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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 190 208
Rank change year-on-year +47 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 20 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.37% 0.63% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 5
10th Percentile £375 £438 £299
25th Percentile £438 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +16.56%
75th Percentile £600 - £530
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% +10.12%

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 594 953 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 17.44% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 607 763
10th Percentile £193 £205 £195
25th Percentile £300 £350 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 60 67
10th Percentile £15.12 £16.23 £16.10
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £21.24
Median hourly rate £18.87 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.29% -11.36% +223.53%
75th Percentile £28.00 £70.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £62.13 £73.88 £73.73
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.13 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% -40.88% +91.01%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the South East over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 20 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
Hampshire - 11 £600 - 4
Kent - 5 £375 -
Thames Valley - 4 £538 - 3
Berkshire - 4 £538 - 1
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 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 8 (40.00%) Office Communications Server
2 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
2 8 (40.00%) Skype for Business
3 5 (25.00%) Confluence
4 4 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) IaaS
2 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) DNS
2 16 (80.00%) DHCP
2 16 (80.00%) VPN
3 8 (40.00%) DDNS
3 8 (40.00%) SAN
4 7 (35.00%) SMTP
5 5 (25.00%) SSL
5 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (25.00%) VLAN
6 4 (20.00%) NetScaler
7 3 (15.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.00%) Big Data
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Support
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Replication
2 7 (35.00%) Clustering
2 7 (35.00%) PKI
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Architectural Design
1 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Content Management
1 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Search
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
1 8 (40.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (15.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (45.00%) vSphere
3 8 (40.00%) Brightmail
3 8 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (40.00%) ISA Server
4 4 (20.00%) XenApp
4 4 (20.00%) XenDesktop
5 3 (15.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (15.00%) Docker
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (15.00%) Terminal Services
5 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (20.00%) WSUS
4 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.00%) Nagios
4 3 (15.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (15.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (60.00%) Citrix
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
3 7 (35.00%) HP
4 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (25.00%) Veeam
5 4 (20.00%) Dell
6 3 (15.00%) Google
6 3 (15.00%) Symantec