Windows Server 2003 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2003 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 524 589
Rank change year-on-year +62 +65 +92
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 36 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.98% 0.54% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 41
10th Percentile £366 £268 £190
25th Percentile £406 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £479 £530
90th Percentile £603 £558 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.26% +10.59%

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 3,691 5,196 7,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.90% 13.96% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,423 5,406
10th Percentile £200 £193 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 395 367
10th Percentile £15.33 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.12 £18.44
Median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -41.18% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% -41.18% +88.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in England

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2003 in England

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in England

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 6 July 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 +54 19 £550 +15.79% 8
North of England - 9 £350 - 4
North West - 8 - - 1
South West +40 3 £600 +3.67% 1
London +27 3 £550 +44.74% 7
East of England +25 1 £171 -66.14% 5
Midlands +12 1 £535 +18.89%
West Midlands +7 1 £535 +7.00%
North East - 1 £350 -
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 12 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (19.44%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (19.44%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (19.44%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (19.44%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (19.44%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (19.44%) SharePoint
2 7 (19.44%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (19.44%) Skype for Business
3 5 (13.89%) Confluence
3 5 (13.89%) IIS
4 2 (5.56%) Documentum
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (13.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) IaaS
3 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (66.67%) DNS
2 22 (61.11%) VPN
3 18 (50.00%) DHCP
4 10 (27.78%) SAN
4 10 (27.78%) SMTP
5 8 (22.22%) LAN
6 7 (19.44%) DDNS
7 5 (13.89%) Firewall
7 5 (13.89%) NetScaler
7 5 (13.89%) SSL
7 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
7 5 (13.89%) VLAN
8 3 (8.33%) Network Security
8 3 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.11%) Big Data
1 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Support Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Exchange Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Exchange Support
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (13.89%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support
5 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) PKI
2 11 (30.56%) Clustering
3 7 (19.44%) Replication
4 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
5 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (61.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (19.44%) Linux
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (13.89%) Windows 8
5 5 (13.89%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.78%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) ITIL
2 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 8 (22.22%) Proactive Maintenance
4 7 (19.44%) Architectural Design
4 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (19.44%) Content Management
4 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Content Management
4 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Search
4 7 (19.44%) High Availability
5 5 (13.89%) Business Case
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
5 5 (13.89%) Technical Analysis
5 5 (13.89%) Time Management
6 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 4 (11.11%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (30.56%) Hyper-V
2 11 (30.56%) vSphere
3 7 (19.44%) Brightmail
3 7 (19.44%) ISA Server
4 6 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (13.89%) BitLocker
5 5 (13.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (13.89%) Terminal Services
5 5 (13.89%) XenApp
5 5 (13.89%) XenDesktop
6 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 9 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 7 (19.44%) SCCM
4 6 (16.67%) WSUS
5 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (13.89%) Tivoli
5 5 (13.89%) vMotion
6 4 (11.11%) Ansible
6 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
6 4 (11.11%) Nagios
6 4 (11.11%) Puppet
7 3 (8.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 27 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (55.56%) VMware
3 16 (44.44%) Citrix
4 9 (25.00%) HP
5 8 (22.22%) Veeam
6 7 (19.44%) Symantec
7 5 (13.89%) Canon
7 5 (13.89%) Dell
7 5 (13.89%) SolarWinds
8 4 (11.11%) Google
9 3 (8.33%) Cisco
10 2 (5.56%) EMC
10 2 (5.56%) McAfee
10 2 (5.56%) Sophos
11 1 (2.78%) Oracle
11 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.78%) Veritas