South East Windows Server 2003 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 skills within the South East 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	95	87
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	920	981
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.451 %	0.434 %
As % of the category below	8.285 %	8.420 %
Salaries quoted	803	772
Average minimum salary	£31,467	£32,678
Average salary	£33,769	£34,803
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Average maximum salary	£36,070	£36,929
UK excluding London average salary	£31,944	£32,821
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Operating Systems South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	11104	11651
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.444 %	5.158 %
Salaries quoted	9180	9342
Average minimum salary	£33,673	£34,966
Average salary	£36,529	£37,620
% change on same period last year	-2.89 %
Average maximum salary	£39,385	£40,273
UK excluding London average salary	£34,651	£34,981
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Windows Server 2003 England

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 South East 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 South East region.

Windows Server 2003
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 across the South East 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 South East 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	Berkshire	+13	243	£36,915	-3.09 %
2	Surrey	-19	174	£29,900	-7.05 %
3	Hampshire	-18	166	£34,455	+3.21 %
4	Oxfordshire	-28	111	£34,054	-1.98 %
5	Buckinghamshire	+11	81	£31,217	-10.47 %
6	Middlesex	+12	51	£35,359	-12.32 %
7	West Sussex	+35	34	£28,438	-14.01 %
8	M4 Corridor	+28	18	£36,000	-
9	East Sussex	+2	17	£31,813	+17.55 %
10	Kent	-30	16	£33,344	+4.69 %
11	Thames Valley	+23	7	£40,286	+11.51 %

Windows Server 2003 England

Windows Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South East 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 1846 (95.85 %) Windows 2 920 (47.77 %) Active Directory 3 761 (39.51 %) Microsoft 4 579 (30.06 %) MS Exchange 5 562 (29.18 %) Microsoft Certification 6 559 (29.02 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 470 (24.40 %) MCSE 8 429 (22.27 %) Windows 2000 9 377 (19.57 %) SQL Server 10 375 (19.47 %) TCP/IP 11 353 (18.33 %) VMware 12 336 (17.45 %) MS Excel 12 336 (17.45 %) Citrix 13 312 (16.20 %) SQL 14 300 (15.58 %) Windows XP

15 287 (14.90 %) Firewall 16 283 (14.69 %) SAN 17 270 (14.02 %) Cisco 18 232 (12.05 %) MS Office 19 223 (11.58 %) Exchange Server 2000 20 210 (10.90 %) IIS 20 210 (10.90 %) LAN 21 204 (10.59 %) WAN 22 195 (10.12 %) .NET 23 194 (10.07 %) DNS 24 186 (9.657 %) Linux 25 173 (8.982 %) Windows NT 26 163 (8.463 %) MCP 27 162 (8.411 %) HP 28 154 (7.996 %) ITIL

