) SAP Oil and Gas 12 3 (0.042 %) Academy Housing 12 3 (0.042 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 1514 (21.00 %) TCP/IP 2 1043 (14.47 %) Firewall 3 939 (13.03 %) LAN 4 926 (12.85 %) WAN 5 821 (11.39 %) SAN 6 799 (11.08 %) DNS 7 543 (7.533 %) VPN 8 501 (6.951 %) DHCP 9 427 (5.924 %) Internet 10 212 (2.941 %) WINS 11 190 (2.636 %) VoIP 12 184 (2.553 %) Wireless 13 169 (2.345 %) Network Security 14 143 (1.984 %) SMTP 15 121 (1.679 %) Intranet 16 77 (1.068 %) Cisco PIX 17 75 (1.041 %) Ethernet 18 70 (0.971 %) IPsec 19 66 (0.916 %) VLAN 20 57 (0.791 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1798 (24.94 %) SQL Server 2 606 (8.407 %) SQL Server 2000 3 589 (8.171 %) SQL Server 2005 4 212 (2.941 %) SQL Server 7 5 125 (1.734 %) MySQL 6 121 (1.679 %) RDBMS 7 99 (1.373 %) Crystal Reports 8 94 (1.304 %) Oracle 10g 9 57 (0.791 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 56 (0.777 %) DTS 11 54 (0.749 %) DB2 12 49 (0.680 %) Datawarehouse 13 48 (0.666 %) Oracle 9i 14 42 (0.583 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 28 (0.388 %) BusinessObjects 16 27 (0.375 %) Informix 17 25 (0.347 %) OLAP 17 25 (0.347 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 17 (0.236 %) FileMaker 19 16 (0.222 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 207 (2.872 %) Visual Studio 2 42 (0.583 %) MSI 3 31 (0.430 %) InstallShield 4 25 (0.347 %) Flash 4 25 (0.347 %) LoadRunner 5 23 (0.319 %) TestDirector 6 22 (0.305 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 19 (0.264 %) WinRunner 8 17 (0.236 %) Subversion 9 16 (0.222 %) PVCS 9 16 (0.222 %) Dreamweaver 10 14 (0.194 %) Oracle Forms 11 9 (0.125 %) Oracle Developer 2000 12 8 (0.111 %) QuickTest Pro 12 8 (0.111 %) ClearCase 13 7 (0.097 %) JUnit 13 7 (0.097 %) StarTeam 14 5 (0.069 %) SilkPerformer 14 5 (0.069 %) FrontPage 15 4 (0.055 %) WebLOAD	General 1 1047 (14.53 %) Finance 2 369 (5.119 %) Banking 3 337 (4.675 %) Pensions 4 225 (3.122 %) Health 5 194 (2.691 %) Law 6 186 (2.580 %) Telecoms 7 179 (2.483 %) Education 8 155 (2.150 %) Back Office 9 151 (2.095 %) Investment Banking 10 139 (1.928 %) Insurance 11 125 (1.734 %) Government 12 106 (1.471 %) Legal 13 105 (1.457 %) Retail 14 71 (0.985 %) Games 15 68 (0.943 %) Construction 16 54 (0.749 %) Manufacturing 17 51 (0.708 %) Electronics 18 49 (0.680 %) Marketing 19 47 (0.652 %) Financial Institution 20 39 (0.541 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 1407 (19.52 %) Analyst 2 942 (13.07 %) Administrator 3 918 (12.74 %) Support Analyst 4 781 (10.84 %) Support Engineer 5 522 (7.242 %) Systems Administrator 6 484 (6.715 %) Consultant 7 416 (5.771 %) Developer 8 400 (5.549 %) 3rd Line Support 9 377 (5.230 %) Network Engineer 10 351 (4.870 %) Systems Engineer 11 320 (4.440 %) Technical Support 11 320 (4.440 %) Desktop Support 12 316 (4.384 %) Server Support 13 266 (3.690 %) DBA 14 256 (3.552 %) 2nd Line Support 15 220 (3.052 %) Architect 16 208 (2.886 %) Server Engineer 17 207 (2.872 %) Technical Analyst 18 183 (2.539 %) SQL DBA 19 182 (2.525 %) IT Manager	Miscellaneous 1 399 (5.536 %) Clustering 2 317 (4.398 %) Blackberry 3 157 (2.178 %) Client/Server 4 91 (1.262 %) Replication 5 79 (1.096 %) N-Tier 6 71 (0.985 %) Thin Client 6 71 (0.985 %) Fat Client 7 60 (0.832 %) Computer Science 8 48 (0.666 %) Asset Management 9 40 (0.555 %) PDA 10 37 (0.513 %) French Language 10 37 (0.513 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 11 32 (0.444 %) Management Information System 12 27 (0.375 %) AS400 12 27 (0.375 %) German Language 13 26 (0.361 %) Derivative 14 25 (0.347 %) Fixed Income 15 24 (0.333 %) Multithreading 16 21 (0.291 %) Equities 17 20 (0.277 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 7084 (98.28 %) Windows 2 1213 (16.83 %) Windows 2000 3 1206 (16.73 %) Windows XP 4 985 (13.67 %) Linux 5 644 (8.935 %) Unix 6 358 (4.967 %) Windows NT 7 295 (4.093 %) Solaris 8 113 (1.568 %) AIX 9 112 (1.554 %) HPUX 10 69 (0.957 %) Mac OS X 11 68 (0.943 %) NetWare 12 46 (0.638 %) Windows Vista 13 42 (0.583 %) Mac OS X Server 14 28 (0.388 %) Windows Mobile 15 21 (0.291 %) Fedora 16 19 (0.264 %) Debian 17 18 (0.250 %) zOS 18 10 (0.139 %) Slackware 18 10 (0.139 %) SUSE 19 8 (0.111 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 492 (6.826 %) ITIL 2 260 (3.607 %) Project Management 3 219 (3.038 %) Disaster Recovery 4 187 (2.594 %) Migration 5 149 (2.067 %) Service Management 6 136 (1.887 %) E-Commerce 7 124 (1.720 %) Service Delivery 7 124 (1.720 %) Content Management 8 105 (1.457 %) Change Management 9 98 (1.360 %) CRM 10 94 (1.304 %) OO 11 85 (1.179 %) PRINCE2 12 75 (1.041 %) Web Development 13 73 (1.013 %) ERP 14 69 (0.957 %) Network Design 14 69 (0.957 %) Load Balancing 15 62 (0.860 %) Incident Management 16 55 (0.763 %) Configuration Management 17 47 (0.652 %) Problem Management 18 44 (0.610 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 1438 (19.95 %) SQL 2 301 (4.176 %) C# 3 279 (3.871 %) VB 4 207 (2.872 %) JavaScript 5 165 (2.289 %) Java 6 155 (2.150 %) Transact-SQL 7 151 (2.095 %) C 8 150 (2.081 %) C++ 9 138 (1.915 %) VBScript 10 123 (1.706 %) Perl 11 77 (1.068 %) VB.NET 12 74 (1.027 %) VBA 13 68 (0.943 %) PHP 14 40 (0.555 %) VB6 15 35 (0.486 %) Python 16 34 (0.472 %) PL/SQL 17 33 (0.458 %) Shell Script 18 20 (0.277 %) DHTML 19 17 (0.236 %) VC++ 20 15 (0.208 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 1774 (24.61 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1484 (20.59 %) MCSE 3 473 (6.562 %) MCP 4 470 (6.521 %) Degree 5 343 (4.759 %) MCSA 6 293 (4.065 %) Cisco Certification 7 211 (2.927 %) CCNA 8 174 (2.414 %) Citrix Certification 9 132 (1.831 %) CCA 10 105 (1.457 %) CCEA 11 83 (1.151 %) CCNP 12 72 (0.999 %) A+ Certification 13 46 (0.638 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 45 (0.624 %) ITIL Certification 15 36 (0.499 %) HND 16 26 (0.361 %) CCIE 17 25 (0.347 %) MCT 18 23 (0.319 %) CISSP 19 21 (0.291 %) ISEB 20 19 (0.264 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 192 (2.664 %) SLA 2 22 (0.305 %) QA 3 13 (0.180 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 4 (0.055 %) ISO9001 4 4 (0.055 %) ISO9002 5 3 (0.042 %) BS7799 6 2 (0.028 %) ISO27001 6 2 (0.028 %) JSP 440 6 2 (0.028 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 3202 (44.42 %) Active Directory 2 286 (3.968 %) Backup Exec 3 231 (3.205 %) ISA Server 4 198 (2.747 %) Terminal Services 5 172 (2.386 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 171 (2.372 %) VMware ESX 7 145 (2.012 %) MetaFrame 8 129 (1.790 %) NetBackup 9 51 (0.708 %) Terminal Server 10 28 (0.388 %) VMware Server 11 25 (0.347 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 24 (0.333 %) Oracle RAC 13 14 (0.194 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 14 (0.194 %) VMware Workstation 13 14 (0.194 %) Oracle RMAN 14 11 (0.153 %) Nmap 15 10 (0.139 %) NDS 16 7 (0.097 %) Samba 16 7 (0.097 %) NFS 17 6 (0.083 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 232 (3.219 %) MOM 2 202 (2.802 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 74 (1.027 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 69 (0.957 %) Tivoli 5 67 (0.930 %) Legato 6 62 (0.860 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 51 (0.708 %) OpenView 8 38 (0.527 %) ARCserve 9 31 (0.430 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 28 (0.388 %) WSUS 11 21 (0.291 %) Nagios 12 19 (0.264 %) EMC NetWorker 12 19 (0.264 %) MIMEsweeper 13 18 (0.250 %) Tivoli NetView 14 16 (0.222 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 15 15 (0.208 %) ZENworks 15 15 (0.208 %) ServiceCenter 16 14 (0.194 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 17 13 (0.180 %) AutoSys 18 12 (0.166 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 2551 (35.39 %) Microsoft 2 1273 (17.66 %) Citrix 3 1034 (14.35 %) Cisco 4 845 (11.72 %) VMware 5 510 (7.075 %) HP 6 503 (6.978 %) Oracle 7 336 (4.661 %) VERITAS 8 226 (3.135 %) Lotus 9 172 (2.386 %) IBM 10 168 (2.331 %) Red Hat 11 155 (2.150 %) Symantec 12 147 (2.039 %) CheckPoint 13 125 (1.734 %) Novell 14 123 (1.706 %) EMC 15 120 (1.665 %) Dell 16 92 (1.276 %) Intel 16 92 (1.276 %) Bloomberg 17 91 (1.262 %) Reuters 18 90 (1.249 %) Sun 19 81 (1.124 %) McAfee Security