Blackpool Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Blackpool 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 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
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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
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£280
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
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	£23.78	£23.23
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Application Platforms Blackpool
Matching contract IT job ads	3	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£339
Average daily rate	-	£339
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Exchange Server 2003 Lancashire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Blackpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Blackpool region.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Lucent 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2000	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE
System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) Lucent 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM