The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2003 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Rank 40 37 35
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2003 23 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 5.823% 4.645% 2.827%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.11% 18.48% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 8
Average salary £35,000 £28,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,998 £21,750
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £33,000 £33,738
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Operating Systems
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
79 92 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 20.00% 25.14% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 71 84 60
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £41,396 £43,744
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2003
Leicestershire

Windows Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Windows Server 2003 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 49 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (95.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 34 (69.39%) SQL Server
3 34 (69.39%) Microsoft
4 33 (67.35%) Active Directory
5 32 (65.31%) MS Exchange
6 26 (53.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (48.98%) MCP
8 23 (46.94%) IIS
8 23 (46.94%) Windows XP
9 22 (44.90%) TCP/IP
10 21 (42.86%) VMware
11 18 (36.73%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (32.65%) MS Excel
13 15 (30.61%) VBScript
14 14 (28.57%) SCOM
14 14 (28.57%) Back Office
14 14 (28.57%) vSphere
15 13 (26.53%) Exchange Server 2007
16 12 (24.49%) MCTS
16 12 (24.49%) MCSE
16 12 (24.49%) SQL Server 2000
16 12 (24.49%) Windows Server 2012
17 11 (22.45%) Capacity Management
17 11 (22.45%) Management Information System
18 10 (20.41%) Change Management
18 10 (20.41%) Clustering
18 10 (20.41%) MS Office
18 10 (20.41%) Capacity Planning
19 9 (18.37%) SQL Server 2008

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 3 (6.122%) .NET
1 3 (6.122%) ASP.NET
1 3 (6.122%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.041%) Velocity
2 1 (2.041%) HTML
2 1 (2.041%) JSP
2 1 (2.041%) Web Services
2 1 (2.041%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.041%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 32 (65.31%) MS Exchange
2 23 (46.94%) IIS
3 13 (26.53%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (16.33%) SharePoint
4 8 (16.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 8 (16.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (10.20%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.041%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (2.041%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (2.041%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (32.65%) MS Excel
2 10 (20.41%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) TCP/IP
2 9 (18.37%) Firewall
3 7 (14.29%) FTP
4 5 (10.20%) LAN
4 5 (10.20%) WAN
4 5 (10.20%) DHCP
5 4 (8.163%) VoIP
6 3 (6.122%) SAN
7 2 (4.082%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.082%) Wireless
7 2 (4.082%) VPN
8 1 (2.041%) DNS
8 1 (2.041%) HTTP
8 1 (2.041%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.041%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.041%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (69.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (24.49%) SQL Server 2000
3 9 (18.37%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (18.37%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (10.20%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (4.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.082%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.041%) GitHub
General
1 14 (28.57%) Back Office
2 7 (14.29%) Marketing
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
4 2 (4.082%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Support Engineer
2 18 (36.73%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) IT Support Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) Senior Support Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) IT Support
3 12 (24.49%) Senior IT Support
4 11 (22.45%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (14.29%) Analyst
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Systems Support Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Systems Support
6 5 (10.20%) Support Analyst
7 4 (8.163%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (6.122%) Server Specialist
8 3 (6.122%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (6.122%) Administrator
9 2 (4.082%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.082%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (4.082%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Management Information System
2 10 (20.41%) Clustering
3 3 (6.122%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (95.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (46.94%) Windows XP
4 12 (24.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (16.33%) Windows 2000 Server
5 8 (16.33%) Windows 7
6 6 (12.24%) Windows Vista
6 6 (12.24%) Windows 2000
7 5 (10.20%) Linux
8 1 (2.041%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Capacity Management
2 10 (20.41%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (20.41%) Change Management
3 6 (12.24%) Information Security
3 6 (12.24%) Change Control
3 6 (12.24%) Direct Marketing
3 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
4 5 (10.20%) Incident Management
4 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (8.163%) ITIL
5 4 (8.163%) E-Commerce
5 4 (8.163%) ERP
6 3 (6.122%) Software Deployment
7 2 (4.082%) Migration
8 1 (2.041%) Resource Management
8 1 (2.041%) Project Management
8 1 (2.041%) UML
8 1 (2.041%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) VBScript
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.122%) C#
5 2 (4.082%) VB
6 1 (2.041%) Java
6 1 (2.041%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.041%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (53.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (48.98%) MCP
3 12 (24.49%) MCSE
3 12 (24.49%) MCTS
4 8 (16.33%) MCITP
5 5 (10.20%) Degree
6 2 (4.082%) MCSA
6 2 (4.082%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.082%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.041%) CCAA
7 1 (2.041%) CCA
7 1 (2.041%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.041%) CCEA
7 1 (2.041%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.041%) TickIT
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Active Directory
2 18 (36.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (28.57%) vSphere
4 4 (8.163%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.122%) VMware ESX
5 3 (6.122%) XenDesktop
6 2 (4.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.041%) XenApp
7 1 (2.041%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) SCOM
2 5 (10.20%) SCCM
3 2 (4.082%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (4.082%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 34 (69.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (42.86%) VMware
3 9 (18.37%) Symantec
3 9 (18.37%) HP
4 6 (12.24%) Citrix
5 5 (10.20%) Cisco
5 5 (10.20%) LANDesk
6 4 (8.163%) Dell
7 3 (6.122%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.122%) ProCurve
8 1 (2.041%) Veeam
8 1 (2.041%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.041%) NetApp
8 1 (2.041%) Lotus
8 1 (2.041%) Oracle
8 1 (2.041%) SAP
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