Bristol MS Exchange Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bristol region.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Kettering Kidderminster Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	54	42	50
Rank change year-on-year	-12 +8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2	7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol	0.148 %	0.366 %	0.734 %
As % of the Application Platforms category	1.000 %	4.167 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1	1
Average daily rate	£230	£175	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+31.42 % -56.25 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£284	£300
% change year-on-year	+5.720 % -5.410 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Average hourly rate	-	-	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.50	£19.75	£19.00
% change year-on-year	-26.58 % +3.940 %
All Application Platforms Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Platforms category	100	48	84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol	14.84 %	8.791 %	8.805 %
Daily rates quoted	42	17	36
Average daily rate	£331	£200	£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+65.62 % -46.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£210	£113	£254
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£431	£350	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£375
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % -9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8	9
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£32.00	£17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-45.31 % +82.85 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.60	£22.50	£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£23.50	£50.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£22.50	£20.00
% change year-on-year	-22.22 % +12.50 %
MS Exchange South West

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly 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
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 8 (100.00 %) Windows 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 3 5 (62.50 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2008 4 4 (50.00 %) PDA 4 4 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (50.00 %) VPN 4 4 (50.00 %) MS Office 4 4 (50.00 %) Windows XP 5 3 (37.50 %) MCP 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 5 3 (37.50 %) DNS

5 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 5 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 5 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (37.50 %) Network+ Certification 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (37.50 %) DHCP 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows 7 6 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 6 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint 6 2 (25.00 %) LAN 6 2 (25.00 %) VoIP

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 1 (12.50 %) Web Services 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint 2 1 (12.50 %) IIS 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (50.00 %) VPN 2 3 (37.50 %) DNS 2 3 (37.50 %) DHCP 3 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 2 (25.00 %) LAN 3 2 (25.00 %) VoIP 3 2 (25.00 %) WAN 4 1 (12.50 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Education	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Desktop Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Security Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) ICT Technician 4 1 (12.50 %) IT Technician 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Desk Technician
Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) PDA 2 1 (12.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2008 3 4 (50.00 %) Windows XP 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows Mobile 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows 7 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 1 (12.50 %) CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Security	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (62.50 %) SC Cleared 1 5 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (37.50 %) MCP 2 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (37.50 %) Network+ Certification	System Software 1 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 1 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) Siebel 3 1 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) IBM 3 1 (12.50 %) IronPort