Windows Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South East 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 1 195 (10.12 %) .NET 2 93 (4.829 %) XML 3 82 (4.258 %) ASP 4 69 (3.583 %) HTML 5 61 (3.167 %) ASP.NET 6 28 (1.454 %) ADO 7 24 (1.246 %) CSS 8 21 (1.090 %) ADO.NET 8 21 (1.090 %) ATL 9 20 (1.038 %) WebServices 10 18 (0.935 %) ISPF 11 11 (0.571 %) Application Packaging 12 8 (0.415 %) WebSphere 12 8 (0.415 %) .NET Framework 13 7 (0.363 %) SOAP 14 6 (0.312 %) XSLT 14 6 (0.312 %) SAP Business Workflow 15 5 (0.260 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 5 (0.260 %) JSP 16 4 (0.208 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 579 (30.06 %) MS Exchange 2 559 (29.02 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 223 (11.58 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 210 (10.90 %) IIS 5 135 (7.009 %) SharePoint 6 90 (4.673 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 48 (2.492 %) Lotus Notes 8 27 (1.402 %) Apache 9 25 (1.298 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 22 (1.142 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 16 (0.831 %) Live Communications Server 11 16 (0.831 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 14 (0.727 %) BizTalk Server 13 12 (0.623 %) Lotus Domino 14 10 (0.519 %) GroupWise 15 9 (0.467 %) WebLogic 15 9 (0.467 %) SharePoint Portal Server 16 6 (0.312 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 6 (0.312 %) JBoss 17 4 (0.208 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 336 (17.45 %) MS Excel 2 232 (12.05 %) MS Office 3 11 (0.571 %) MS Visio 4 10 (0.519 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (0.104 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.104 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.052 %) Acrobat 6 1 (0.052 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 18 (0.935 %) Microsoft CRM 2 15 (0.779 %) Dynamics CRM 3 11 (0.571 %) Dynamics GP 4 7 (0.363 %) Line 500 5 5 (0.260 %) Great Plains 6 3 (0.156 %) SoftGrid 7 2 (0.104 %) Oracle Applications 7 2 (0.104 %) Navision 7 2 (0.104 %) SAP HR 7 2 (0.104 %) WebTrends 7 2 (0.104 %) GoldMine 8 1 (0.052 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 8 1 (0.052 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 375 (19.47 %) TCP/IP 2 287 (14.90 %) Firewall 3 283 (14.69 %) SAN 4 210 (10.90 %) LAN 5 204 (10.59 %) WAN 6 194 (10.07 %) DNS 7 136 (7.061 %) DHCP 8 93 (4.829 %) VPN 9 69 (3.583 %) Internet 10 56 (2.908 %) WINS 11 52 (2.700 %) Wireless 12 51 (2.648 %) Network Security 13 45 (2.336 %) SMTP 14 38 (1.973 %) VoIP 15 34 (1.765 %) Ethernet 16 27 (1.402 %) FTP 17 25 (1.298 %) VLAN 18 22 (1.142 %) Cisco PIX 19 20 (1.038 %) HTTP 20 19 (0.987 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 377 (19.57 %) SQL Server 2 144 (7.477 %) SQL Server 2005 3 135 (7.009 %) SQL Server 2000 4 40 (2.077 %) Crystal Reports 5 38 (1.973 %) DB2 5 38 (1.973 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 29 (1.506 %) SQL Server 7 6 29 (1.506 %) MySQL 7 26 (1.350 %) RDBMS 8 14 (0.727 %) DTS 9 12 (0.623 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 9 (0.467 %) BusinessObjects 11 7 (0.363 %) Datawarehouse 12 6 (0.312 %) OLAP 12 6 (0.312 %) Informix 12 6 (0.312 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 5 (0.260 %) EDMS 14 3 (0.156 %) GIS 14 3 (0.156 %) Oracle 10g 14 3 (0.156 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 86 (4.465 %) Visual Studio 2 18 (0.935 %) TestDirector 2 18 (0.935 %) MSI 3 13 (0.675 %) WinRunner 