Berkshire MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Berkshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	88
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	75	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.075 %
As % of the category below	14.48 %	11.38 %
Daily rates quoted	19	21
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£332
Average daily rate	£309	£359
% change on same period last year	-14.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.53	£17.10
Average hourly rate	£24.62	£18.30
% change on same period last year	+34.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.71	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	518	589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.665 %	0.662 %
Daily rates quoted	133	110
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£309
Average daily rate	£389	£335
% change on same period last year	+16.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.08	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£34.71	£22.14
% change on same period last year	+56.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.33	£23.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Berkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Berkshire region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Reading	+6	24	£296	-15.37 %
2	Slough	-3	5	-	-
3	Windsor	-	4	-	-
4	Newbury	+19	3	-	-
5	Wokingham	+2	2	-	-
6	Bracknell	+14	1	£350	-9.09 %
6	Ascot	-2	1	-	-
6	Maidenhead	+9	1	£300	-

MS Exchange South East

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 121 (77.56 %) Microsoft 2 114 (73.08 %) Windows 3 79 (50.64 %) Active Directory 4 76 (48.72 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 46 (29.49 %) Windows 2000 6 44 (28.21 %) SQL 7 42 (26.92 %) Windows Server 2003 8 32 (20.51 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 30 (19.23 %) Clustering 10 27 (17.31 %) VMware 11 26 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 12 25 (16.03 %) Microsoft Certification 13 23 (14.74 %) DNS 13 23 (14.74 %) MS Excel 13 23 (14.74 %) MCSE

14 22 (14.10 %) HP 14 22 (14.10 %) Citrix 15 21 (13.46 %) MS Office 15 21 (13.46 %) SQL Server 15 21 (13.46 %) IIS 16 20 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 19 (12.18 %) Firewall 18 16 (10.26 %) ITIL 18 16 (10.26 %) DHCP 19 14 (8.974 %) Migration 19 14 (8.974 %) Replication 20 13 (8.333 %) LAN 20 13 (8.333 %) Dell 21 12 (7.692 %) SAN 21 12 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 5.5

