Windows Server 2003 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2003 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 511 556
Rank change year-on-year +30 +45 +131
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 38 15 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.99% 0.32% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 34
10th Percentile £171 £208 £190
25th Percentile £375 £317 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £470 £520
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% -9.62% +27.61%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £561
90th Percentile £638 £588 £656
UK median daily rate £575 £470 £520
% change year-on-year +22.34% -9.62% +27.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.58
25th Percentile - - £14.18
Median hourly rate - - £15.56
75th Percentile - - £17.00
90th Percentile - - £17.64
UK median hourly rate - - £15.56
% change year-on-year - - -77.03%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2003 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,832 4,724 6,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 14.34% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 3,010 4,591
10th Percentile £189 £200 £186
25th Percentile £289 £330 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £680 £719
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 231 337
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.40 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +20.22% +100.04%
75th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in England

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2003.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2003 in England

Windows Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2003.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +39 21 £600 +26.32% 2
East of England +3 6 £171 -66.14% 1
North of England -23 6 - -
North West - 6 - -
London - 3 £550 -
South West +18 2 £600 +3.67%
Windows Server 2003
UK

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (36.84%) SharePoint
3 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2007
3 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (34.21%) Office Communications Server
3 13 (34.21%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (34.21%) Skype for Business
4 5 (13.16%) Confluence
5 2 (5.26%) Documentum
Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) GCP
2 4 (10.53%) IaaS
2 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
2 4 (10.53%) PaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (71.05%) VPN
2 24 (63.16%) DHCP
2 24 (63.16%) DNS
3 16 (42.11%) SAN
4 13 (34.21%) DDNS
5 6 (15.79%) Firewall
5 6 (15.79%) LAN
5 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
6 5 (13.16%) SMTP
6 5 (13.16%) SSL
6 5 (13.16%) VLAN
7 2 (5.26%) Network Security
7 2 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.53%) Big Data
2 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
General
1 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Support Engineer
2 13 (34.21%) Exchange Engineer
2 13 (34.21%) Exchange Support
3 11 (28.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) 3rd Line Support
4 9 (23.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) IT Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) IT Support
5 5 (13.16%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Technical Support
5 5 (13.16%) Technical Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Replication
2 5 (13.16%) Clustering
2 5 (13.16%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (39.47%) Windows Server
3 9 (23.68%) Windows 10
3 9 (23.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (18.42%) Linux
5 6 (15.79%) Windows 7
6 5 (13.16%) AIX
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (10.53%) Windows 8
7 4 (10.53%) Windows XP
8 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.63%) CentOS
9 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) ITIL
2 13 (34.21%) Architectural Design
2 13 (34.21%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (34.21%) Content Management
2 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Content Management
2 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Search
2 13 (34.21%) High Availability
3 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
4 6 (15.79%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (13.16%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Business Case
6 4 (10.53%) DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.53%) Software Deployment
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Analysis
6 4 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (44.74%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (34.21%) Brightmail
2 13 (34.21%) ISA Server
3 11 (28.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (13.16%) BitLocker
5 5 (13.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (13.16%) Terminal Services
5 5 (13.16%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (13.16%) vSphere
6 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (18.42%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.16%) Tivoli
3 5 (13.16%) vMotion
4 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.53%) Nagios
4 4 (10.53%) Puppet
4 4 (10.53%) SCCM
5 2 (5.26%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (39.47%) Citrix
3 13 (34.21%) VMware
4 7 (18.42%) Veeam
5 6 (15.79%) Symantec
6 5 (13.16%) Oracle
6 5 (13.16%) SolarWinds
7 4 (10.53%) Canon
7 4 (10.53%) Google
7 4 (10.53%) HP
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco
8 2 (5.26%) EMC
8 2 (5.26%) McAfee
8 2 (5.26%) Sophos