Birmingham Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Birmingham 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	39
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	15	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	11.03 %	12.27 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£244
Average daily rate	£249	£263
% change on same period last year	-5.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£16.89
Average hourly rate	£14.38	£19.85
% change on same period last year	-27.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.25	£22.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	136	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.174 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	31	32
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£316
Average daily rate	£381	£338
% change on same period last year	+12.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.53	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£13.60	£16.31
% change on same period last year	-16.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.67	£18.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Exchange Server 2003 West Midlands

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Birmingham 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 33 (82.50 %) Windows 2 26 (65.00 %) Active Directory 3 19 (47.50 %) MS Exchange 4 14 (35.00 %) Windows XP 5 12 (30.00 %) Microsoft 6 10 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 6 10 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 9 (22.50 %) Citrix 7 9 (22.50 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (20.00 %) MS Office 9 7 (17.50 %) DHCP 9 7 (17.50 %) TCP/IP 9 7 (17.50 %) DNS 9 7 (17.50 %) Microsoft Certification 9 7 (17.50 %) Exchange Server 2007

9 7 (17.50 %) Migration 10 6 (15.00 %) SQL 11 5 (12.50 %) MCSE 11 5 (12.50 %) Cisco 12 4 (10.00 %) Terminal Services 12 4 (10.00 %) Lotus 12 4 (10.00 %) Thin Client 12 4 (10.00 %) VPN 12 4 (10.00 %) WAN 12 4 (10.00 %) LAN 12 4 (10.00 %) Lotus Notes 12 4 (10.00 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 4 (10.00 %) Fat Client 13 3 (7.500 %) Clustering 13 3 (7.500 %) DameWare

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 19 (47.50 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 7 (17.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (10.00 %) Lotus Notes 5 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (2.500 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 1 (2.500 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (2.500 %) IIS 6 1 (2.500 %) Live Communications Server	Applications 1 8 (20.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 7 (17.50 %) DHCP 1 7 (17.50 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (17.50 %) DNS 2 4 (10.00 %) VPN 2 4 (10.00 %) LAN 2 4 (10.00 %) WAN 3 3 (7.500 %) Firewall 4 2 (5.000 %) SMS 5 1 (2.500 %) ADSL 5 1 (2.500 %) WINS 5 1 (2.500 %) Ethernet 5 1 (2.500 %) IPsec 5 1 (2.500 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (2.500 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Access 1 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) MSI	General 1 3 (7.500 %) Government 2 2 (5.000 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 16 (40.00 %) Analyst 2 9 (22.50 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (15.00 %) 2nd Line Support 3 6 (15.00 %) Field Engineer 4 5 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (10.00 %) Technical Support 5 4 (10.00 %) Technical Support Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Technical Engineer 6 3 (7.500 %) Technical Analyst 6 3 (7.500 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 3 (7.500 %) Service Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) Support Specialist 7 2 (5.000 %) Technical Architect 7 2 (5.000 %) Consultant 7 2 (5.000 %) Architect 7 2 (5.000 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) Senior Support Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) Technical Services Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.00 %) Thin Client 1 4 (10.00 %) Fat Client 2 3 (7.500 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.500 %) NHS 3 1 (2.500 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 33 (82.50 %) Windows 2 14 (35.00 %) Windows XP 3 10 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (22.50 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (7.500 %) Windows NT 6 1 (2.500 %) NetWare 6 1 (2.500 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.50 %) Migration 2 1 (2.500 %) Information Security 2 1 (2.500 %) ITIL 2 1 (2.500 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 6 (15.00 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (17.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.500 %) MCSA 3 1 (2.500 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (2.500 %) CCEA 3 1 (2.500 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (2.500 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.500 %) SLA 1 1 (2.500 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 26 (65.00 %) Active Directory 2 4 (10.00 %) Terminal Services 2 4 (10.00 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (5.000 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (5.000 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (2.500 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (2.500 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 3 (7.500 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (7.500 %) DameWare 2 1 (2.500 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 12 (30.00 %) Microsoft 2 9 (22.50 %) Citrix 3 5 (12.50 %) Cisco 4 4 (10.00 %) Lotus 5 3 (7.500 %) Symantec 5 3 (7.500 %) Remedy 6 2 (5.000 %) LANDesk 7 1 (2.500 %) Avaya 7 1 (2.500 %) Novell 7 1 (2.500 %) VMware 7 1 (2.500 %) Blue Coat 7 1 (2.500 %) HP 7 1 (2.500 %) Compaq 7 1 (2.500 %) Nortel