The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2007 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2007 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Rank - 5 18
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - 4.762% 2.326%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 25.00% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £217
% change year-on-year
+2.80% +23.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
All Application Platforms
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
6 4 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 30.00% 19.05% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 10
Average daily rate £300 - £185
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 - £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2007
Bedfordshire

Exchange Server 2007
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedford Exchange Server 2007 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Bedford region.

Bedford Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Bedford region.

Bedford Exchange Server 2007 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) DMZ
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Back Office
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (25.00%) NAS
4 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) DMZ
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) NAS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec