The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Essex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Rank 38 51 26
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -25
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2003 44 65 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 4.627% 4.666% 7.364%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.15% 16.67% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 33 54 82
Average salary £32,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,700 £24,300 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £49,400 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Operating Systems
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
311 390 306
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 32.70% 28.00% 23.72%
Number of salaries quoted 255 312 260
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2003
East of England

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Essex Windows Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2003
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Essex region.

Essex Windows Server 2003 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2003
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Essex Windows Server 2003 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2003
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basildon -11 11 £37,500 -23.07%
Brentwood -11 4 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 4 £44,000 -
Chelmsford +21 3 £22,500 -
Colchester +2 1 £27,500 -27.63%
Dunmow - 1 £20,000 -
Windows Server 2003
East of England

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 71 (100.00%) Windows
2 59 (83.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 41 (57.75%) Active Directory
4 37 (52.11%) Microsoft
5 33 (46.48%) VMware
6 31 (43.66%) MS Exchange
7 24 (33.80%) SQL
7 24 (33.80%) Exchange Server 2003
8 22 (30.99%) SQL Server
9 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (23.94%) Citrix
10 17 (23.94%) VMware Infrastructure
10 17 (23.94%) Exchange Server 2010
11 16 (22.54%) Windows 7
11 16 (22.54%) Windows XP
11 16 (22.54%) Oracle
12 15 (21.13%) MS Excel
12 15 (21.13%) vSphere
12 15 (21.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (18.31%) MCITP
13 13 (18.31%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (18.31%) Blackberry
13 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
13 13 (18.31%) Cisco
14 12 (16.90%) Oracle 8/8i
14 12 (16.90%) ITIL
14 12 (16.90%) Finance
14 12 (16.90%) SQL Server 2008
15 11 (15.49%) SQL Server 2005
15 11 (15.49%) Change Control

