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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 444 511
Rank change year-on-year -135 +67 +75
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 16 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.10% 0.076%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.40% 0.73% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 26
10th Percentile - £438 £268
25th Percentile £161 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year -68.35% +36.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £479
90th Percentile - - £576
UK median daily rate £173 £540 £425
% change year-on-year -68.06% +27.06% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.95 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

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 3,978 3,424 5,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.80% 14.08% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 2,326 3,433
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £310 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -8.29%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £588
90th Percentile £659 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -5.21% +1.60% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 153 362
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.22 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £17.44 £14.83
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +2.27% -41.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.25 £61.20
90th Percentile £74.84 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +106.52% +4.55% -42.86%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2003 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Server 2003 job vacancy trend 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 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 2026. 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
East of England - 8 £173 -
London -49 7 £625 +13.64%
Windows Server 2003
UK

Windows Server 2003
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) IaaS
1 7 (43.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DHCP
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) SMTP
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) LAN
4 2 (12.50%) RS-232
4 2 (12.50%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Support
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Clustering
2 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (43.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 8 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 7 (43.75%) Linux
4 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (18.75%) AIX
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 7 (43.75%) Incident Management
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) MCSE
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) HNC
3 2 (12.50%) HND
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) BitLocker
2 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 7 (43.75%) Hyper-V
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (43.75%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
1 7 (43.75%) Puppet
1 7 (43.75%) vCenter Server
1 7 (43.75%) vMotion
2 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) Citrix
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
4 7 (43.75%) NetApp
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) IBM
6 1 (6.25%) Infoblox