3 13 (0.675 %) LoadRunner 4 10 (0.519 %) Dreamweaver 5 7 (0.363 %) ClearCase 5 7 (0.363 %) StarTeam 5 7 (0.363 %) InstallShield 6 6 (0.312 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 5 (0.260 %) SilkPerformer 8 3 (0.156 %) QuickTest Pro 8 3 (0.156 %) Flash 9 2 (0.104 %) XMLSpy 10 1 (0.052 %) ERwin 10 1 (0.052 %) ClearQuest 10 1 (0.052 %) NUnit	General 1 134 (6.957 %) Finance 2 121 (6.282 %) Pensions 3 86 (4.465 %) Government 4 68 (3.531 %) Education 5 63 (3.271 %) Health 6 59 (3.063 %) Insurance 7 46 (2.388 %) Telecoms 8 28 (1.454 %) Banking 9 23 (1.194 %) Retail 10 22 (1.142 %) Back Office 11 19 (0.987 %) Legal 12 18 (0.935 %) Construction 13 12 (0.623 %) Electronics 13 12 (0.623 %) Manufacturing 14 10 (0.519 %) Pharmaceutical 15 9 (0.467 %) Aerospace 15 9 (0.467 %) Military 16 7 (0.363 %) Law 17 6 (0.312 %) Financial Institution 17 6 (0.312 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 372 (19.31 %) Analyst 2 272 (14.12 %) Support Engineer 3 213 (11.06 %) Support Analyst 4 190 (9.865 %) Administrator 5 144 (7.477 %) Consultant 6 134 (6.957 %) Architect 7 132 (6.854 %) Systems Engineer 8 119 (6.179 %) 3rd Line Support 9 118 (6.127 %) Developer 10 116 (6.023 %) Systems Administrator 11 83 (4.309 %) Technical Support 12 80 (4.154 %) 2nd Line Support 13 78 (4.050 %) Solutions Architect 14 77 (3.998 %) Helpdesk Analyst 15 75 (3.894 %) IT Support Engineer 16 68 (3.531 %) Server Support 17 63 (3.271 %) Desktop Support 18 62 (3.219 %) Infrastructure Engineer 19 59 (3.063 %) Server Engineer 20 57 (2.960 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 79 (4.102 %) Clustering 2 64 (3.323 %) Blackberry 3 52 (2.700 %) Client/Server 4 18 (0.935 %) Cryptography 5 13 (0.675 %) N-Tier 5 13 (0.675 %) Replication 6 11 (0.571 %) PDA 6 11 (0.571 %) Computer Science 7 9 (0.467 %) Management Information System 8 8 (0.415 %) Firmware 8 8 (0.415 %) French Language 9 7 (0.363 %) Mathematics 9 7 (0.363 %) IPTV 9 7 (0.363 %) EMC Centera 9 7 (0.363 %) Asset Management 10 6 (0.312 %) CESG 10 6 (0.312 %) CESG CLAS 11 5 (0.260 %) Thin Client 11 5 (0.260 %) Fat Client 11 5 (0.260 %) Celerra
Operating Systems 1 1846 (95.85 %) Windows 2 429 (22.27 %) Windows 2000 3 300 (15.58 %) Windows XP 4 186 (9.657 %) Linux 5 173 (8.982 %) Windows NT 6 138 (7.165 %) Unix 7 77 (3.998 %) Solaris 8 67 (3.479 %) AIX 9 24 (1.246 %) Windows Mobile 10 21 (1.090 %) HPUX 11 18 (0.935 %) zOS 12 10 (0.519 %) Windows Vista 13 5 (0.260 %) NetWare 14 4 (0.208 %) SUSE 15 3 (0.156 %) OS/400 16 1 (0.052 %) Debian 16 1 (0.052 %) Fedora 16 1 (0.052 %) Windows XP Embedded 16 1 (0.052 %) Windows CE 16 1 (0.052 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 154 (7.996 %) ITIL 2 95 (4.933 %) Service Management 3 78 (4.050 %) Content Management 4 70 (3.634 %) Disaster Recovery 5 62 (3.219 %) Project Management 6 54 (2.804 %) Migration 7 53 (2.752 %) CRM 8 46 (2.388 %) PRINCE2 9 34 (1.765 %) Requirements Analysis 10 32 (1.661 %) Service Delivery 10 32 (1.661 %) ITSM 11 25 (1.298 %) Load Balancing 12 21 (1.090 %) DSDM 13 20 (1.038 %) Workflow 13 20 (1.038 %) Web Development 14 19 (0.987 %) Incident Management 15 17 (0.883 %) E-Commerce 