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 7 (9.859%) HTML
1 7 (9.859%) .NET
2 5 (7.042%) ASP.NET
2 5 (7.042%) CSS
2 5 (7.042%) NHibernate
2 5 (7.042%) WCF
2 5 (7.042%) jQuery
2 5 (7.042%) LINQ to SQL
3 4 (5.634%) VXML
3 4 (5.634%) WinForms
3 4 (5.634%) XML
3 4 (5.634%) XSL
4 3 (4.225%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.817%) WPF
5 2 (2.817%) Silverlight
5 2 (2.817%) Ninject
5 2 (2.817%) Autofac
6 1 (1.408%) Middleware
6 1 (1.408%) COM
Application Platforms
1 31 (43.66%) MS Exchange
2 24 (33.80%) Exchange Server 2003
3 17 (23.94%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (14.08%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (12.68%) IIS
6 4 (5.634%) MSMQ
6 4 (5.634%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.408%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.408%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (21.13%) MS Excel
2 7 (9.859%) MS Office
3 2 (2.817%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) DNS
2 9 (12.68%) LAN
2 9 (12.68%) WAN
3 7 (9.859%) DHCP
3 7 (9.859%) SAN
4 6 (8.451%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.042%) Firewall
6 4 (5.634%) Cisco ICM
6 4 (5.634%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (5.634%) FTP
7 3 (4.225%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.817%) Wireless
8 2 (2.817%) VPN
8 2 (2.817%) ADSL
9 1 (1.408%) LDAP
9 1 (1.408%) SMTP
9 1 (1.408%) HTTP
9 1 (1.408%) Internet
9 1 (1.408%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (21.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (16.90%) Oracle 8/8i
3 12 (16.90%) SQL Server 2008
4 11 (15.49%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (14.08%) SQL Server 2012
5 10 (14.08%) Oracle 10g
5 10 (14.08%) SQL Server 2000
5 10 (14.08%) Oracle 11g
5 10 (14.08%) MySQL
5 10 (14.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (12.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 9 (12.68%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 5 (7.042%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.634%) Subversion
3 2 (2.817%) NUnit
4 1 (1.408%) WebLOAD
4 1 (1.408%) MSI
General
1 12 (16.90%) Finance
2 7 (9.859%) Law
3 1 (1.408%) Banking
3 1 (1.408%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Analyst
2 11 (15.49%) DBA
2 11 (15.49%) Support Engineer
2 11 (15.49%) SQL DBA
3 9 (12.68%) Support Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Administrator
5 7 (9.859%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.859%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (7.042%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (7.042%) Developer
6 5 (7.042%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (7.042%) SQL Server DBA
7 4 (5.634%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (5.634%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.634%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (5.634%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (4.225%) Server Analyst
8 3 (4.225%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.225%) Server Administrator
8 3 (4.225%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Blackberry
2 7 (9.859%) Clustering
3 5 (7.042%) iPhone
4 4 (5.634%) RIA
4 4 (5.634%) Computer Science
4 4 (5.634%) Replication
5 2 (2.817%) Statistics
6 1 (1.408%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.408%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.408%) EMC Centera
6 1 (1.408%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.408%) Celerra
6 1 (1.408%) Data Integration
6 1 (1.408%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Windows
2 59 (83.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (22.54%) Windows 7
3 16 (22.54%) Windows XP
4 13 (18.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (14.08%) Linux
6 9 (12.68%) Windows Vista
7 8 (11.27%) Windows 8
8 5 (7.042%) Windows 2000 Server
8 5 (7.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.634%) Windows 2000
10 3 (4.225%) Solaris
11 2 (2.817%) UNIX
12 1 (1.408%) AIX
12 1 (1.408%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.90%) ITIL
2 11 (15.49%) Change Control
3 9 (12.68%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
4 5 (7.042%) MVC
5 4 (5.634%) Programme Management
5 4 (5.634%) TOGAF
5 4 (5.634%) Six Sigma
5 4 (5.634%) PRINCE2
5 4 (5.634%) Service Management
6 3 (4.225%) Unit Testing
6 3 (4.225%) High Availability
6 3 (4.225%) Code Coverage
6 3 (4.225%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (2.817%) ERP
7 2 (2.817%) Incident Management
7 2 (2.817%) Load Balancing
7 2 (2.817%) Capacity Management
7 2 (2.817%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.817%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) SQL
2 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
3 6 (8.451%) VB
4 5 (7.042%) Tcl
4 5 (7.042%) C#
5 4 (5.634%) C++
5 4 (5.634%) Java
5 4 (5.634%) VB6
5 4 (5.634%) XPath
5 4 (5.634%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.634%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.408%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (18.31%) MCITP
3 10 (14.08%) MCDBA
4 5 (7.042%) Degree
5 4 (5.634%) MCSE
5 4 (5.634%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.634%) CCNA
5 4 (5.634%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.408%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.408%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (57.75%) Active Directory
2 17 (23.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (21.13%) vSphere
4 6 (8.451%) XenApp
5 5 (7.042%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.042%) DFS Replication
6 2 (2.817%) MetaFrame
6 2 (2.817%) Xen
6 2 (2.817%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.408%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.408%) XenServer
7 1 (1.408%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.408%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.408%) MDaemon
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Backup Exec
2 7 (9.859%) NetBackup
3 5 (7.042%) SCCM
4 4 (5.634%) SCOM
4 4 (5.634%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.408%) HP SIM
5 1 (1.408%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 33 (46.48%) VMware
3 17 (23.94%) Citrix
4 16 (22.54%) Oracle
5 13 (18.31%) Cisco
6 11 (15.49%) Symantec
7 9 (12.68%) EMC
8 8 (11.27%) HP
9 6 (8.451%) NetApp
10 5 (7.042%) Red Hat
11 4 (5.634%) Apple
11 4 (5.634%) 3PAR
12 3 (4.225%) Dell
13 2 (2.817%) McAfee
14 1 (1.408%) Clearswift
14 1 (1.408%) Wyse
14 1 (1.408%) Brocade
14 1 (1.408%) LANDesk
14 1 (1.408%) CA
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