Birmingham MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 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	28	30
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	27	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	19.85 %	17.79 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£213
Average daily rate	£382	£282
% change on same period last year	+35.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.63	£14.39
Average hourly rate	£11.25	£16.52
% change on same period last year	-31.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.88	£18.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
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 %
MS Exchange 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.

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 52 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 48 (61.54 %) Windows 3 45 (57.69 %) Active Directory 4 28 (35.90 %) MS Office 5 19 (24.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 19 (24.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 16 (20.51 %) Windows XP 7 15 (19.23 %) Citrix 8 13 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 8 13 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 9 12 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 9 12 (15.38 %) Remedy 10 11 (14.10 %) Windows NT 11 10 (12.82 %) Microsoft Certification 12 9 (11.54 %) LAN

13 8 (10.26 %) WAN 13 8 (10.26 %) Lotus 14 7 (8.974 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 7 (8.974 %) DNS 14 7 (8.974 %) SLA 14 7 (8.974 %) Cisco 14 7 (8.974 %) MS Excel 14 7 (8.974 %) MS Access 14 7 (8.974 %) Lotus Notes 14 7 (8.974 %) ITIL 14 7 (8.974 %) SQL Server 14 7 (8.974 %) Finance 15 6 (7.692 %) SQL 15 6 (7.692 %) MCSE 15 6 (7.692 %) DHCP

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms 1 19 (24.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 19 (24.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 7 (8.974 %) Lotus Notes 3 6 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (5.128 %) SharePoint 5 3 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 2 (2.564 %) IIS 7 1 (1.282 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (1.282 %) Live Communications Server 7 1 (1.282 %) Lotus Domino	Applications 1 28 (35.90 %) MS Office 2 7 (8.974 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.282 %) Acrobat
Business Applications 1 5 (6.410 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 13 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (11.54 %) LAN 3 8 (10.26 %) WAN 4 7 (8.974 %) DNS 5 6 (7.692 %) DHCP 6 5 (6.410 %) VPN 7 4 (5.128 %) Firewall 8 3 (3.846 %) Intranet 9 2 (2.564 %) Ethernet 9 2 (2.564 %) VoIP 10 1 (1.282 %) WLAN 10 1 (1.282 %) Internet 10 1 (1.282 %) NetScreen 10 1 (1.282 %) Wireless 10 1 (1.282 %) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (8.974 %) SQL Server 1 7 (8.974 %) MS Access 2 2 (2.564 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.282 %) MSI
General 1 7 (8.974 %) Finance 2 3 (3.846 %) Government 3 2 (2.564 %) Legal 3 2 (2.564 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.282 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.282 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.282 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 26 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 11 (14.10 %) Service Analyst 2 11 (14.10 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 10 (12.82 %) Support Analyst 4 9 (11.54 %) Support Engineer 5 8 (10.26 %) 2nd Line Support 6 7 (8.974 %) Field Engineer 6 7 (8.974 %) 3rd Line Support 6 7 (8.974 %) Architect 7 5 (6.410 %) Solutions Architect 7 5 (6.410 %) Technical Analyst 8 4 (5.128 %) Technical Support Engineer 8 4 (5.128 %) Support Specialist 8 4 (5.128 %) Technical Support 8 4 (5.128 %) Technical Engineer 9 3 (3.846 %) Infrastructure Manager 9 3 (3.846 %) Technical Services Analyst 9 3 (3.846 %) 1st Line Support 9 3 (3.846 %) Project Manager 9 3 (3.846 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.128 %) Thin Client 1 4 (5.128 %) Fat Client 2 2 (2.564 %) Clustering 2 2 (2.564 %) PDA 2 2 (2.564 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.282 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.282 %) Replication 3 1 (1.282 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 48 (61.54 %) Windows 2 16 (20.51 %) Windows XP 3 13 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 4 12 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 5 11 (14.10 %) Windows NT 6 3 (3.846 %) Unix 7 2 (2.564 %) NetWare 8 1 (1.282 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (8.974 %) ITIL 2 3 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (3.846 %) Service Management 2 3 (3.846 %) Supplier Management 2 3 (3.846 %) Matrix Management 3 2 (2.564 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.282 %) Migration 4 1 (1.282 %) Information Security 4 1 (1.282 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 6 (7.692 %) SQL 2 1 (1.282 %) VBScript 2 1 (1.282 %) VB
Qualifications 1 10 (12.82 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (7.692 %) MCSE 3 2 (2.564 %) PMP 3 2 (2.564 %) PMI Certification 3 2 (2.564 %) MCP 4 1 (1.282 %) MOS 4 1 (1.282 %) MCDST 4 1 (1.282 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.282 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (8.974 %) SLA
System Software 1 45 (57.69 %) Active Directory 2 6 (7.692 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 4 (5.128 %) MetaFrame 3 4 (5.128 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (2.564 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (1.282 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (1.282 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 7 (8.974 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (6.410 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.282 %) BMC Performance Manager 3 1 (1.282 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (1.282 %) MIIS 3 1 (1.282 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 52 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 15 (19.23 %) Citrix 3 12 (15.38 %) Remedy 4 8 (10.26 %) Lotus 5 7 (8.974 %) Cisco 6 4 (5.128 %) Symantec 7 3 (3.846 %) Novell 7 3 (3.846 %) LANDesk 8 1 (1.282 %) Apple 8 1 (1.282 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (1.282 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (1.282 %) VMware 8 1 (1.282 %) Altiris 8 1 (1.282 %) Blue Coat 8 1 (1.282 %) SAP 8 1 (1.282 %) BMC 8 1 (1.282 %) Adobe 8 1 (1.282 %) Dell 8 1 (1.282 %) Nortel