Berkshire Exchange Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Exchange Engineer role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Exchange Engineer
Location Berkshire Bracknell Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Crewe Cumbria Edinburgh England Fareham Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside North Wales North West Penrith Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland South East South West Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.063 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£255	£301
% change on same period last year	-15.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£24.02
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3175	4574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.190 %	4.555 %
Daily rates quoted	784	1441
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£350
Average daily rate	£360	£367
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	233	460
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.29	£28.17
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Exchange Engineer South East

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 Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exchange Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Bracknell	-	1	-	-
Reading	-	1	-	-

Exchange Engineer South East

Exchange Engineer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Exchange Engineer in their job title 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 with Exchange Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) SMTP 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Smartcard 3 1 (33.33 %) X.400 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) PKI 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000

3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003

Exchange Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Exchange Engineer in their job title 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 with Exchange Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SMTP 1 1 (33.33 %) X.400
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Smartcard 1 1 (33.33 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2008 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) DV Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft