Bristol MS Exchange Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Bristol 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 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	53
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	14	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	11.29 %	19.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£160
Average daily rate	-	£165
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£170
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£300
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.25	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£27.08
% change on same period last year	+15.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.25	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.25	£18.92
% change on same period last year	+12.28 %
Application Platforms Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	124	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	25	25
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£252
Average daily rate	£342	£266
% change on same period last year	+28.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£339
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.19	£23.64
Average hourly rate	£27.88	£25.08
% change on same period last year	+11.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.58	£26.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.54	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
MS Exchange South West

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Bristol 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the Bristol region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 27 (67.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 22 (55.00 %) Windows 3 21 (52.50 %) Active Directory 4 17 (42.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 14 (35.00 %) Citrix 6 13 (32.50 %) Microsoft 7 11 (27.50 %) VMware 8 8 (20.00 %) SAN 8 8 (20.00 %) Windows XP 9 6 (15.00 %) Cisco 9 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (15.00 %) MS Office 9 6 (15.00 %) NetBackup 10 5 (12.50 %) Firewall 10 5 (12.50 %) MCSE

10 5 (12.50 %) DNS 10 5 (12.50 %) LAN 11 4 (10.00 %) ATM 11 4 (10.00 %) WAN 11 4 (10.00 %) SharePoint 11 4 (10.00 %) HP 11 4 (10.00 %) CORBA 11 4 (10.00 %) Java 11 4 (10.00 %) MPLS 11 4 (10.00 %) Frame Relay 11 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 4 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 12 3 (7.500 %) VMware Infrastructure 12 3 (7.500 %) Load Balancing 12 3 (7.500 %) Network Security

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (10.00 %) CORBA 2 3 (7.500 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 27 (67.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (10.00 %) SharePoint 2 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (7.500 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 3 (7.500 %) CMS 4 2 (5.000 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (15.00 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (20.00 %) SAN 2 5 (12.50 %) Firewall 2 5 (12.50 %) DNS 2 5 (12.50 %) LAN 3 4 (10.00 %) ATM 3 4 (10.00 %) WAN 3 4 (10.00 %) MPLS 3 4 (10.00 %) Frame Relay 4 3 (7.500 %) Network Security 4 3 (7.500 %) SNMP 4 3 (7.500 %) VoIP 5 2 (5.000 %) VPN 5 2 (5.000 %) DHCP 6 1 (2.500 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (2.500 %) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.500 %) GIS 1 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) InstallShield 1 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (5.000 %) Government 2 1 (2.500 %) Local Government 2 1 (2.500 %) Military 2 1 (2.500 %) Law 2 1 (2.500 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 6 (15.00 %) 2nd Line Support 2 5 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 5 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 2 5 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 4 (10.00 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (10.00 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 3 (7.500 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Analyst 5 2 (5.000 %) Consultant 5 2 (5.000 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (5.000 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Infrastructure Specialist 5 2 (5.000 %) Network Support 5 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Server Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Server Specialist 6 1 (2.500 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (2.500 %) Windows Server Engineer 6 1 (2.500 %) IT Administrator
Operating Systems 1 22 (55.00 %) Windows 2 17 (42.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (20.00 %) Windows XP 4 3 (7.500 %) UNIX 4 3 (7.500 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.500 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (2.500 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (7.500 %) Load Balancing 3 2 (5.000 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (2.500 %) Network Load Balancing 4 1 (2.500 %) Wealth Management 4 1 (2.500 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 4 (10.00 %) Java 2 3 (7.500 %) SQL 2 3 (7.500 %) C++	Qualifications 1 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (7.500 %) MCSA 4 1 (2.500 %) MCTS 4 1 (2.500 %) MCITP 4 1 (2.500 %) Degree 4 1 (2.500 %) MCP
System Software 1 21 (52.50 %) Active Directory 2 6 (15.00 %) NetBackup 3 3 (7.500 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (5.000 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (2.500 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (2.500 %) VMware GSX 5 1 (2.500 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (2.500 %) SCOM 1 1 (2.500 %) DameWare 1 1 (2.500 %) MIMEsweeper 1 1 (2.500 %) MOM
Vendors 1 14 (35.00 %) Citrix 2 13 (32.50 %) Microsoft 3 11 (27.50 %) VMware 4 6 (15.00 %) Cisco 5 4 (10.00 %) HP 6 3 (7.500 %) ESRI 7 2 (5.000 %) Websense 7 2 (5.000 %) Lotus 8 1 (2.500 %) Blue Coat 8 1 (2.500 %) Apple 8 1 (2.500 %) Oracle