Windows Server 2003 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 401 435
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 -67
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 18 43 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.56% 0.98% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 58
10th Percentile £400 £200 £209
25th Percentile £460 £386 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £423
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +0.59% +5.63%
75th Percentile £565 £536 £450
90th Percentile £597 £567 £594
UK median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.18
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £28.41
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £56.96
UK median hourly rate - - £28.41
% change year-on-year - - +64.36%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,206 4,383 5,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 19.05% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 3,027 3,844
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £263 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.01% +0.01% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 316 449
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.97
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.84 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +28.57%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 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
South East +32 6 £475 -4.52% 4
East of England 0 4 £505 +18.82% 3
Scotland +32 2 - -
North of England +28 2 £500 +163.16% 1
South West +4 2 £579 +36.18% 1
Midlands +20 1 £160 -71.81%
North East +13 1 £600 +406.33%
East Midlands +13 1 £160 -
Yorkshire +12 1 £400 +41.59%
Northern Ireland +4 1 - -
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 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2000
3 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) DHCP
3 8 (44.44%) Firewall
4 6 (33.33%) SMTP
5 3 (16.67%) VPN
6 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
6 1 (5.56%) PBX
6 1 (5.56%) PSTN
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Field Support Technician
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Support Technician
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Clustering
1 5 (27.78%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) BYOD
2 2 (11.11%) iPad
2 2 (11.11%) iPhone
2 2 (11.11%) PDA
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 2000
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (11.11%) Linux
7 2 (11.11%) Unix
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Runbook
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.56%) Inventory Management
6 1 (5.56%) ITSM
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) MCP
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) XenApp
3 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (16.67%) BitLocker
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (16.67%) Terminal Services
5 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (5.56%) DFS Replication
6 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) SCCM
2 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
3 3 (16.67%) MAILsweeper
3 3 (16.67%) vMotion
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Citrix
3 7 (38.89%) Symantec
3 7 (38.89%) VMware
4 6 (33.33%) Ivanti
5 3 (16.67%) Infoblox
5 3 (16.67%) IronPort
5 3 (16.67%) Sophos
5 3 (16.67%) Trend Micro
6 2 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (11.11%) Intel
6 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.56%) Dell
7 1 (5.56%) Google
7 1 (5.56%) Peregrine
7 1 (5.56%) Remedy
7 1 (5.56%) Veritas