Windows Server 2003 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 199 215
Rank change year-on-year +51 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 11 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.15% 0.61% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £511 £438 £318
25th Percentile £516 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -4.52% +19.52%
75th Percentile £600 - £611
90th Percentile - - £656
England median daily rate £550 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the South East

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the South East

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the South East

Windows Server 2003
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire - 6 £588 - 3
Thames Valley - 5 £532 -
Berkshire - 5 £532 -
Windows Server 2003
England

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (45.45%) IIS
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (27.27%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (27.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (72.73%) SMTP
3 6 (54.55%) DHCP
3 6 (54.55%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) NetScaler
5 3 (27.27%) DDNS
5 3 (27.27%) Firewall
5 3 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (45.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Support
4 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
1 8 (72.73%) PKI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
1 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Content Management
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Search
1 3 (27.27%) High Availability
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
1 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
1 3 (27.27%) Software Deployment
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) XenApp
2 5 (45.45%) XenDesktop
3 3 (27.27%) BitLocker
3 3 (27.27%) Brightmail
3 3 (27.27%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (27.27%) ISA Server
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (27.27%) Terminal Services
3 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (45.45%) WSUS
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Nagios
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
3 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
3 3 (27.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) Dell
4 3 (27.27%) Google
4 3 (27.27%) Symantec