16 16 (0.831 %) Identity Management 17 15 (0.779 %) Document Management 17 15 (0.779 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 312 (16.20 %) SQL 2 76 (3.946 %) C# 3 75 (3.894 %) VB 4 70 (3.634 %) Java 5 66 (3.427 %) JavaScript 6 51 (2.648 %) C++ 7 43 (2.233 %) VBA 8 41 (2.129 %) VBScript 9 35 (1.817 %) Transact-SQL 10 32 (1.661 %) VB6 11 31 (1.610 %) Perl 12 25 (1.298 %) C 13 20 (1.038 %) PHP 14 16 (0.831 %) VB.NET 15 11 (0.571 %) VC++ 16 10 (0.519 %) Shell Script 17 6 (0.312 %) ABAP 18 3 (0.156 %) PL/SQL 18 3 (0.156 %) Delphi 18 3 (0.156 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 562 (29.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 470 (24.40 %) MCSE 3 163 (8.463 %) MCP 4 141 (7.321 %) MCSA 5 111 (5.763 %) Cisco Certification 6 94 (4.881 %) Degree 7 68 (3.531 %) CCNA 8 67 (3.479 %) Citrix Certification 9 47 (2.440 %) CCA 10 40 (2.077 %) A+ Certification 11 30 (1.558 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 26 (1.350 %) CCEA 13 24 (1.246 %) CCNP 14 13 (0.675 %) ITIL Certification 15 12 (0.623 %) PRINCE2 Certification 15 12 (0.623 %) ISEB 16 11 (0.571 %) CCIE 17 9 (0.467 %) Novell Certification 18 7 (0.363 %) HND 18 7 (0.363 %) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 47 (2.440 %) SLA 2 8 (0.415 %) QA 3 2 (0.104 %) JSP 440 4 1 (0.052 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 920 (47.77 %) Active Directory 2 91 (4.725 %) VMware ESX 3 76 (3.946 %) ISA Server 4 68 (3.531 %) Backup Exec 5 62 (3.219 %) Terminal Services 6 58 (3.011 %) MetaFrame 7 38 (1.973 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 33 (1.713 %) NetBackup 9 14 (0.727 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 10 10 (0.519 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 7 (0.363 %) VMware Server 12 4 (0.208 %) NDS 13 3 (0.156 %) Samba 13 3 (0.156 %) Squid 13 3 (0.156 %) Oracle RMAN 14 2 (0.104 %) LiteSpeed 14 2 (0.104 %) NFS 15 1 (0.052 %) Terminal Server 15 1 (0.052 %) Intellisync 15 1 (0.052 %) Snort
Systems Management 1 80 (4.154 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 53 (2.752 %) MOM 3 29 (1.506 %) Tivoli 4 21 (1.090 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 20 (1.038 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 18 (0.935 %) Tivoli NetView 7 17 (0.883 %) Legato 7 17 (0.883 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 15 (0.779 %) OpenView 8 15 (0.779 %) WSUS 9 14 (0.727 %) EMC NetWorker 10 12 (0.623 %) ServiceCenter 11 9 (0.467 %) Unicenter 11 9 (0.467 %) Netcool 12 7 (0.363 %) ARCserve 12 7 (0.363 %) MIMEsweeper 13 6 (0.312 %) DameWare 14 4 (0.208 %) BMC PATROL 15 3 (0.156 %) MAILsweeper 16 2 (0.104 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 761 (39.51 %) Microsoft 2 353 (18.33 %) VMware 3 336 (17.45 %) Citrix 4 270 (14.02 %) Cisco 5 162 (8.411 %) HP 6 115 (5.971 %) Oracle 7 95 (4.933 %) VERITAS 8 52 (2.700 %) Lotus 9 50 (2.596 %) Dell 10 49 (2.544 %) IBM 11 47 (2.440 %) Intel 12 36 (1.869 %) EMC 13 35 (1.817 %) Symantec 14 34 (1.765 %) Red Hat 15 33 (1.713 %) CheckPoint 16 31 (1.610 %) Novell 16 31 (1.610 %) Compaq 17 29 (1.506 %) Sun 18 15 (0.779 %) Nokia 19 14 (0.727 %) Interwoven