Windows Server 2003 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 313 378 417
Rank change year-on-year +65 +39 +15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 23 21 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.05% 0.64% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 36
10th Percentile £378 £400 £206
25th Percentile £513 £464 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £558 £538
90th Percentile - £595 £576
UK median daily rate £545 £425 £445
% change year-on-year +28.24% -4.49% +4.71%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2003
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +51 11 £550 +15.79% 5
North of England +26 9 £350 -30.00% 2
North West - 8 - - 2
South West +45 1 £588 +1.51%
Midlands +22 1 £535 +234.38% 3
North East 0 1 £350 -41.67%
Wales - 1 £200 -
West Midlands - 1 £535 - 2
Windows Server 2003
UK

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (26.09%) IIS
3 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (13.04%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
4 3 (13.04%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (13.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (21.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) VPN
3 9 (39.13%) SMTP
4 8 (34.78%) LAN
5 7 (30.43%) DHCP
6 6 (26.09%) NetScaler
6 6 (26.09%) SAN
7 4 (17.39%) Firewall
8 3 (13.04%) DDNS
8 3 (13.04%) Network Security
8 3 (13.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.04%) Big Data
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
1 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Support Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (26.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Desktop Support
4 5 (21.74%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Exchange Support
5 3 (13.04%) Industrial Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) PKI
2 10 (43.48%) Clustering
3 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
4 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 3 (13.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (26.09%) Linux
4 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (26.09%) Windows XP
5 5 (21.74%) Windows 8
5 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ITIL
2 8 (34.78%) Asset Management
2 8 (34.78%) Proactive Maintenance
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Business Case
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
4 5 (21.74%) Technical Analysis
4 5 (21.74%) Time Management
5 3 (13.04%) Architectural Design
5 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
5 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) Content Management
5 3 (13.04%) Data Management
5 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
5 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 6 (26.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) Degree
5 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 23 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (30.43%) vSphere
2 7 (30.43%) XenApp
3 6 (26.09%) XenDesktop
4 5 (21.74%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (17.39%) Terminal Services
6 3 (13.04%) BitLocker
6 3 (13.04%) Brightmail
6 3 (13.04%) Docker
6 3 (13.04%) ISA Server
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (30.43%) SCCM
2 7 (30.43%) vCenter Server
2 7 (30.43%) WSUS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (13.04%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Backup Exec
4 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.04%) Nagios
4 3 (13.04%) Puppet
4 3 (13.04%) vMotion
5 1 (4.35%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (65.22%) VMware
3 10 (43.48%) Citrix
4 9 (39.13%) HP
5 6 (26.09%) Dell
5 6 (26.09%) Symantec
6 5 (21.74%) Canon
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco
7 3 (13.04%) Google
7 3 (13.04%) Veeam
8 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.35%) Veritas