Windows Server 2003 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 563 636
Rank change year-on-year +72 +73 +102
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 28 37 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.085% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 0.64% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 66
10th Percentile £385 £308 £206
25th Percentile £450 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year +26.59% -4.49% +4.71%
75th Percentile £594 £480 £530
90th Percentile £600 £570 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.26% +11.76% -

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 27 £539 +34.75% 7
UK excluding London +59 26 £538 +13.26% 6
South East +48 11 £550 +15.79% 2
North of England +36 10 £375 -25.00% 2
North West - 9 £400 - 2
South West +46 3 £401 -30.80%
Work from Home +33 2 £539 +41.84% 1
London +24 2 £550 +44.74% 2
Midlands +24 1 £535 +234.38% 2
North East 0 1 £350 -41.67%
Wales - 1 £200 -
West Midlands - 1 £535 - 2

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.00%) IIS
3 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (10.71%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (10.71%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (10.71%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
3 4 (14.29%) IaaS
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) DNS
2 13 (46.43%) VPN
3 12 (42.86%) DHCP
4 11 (39.29%) SMTP
5 8 (28.57%) LAN
6 6 (21.43%) Firewall
6 6 (21.43%) NetScaler
6 6 (21.43%) SAN
7 3 (10.71%) DDNS
7 3 (10.71%) Network Security
7 3 (10.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (14.29%) Big Data
1 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
2 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support
5 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Exchange Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Exchange Support
6 3 (10.71%) Industrial Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 2 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) PKI
2 12 (42.86%) Clustering
3 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
4 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (10.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (82.14%) Windows Server
3 10 (35.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (25.00%) Linux
6 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (21.43%) Windows XP
7 5 (17.86%) Windows 8
8 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (3.57%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) ITIL
2 8 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 8 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Business Case
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Analysis
4 5 (17.86%) Time Management
5 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) High Availability
5 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 4 (14.29%) Software Deployment
6 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
6 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.71%) Content Management
6 3 (10.71%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Degree
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (25.00%) vSphere
3 7 (25.00%) XenApp
4 6 (21.43%) Terminal Services
4 6 (21.43%) XenDesktop
5 5 (17.86%) BitLocker
5 5 (17.86%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (14.29%) Docker
7 3 (10.71%) Brightmail
7 3 (10.71%) ISA Server
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 10 (35.71%) vCenter Server
3 8 (28.57%) WSUS
4 7 (25.00%) SCCM
5 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (21.43%) vMotion
6 4 (14.29%) Ansible
6 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 4 (14.29%) Nagios
6 4 (14.29%) Puppet
7 3 (10.71%) Backup Exec
7 3 (10.71%) Nessus
8 1 (3.57%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (3.57%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 26 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (64.29%) VMware
3 12 (42.86%) Citrix
4 10 (35.71%) HP
5 7 (25.00%) Symantec
6 6 (21.43%) Dell
7 5 (17.86%) Canon
8 4 (14.29%) Google
9 3 (10.71%) Cisco
9 3 (10.71%) Tenable
9 3 (10.71%) Veeam
10 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
10 1 (3.57%) Veritas