The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2010 over the 3 months to 20 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 Bedfordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Rank 25 23 38
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +15
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 5 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.660% 4.225% 1.384%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.90% 22.22% 5.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
Average daily rate £188 £375 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +70.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £289 £281
% change year-on-year
-0.86% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.60 £20.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+10.21% +13.88%
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 54 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.34% 19.01% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 33
Average daily rate £325 £375 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £323 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% +11.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Exchange Server 2010
East of England

Exchange Server 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire Exchange Server 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
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 2010 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 2 - -
Exchange Server 2010
East of England

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010.

1 8 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (37.50%) WSUS
5 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (37.50%) Symantec
5 3 (37.50%) HP
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix
5 3 (37.50%) SAN
5 3 (37.50%) MCSE
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) LAN
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
5 3 (37.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (25.00%) Lync
6 2 (25.00%) VCP4
6 2 (25.00%) NAS
6 2 (25.00%) XenApp
6 2 (25.00%) UNIX
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP

Exchange Server 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (25.00%) Lync
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) IIS
5 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (25.00%) Support Technician
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Support
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support
4 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
5 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) MCSE
3 2 (25.00%) VCP4
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (12.50%) MCITP
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (25.00%) XenApp
4 1 (12.50%) XenServer
4 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (12.50%) NFS
4 1 (12.50%) Terminal Server
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) WSUS
1 3 (37.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) Symantec
4 2 (25.00%) Adobe
4 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (12.50%) Twitter
5 1 (12.50%) LANDesk