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (5.128 %) .NET 2 5 (3.205 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (1.923 %) WebServices 3 3 (1.923 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (1.282 %) Software Packaging 5 1 (0.641 %) HTML 5 1 (0.641 %) XML 5 1 (0.641 %) ADSI 5 1 (0.641 %) MAPI 5 1 (0.641 %) ATL 5 1 (0.641 %) COM 5 1 (0.641 %) DCOM 5 1 (0.641 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 76 (48.72 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 32 (20.51 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 21 (13.46 %) IIS 4 20 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 12 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 8 (5.128 %) SharePoint 7 7 (4.487 %) Live Communications Server 8 6 (3.846 %) Apache 9 5 (3.205 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 4 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes 11 3 (1.923 %) Tomcat 11 3 (1.923 %) BizTalk Server 12 1 (0.641 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 1 (0.641 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 23 (14.74 %) MS Excel 2 21 (13.46 %) MS Office 3 5 (3.205 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.641 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.641 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.641 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.641 %) SoftGrid 1 1 (0.641 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 26 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 23 (14.74 %) DNS 3 19 (12.18 %) Firewall 4 16 (10.26 %) DHCP 5 13 (8.333 %) LAN 6 12 (7.692 %) SAN 7 11 (7.051 %) WAN 8 7 (4.487 %) Internet 8 7 (4.487 %) WINS 9 6 (3.846 %) VPN 10 4 (2.564 %) SMTP 10 4 (2.564 %) LDAP 11 3 (1.923 %) X.500 11 3 (1.923 %) Wireless 12 1 (0.641 %) Fast Ethernet 12 1 (0.641 %) Intrusion Detection 12 1 (0.641 %) Network Security 12 1 (0.641 %) NetScreen 12 1 (0.641 %) MPLS 12 1 (0.641 %) X.400	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (13.46 %) SQL Server 2 7 (4.487 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (1.923 %) MS Access 3 3 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.282 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.641 %) DTS 5 1 (0.641 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 3 (1.923 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (1.282 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.641 %) MSI	General 1 9 (5.769 %) Telecoms 2 8 (5.128 %) Government 3 6 (3.846 %) Pharmaceutical 4 4 (2.564 %) Health 5 2 (1.282 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.641 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.641 %) Finance 6 1 (0.641 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.641 %) Military 6 1 (0.641 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 27 (17.31 %) Support Engineer 2 25 (16.03 %) Analyst 3 22 (14.10 %) 3rd Line Support 4 16 (10.26 %) Systems Engineer 5 12 (7.692 %) Consultant 5 12 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 5 12 (7.692 %) Technical Support 6 11 (7.051 %) Server Engineer 7 7 (4.487 %) Administrator 7 7 (4.487 %) Architect 7 7 (4.487 %) Exchange Specialist 8 6 (3.846 %) Network Engineer 8 6 (3.846 %) Technical Consultant 9 5 (3.205 %) 2nd Line Support 9 5 (3.205 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 5 (3.205 %) Desktop Support 9 5 (3.205 %) Technical Specialist 9 5 (3.205 %) Technical Engineer 9 5 (3.205 %) Change Analyst 9 5 (3.205 %) Messaging Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 30 (19.23 %) Clustering 2 14 (8.974 %) Replication 3 4 (2.564 %) Blackberry 4 2 (1.282 %) PDA 4 2 (1.282 %) French Language 4 2 (1.282 %) German Language 4 2 (1.282 %) Italian Language 5 1 (0.641 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.641 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.641 %) PKI 5 1 (0.641 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.641 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.641 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 114 (73.08 %) Windows 2 46 (29.49 %) Windows 2000 3 42 (26.92 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (6.410 %) Unix 5 8 (5.128 %) Windows NT 6 7 (4.487 %) Windows XP 7 6 (3.846 %) Linux 8 4 (2.564 %) Solaris 9 3 (1.923 %) SUSE 9 3 (1.923 %) Debian 9 3 (1.923 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (1.282 %) Windows Vista 11 1 (0.641 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (10.26 %) ITIL 2 14 (8.974 %) Migration 3 11 (7.051 %) Service Management 4 7 (4.487 %) Validation 5 6 (3.846 %) Problem Management 5 6 (3.846 %) Change Management 6 5 (3.205 %) Service Delivery 6 5 (3.205 %) Incident Management 7 3 (1.923 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (1.923 %) Project Management 7 3 (1.923 %) Time Management 8 2 (1.282 %) Data Migration 8 2 (1.282 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (1.282 %) CRM 8 2 (1.282 %) Disaster Recovery 9 1 (0.641 %) Data Security 9 1 (0.641 %) Agile Software Development 9 1 (0.641 %) Unit Testing 9 1 (0.641 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (0.641 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 44 (28.21 %) SQL 2 8 (5.128 %) VBScript 3 6 (3.846 %) C# 4 5 (3.205 %) VB 5 4 (2.564 %) Perl 6 3 (1.923 %) C++ 7 1 (0.641 %) C 7 1 (0.641 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 25 (16.03 %) Microsoft Certification 2 23 (14.74 %) MCSE 3 11 (7.051 %) Cisco Certification 4 7 (4.487 %) CCNA 5 5 (3.205 %) Degree 5 5 (3.205 %) ITIL Certification 6 4 (2.564 %) MCP 7 3 (1.923 %) MCSA 8 2 (1.282 %) Citrix Certification 9 1 (0.641 %) A+ Certification 9 1 (0.641 %) CCNP 9 1 (0.641 %) CCA 9 1 (0.641 %) Network+ Certification 9 1 (0.641 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 79 (50.64 %) Active Directory 2 11 (7.051 %) Backup Exec 3 6 (3.846 %) NetBackup 3 6 (3.846 %) ISA Server 4 4 (2.564 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (1.923 %) MetaFrame 5 3 (1.923 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (1.282 %) Terminal Server 6 2 (1.282 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 2 (1.282 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.641 %) MailMarshal	Systems Management 1 9 (5.769 %) MOM 2 8 (5.128 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 4 (2.564 %) OpenView 4 3 (1.923 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 3 (1.923 %) WSUS 5 2 (1.282 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.641 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (0.641 %) MIIS 6 1 (0.641 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 1 (0.641 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 121 (77.56 %) Microsoft 2 27 (17.31 %) VMware 3 22 (14.10 %) HP 3 22 (14.10 %) Citrix 4 13 (8.333 %) Dell 5 11 (7.051 %) Cisco 6 9 (5.769 %) VERITAS 7 7 (4.487 %) IBM 8 6 (3.846 %) Compaq 8 6 (3.846 %) Red Hat 9 5 (3.205 %) Lotus 10 4 (2.564 %) CheckPoint 10 4 (2.564 %) Sun 11 2 (1.282 %) BMC 11 2 (1.282 %) Symantec 11 2 (1.282 %) McAfee Security 11 2 (1.282 %) Sophos 11 2 (1.282 %) Altiris 11 2 (1.282 %) LANDesk 12 1 (0.641 %) AppSense