Bedfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Bedfordshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	32
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	35.29 %	11.58 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£185	£250
Average daily rate	£190	£250
% change on same period last year	-24.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£195	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£288
% change on same period last year	+13.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£14.50
% change on same period last year	+72.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.88	£19.92
% change on same period last year	+9.80 %
Application Platforms Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	17	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.096 %
Daily rates quoted	8	18
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£295
Average daily rate	£308	£321
% change on same period last year	-4.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£16.37
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£17.03
% change on same period last year	+46.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Exchange Server 2003 East of England

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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	+3	3	£190	-
Dunstable	+6	2	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 8 (100.00 %) Windows 1 8 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (50.00 %) Active Directory 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows XP 3 3 (37.50 %) Construction 3 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 3 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (37.50 %) Network Security 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows NT 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000

4 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) LAN 4 2 (25.00 %) WAN 4 2 (25.00 %) DHCP 4 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (25.00 %) DNS 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (25.00 %) Dell 4 2 (25.00 %) Retail 5 1 (12.50 %) HP 5 1 (12.50 %) COM 5 1 (12.50 %) Linux 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development 1 1 (12.50 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 8 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) Network Security 2 2 (25.00 %) LAN 2 2 (25.00 %) WAN 2 2 (25.00 %) DHCP 2 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (25.00 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Construction 2 2 (25.00 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 4 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Administrator 3 2 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Support Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Administrator	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows XP 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows NT 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 1 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 4 (50.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Dell 3 1 (12.50 %) HP