Windows Server 2003 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2003 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 590 653
Rank change year-on-year +85 +63 -91
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 28 57 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.077% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.56% 0.72% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 76
10th Percentile £268 £190 £204
25th Percentile £350 £395 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +8.28%
75th Percentile £479 £530 £541
90th Percentile £576 £629 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £17.30
25th Percentile - - £22.63
Median hourly rate - - £28.41
75th Percentile - - £47.02
90th Percentile - - £62.91
UK median hourly rate - - £28.41
% change year-on-year - - +64.36%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2003 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,962 7,940 11,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 16.29% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 5,617 7,596
10th Percentile £185 £194 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £623
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -7.24% +0.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 380 540
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.49
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.78 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.80%
75th Percentile £60.40 £65.00 £51.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.59% +73.33% +26.62%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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
London +79 12 £380 -24.00%
South East +20 6 £475 -4.52% 5
East of England +10 4 £505 +18.82% 3
North of England +20 2 £500 +163.16% 2
South West +7 2 £579 +36.18%
Midlands +22 1 £160 -71.81% 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £400 +41.59%
East Midlands +17 1 £160 -
North East +12 1 £600 +406.33%
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 19 (67.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (60.71%) Exchange Server 2010
3 15 (53.57%) Exchange Server 2007
4 14 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (32.14%) Skype for Business
7 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) DNS
1 9 (32.14%) Skype
2 8 (28.57%) DHCP
3 6 (21.43%) Firewall
4 4 (14.29%) SMTP
5 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.57%) PBX
5 1 (3.57%) PSTN
5 1 (3.57%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Field Support Technician
5 1 (3.57%) Junior
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) BYOD
3 1 (3.57%) iPad
3 1 (3.57%) iPhone
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) PDA
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (64.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (53.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (46.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
6 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
7 4 (14.29%) Linux
7 4 (14.29%) Windows 2000
8 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (7.14%) Unix
10 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
10 1 (3.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
5 3 (10.71%) High Availability
6 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.14%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (7.14%) Project Management
6 2 (7.14%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.14%) Runbook
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.57%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (3.57%) Inventory Management
7 1 (3.57%) ITSM
7 1 (3.57%) Project Delivery
7 1 (3.57%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) VBScript
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) MCP
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) XenApp
3 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.57%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.57%) DFS Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.57%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) SCCM
2 3 (10.71%) MAILsweeper
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.14%) SCOM
4 1 (3.57%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) Citrix
2 7 (25.00%) Symantec
3 6 (21.43%) Ivanti
3 6 (21.43%) VMware
4 5 (17.86%) Trend Micro
5 4 (14.29%) HP
6 3 (10.71%) IronPort
6 3 (10.71%) Sophos
7 2 (7.14%) Huawei
7 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.57%) Dell
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.57%) Intel
8 1 (3.57%) Peregrine
8 1 (3.57%) Remedy
8 1 (3.57%) Veritas