Windows Server 2003 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 616 727
Rank change year-on-year +61 +111 -108
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 35 83 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.61% 0.88% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 70 81
10th Percentile £308 £219 £208
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £480 £530 £538
90th Percentile £570 £589 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £17.30
25th Percentile - - £22.63
Median hourly rate - - £28.41
75th Percentile - - £47.02
90th Percentile - - £62.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £28.41
% change year-on-year - - +70.71%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,733 9,408 13,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.33% 16.27% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,878 6,587 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 419 606
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.99 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.44 £17.74 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

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 11 May 2024.

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 14 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 11 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
England +75 28 £400 -8.57% 14
UK excluding London +28 20 £475 +11.76% 13
Work from Home +102 19 £380 -19.58% 4
London +93 12 £380 -24.00%
South East +17 6 £475 -4.52% 5
Scotland +36 4 £525 -
East of England +9 4 £505 +18.82% 5
North of England +29 2 £500 +163.16% 2
South West +7 2 £579 +44.69%
Midlands +26 1 £160 -71.81% 1
East Midlands +19 1 £160 -
North East +16 1 £600 +406.33%
Yorkshire +14 1 £400 +41.59%
Northern Ireland +6 1 - -

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 24 (68.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (51.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 16 (45.71%) Exchange Server 2007
4 15 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (28.57%) Skype for Business
7 4 (11.43%) Exchange Server 2000
8 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) DNS
2 12 (34.29%) DHCP
3 10 (28.57%) Skype
4 9 (25.71%) Firewall
5 7 (20.00%) SMTP
6 4 (11.43%) VPN
7 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.86%) PBX
7 1 (2.86%) PSTN
7 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Field Support Technician
5 1 (2.86%) Junior
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Support Technician
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Clustering
2 7 (20.00%) PKI
3 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) BYOD
4 2 (5.71%) iPad
4 2 (5.71%) iPhone
4 2 (5.71%) PDA
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.71%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
4 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
6 6 (17.14%) Windows 7
7 4 (11.43%) Linux
7 4 (11.43%) Windows 2000
8 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
8 2 (5.71%) Unix
8 2 (5.71%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Migration
2 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (17.14%) High Availability
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.29%) ITIL
5 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (8.57%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (8.57%) Project Management
8 2 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (5.71%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (5.71%) Product Roadmap
8 2 (5.71%) Remediation Plan
8 2 (5.71%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.71%) Runbook
8 2 (5.71%) Software Deployment
8 2 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
9 1 (2.86%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) VBScript
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 4 (11.43%) MCP
5 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (77.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 7 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (17.14%) XenApp
5 4 (11.43%) BitLocker
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (11.43%) Terminal Services
5 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (5.71%) vSphere
7 1 (2.86%) DFS Replication
7 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) SCCM
2 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) vMotion
4 3 (8.57%) MAILsweeper
5 2 (5.71%) SCOM
6 1 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) Citrix
2 11 (31.43%) VMware
3 8 (22.86%) Symantec
4 6 (17.14%) Ivanti
5 5 (14.29%) HP
5 5 (14.29%) Trend Micro
6 4 (11.43%) Infoblox
6 4 (11.43%) IronPort
7 3 (8.57%) Sophos
8 2 (5.71%) Huawei
8 2 (5.71%) Intel
8 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.71%) Veritas
9 1 (2.86%) Dell
9 1 (2.86%) Google
9 1 (2.86%) McAfee
9 1 (2.86%) Peregrine
9 1 (2.86%) Remedy