Birmingham Exchange Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 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 2007 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£350
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
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	£26.24	£23.88
% change on same period last year	+9.92 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	93	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	16	26
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£308
Average daily rate	£387	£330
% change on same period last year	+17.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.85	£14.92
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£15.77
% change on same period last year	+32.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.10	£16.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2007 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 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Birmingham region.

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Birmingham region.

Exchange Server 2007
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 1 4 (57.14 %) Clustering 2 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (28.57 %) Fat Client 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (28.57 %) DHCP 3 2 (28.57 %) VPN 3 2 (28.57 %) DNS 3 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory

3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 2 (28.57 %) Thin Client 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows Vista

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 2 (28.57 %) DHCP 2 2 (28.57 %) VPN 2 2 (28.57 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 7 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Architect 1 2 (28.57 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 4 (57.14 %) Clustering 2 2 (28.57 %) Fat Client 2 2 (28.57 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows Vista
Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL	System Software 1 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 1 2 (28.57 %) Citrix