Basingstoke MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ayr Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	27
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	10	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	17.54 %	41.07 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£343
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£457
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£306
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.33	£34.00
Average hourly rate	£24.84	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-30.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.39	£20.07
% change on same period last year	+6.56 %
Application Platforms Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	57	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£358
Average daily rate	£389	£382
% change on same period last year	+1.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.27	£34.00
Average hourly rate	£23.37	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-34.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.48	£37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
MS Exchange Hampshire

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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

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

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 16 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 15 (93.75 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (68.75 %) Windows 4 8 (50.00 %) Microsoft 5 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (37.50 %) Blackberry 6 5 (31.25 %) BMC PATROL 7 4 (25.00 %) Citrix 8 3 (18.75 %) MOM 8 3 (18.75 %) Validation 8 3 (18.75 %) DNS 8 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 8 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec

9 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 2 (12.50 %) LAN 9 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 9 2 (12.50 %) MCSA 9 2 (12.50 %) WAN 9 2 (12.50 %) VPN 9 2 (12.50 %) MCP 9 2 (12.50 %) Migration 9 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 10 1 (6.250 %) VMware 10 1 (6.250 %) Intel 10 1 (6.250 %) SLA 10 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 10 1 (6.250 %) SMS

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 15 (93.75 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (6.250 %) IIS	Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) DNS 2 2 (12.50 %) LAN 2 2 (12.50 %) WAN 2 2 (12.50 %) VPN 3 1 (6.250 %) SMS	Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Technician 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Technician
Miscellaneous 1 6 (37.50 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 11 (68.75 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Validation 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSA 1 2 (12.50 %) MCP 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SLA
System Software 1 16 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 5 (31.25 %) BMC PATROL 2 3 (18.75 %) MOM
Vendors 1 8 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 4 1 (6.250 %) VMware 4 1 (6.250 %) Intel