Aberdeen Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	18
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	19	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	34.55 %	30.00 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£333	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£367	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£286
% change on same period last year	-0.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.80	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£28.70	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+91.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.60	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.07	£23.02
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Application Platforms Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	55	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	11	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£325
Average daily rate	£292	£325
% change on same period last year	-10.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.53	£12.88
Average hourly rate	£24.47	£14.06
% change on same period last year	+73.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.40	£15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.22	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Exchange Server 2003 Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Exchange Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Aberdeen region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Aberdeen region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Exchange Server 2003 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Exchange Server 2003.

1 14 (60.87 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (52.17 %) Windows 2 12 (52.17 %) Microsoft 3 11 (47.83 %) Cisco 4 10 (43.48 %) Active Directory 5 9 (39.13 %) Citrix 6 8 (34.78 %) Windows 2000 6 8 (34.78 %) Windows XP 7 6 (26.09 %) PBX 7 6 (26.09 %) DNS 7 6 (26.09 %) Avaya 7 6 (26.09 %) Migration 7 6 (26.09 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 5 (21.74 %) VMware 8 5 (21.74 %) SAN

8 5 (21.74 %) DHCP 9 4 (17.39 %) MS Excel 9 4 (17.39 %) VMware Infrastructure 10 3 (13.04 %) ISA Server 10 3 (13.04 %) LAN 10 3 (13.04 %) SMS 10 3 (13.04 %) MetaFrame 11 2 (8.696 %) WAN 11 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 11 2 (8.696 %) Windows NT 11 2 (8.696 %) Symantec 11 2 (8.696 %) Terminal Server 11 2 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 11 2 (8.696 %) Cisco PIX 11 2 (8.696 %) Cisco IPT

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Exchange Server 2003 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 14 (60.87 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (26.09 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 4 (17.39 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (26.09 %) PBX 1 6 (26.09 %) DNS 2 5 (21.74 %) SAN 2 5 (21.74 %) DHCP 3 3 (13.04 %) SMS 3 3 (13.04 %) LAN 4 2 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (8.696 %) WAN 4 2 (8.696 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (8.696 %) Cisco IPT 4 2 (8.696 %) Cisco PIX 5 1 (4.348 %) Ethernet 5 1 (4.348 %) Firewall	Job Titles 1 10 (43.48 %) Analyst 2 6 (26.09 %) Consultant 3 4 (17.39 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (17.39 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 4 (17.39 %) Server Engineer 4 3 (13.04 %) Server Support 5 2 (8.696 %) Server Support Analyst 5 2 (8.696 %) Server Analyst 5 2 (8.696 %) Cisco Consultant 6 1 (4.348 %) Desktop Support 6 1 (4.348 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.348 %) Network Analyst 6 1 (4.348 %) Senior Systems Administrator 6 1 (4.348 %) Communications Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Senior Server Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) Server Administrator 6 1 (4.348 %) Support Technician 6 1 (4.348 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (4.348 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (4.348 %) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) Handset 1 1 (4.348 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 12 (52.17 %) Windows 2 8 (34.78 %) Windows 2000 2 8 (34.78 %) Windows XP 3 2 (8.696 %) Windows NT 4 1 (4.348 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (26.09 %) Migration 2 1 (4.348 %) Disaster Recovery	Qualifications 1 1 (4.348 %) Degree
System Software 1 10 (43.48 %) Active Directory 2 4 (17.39 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (13.04 %) MetaFrame 3 3 (13.04 %) ISA Server 4 2 (8.696 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (4.348 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 12 (52.17 %) Microsoft 2 11 (47.83 %) Cisco 3 9 (39.13 %) Citrix 4 6 (26.09 %) Avaya 5 5 (21.74 %) VMware 6 2 (8.696 %) Symantec 7 1 (4.348 %) CommVault