The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Rank 42 56 62
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +6
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 26 17 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.206% 1.722% 1.288%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.76% 10.83% 8.861%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 11
Average daily rate £288 £154 £142
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+86.68% +8.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £259 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.00% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.87% +28.12%
All Application Platforms
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
165 157 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 20.35% 15.91% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 67
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £149 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 15
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -32.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.95 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £17.08 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2003
South East

Exchange Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Buckinghamshire Exchange Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Exchange Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +13 22 £300 +87.50%
Exchange Server 2003
South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 35 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 32 (91.43%) Windows
3 29 (82.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (54.29%) Active Directory
5 18 (51.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 18 (51.43%) VMware
5 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
5 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (48.57%) ITIL
7 16 (45.71%) SQL
8 15 (42.86%) HP
8 15 (42.86%) Citrix
8 15 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
9 14 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
10 13 (37.14%) Firewall
11 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
12 11 (31.43%) SAN
12 11 (31.43%) DV Cleared
12 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
13 10 (28.57%) Backup Exec
13 10 (28.57%) WAN
13 10 (28.57%) LAN
13 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
14 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
14 9 (25.71%) DHCP
14 9 (25.71%) DNS
14 9 (25.71%) Windows 7
15 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (22.86%) MCSE
15 8 (22.86%) MCP

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 35 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 15 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
5 3 (8.571%) Lotus Notes
6 2 (5.714%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
2 6 (17.14%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) Firewall
2 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
3 11 (31.43%) SAN
4 10 (28.57%) WAN
4 10 (28.57%) LAN
5 9 (25.71%) DHCP
5 9 (25.71%) DNS
6 6 (17.14%) Wireless
7 5 (14.29%) WLAN
7 5 (14.29%) Internet
8 4 (11.43%) VPN
8 4 (11.43%) VoIP
9 3 (8.571%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Support Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Team Leader
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.571%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Technical Support Team Leader
6 2 (5.714%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (5.714%) Network Consultant
7 1 (2.857%) Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.714%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.857%) Clustering
4 1 (2.857%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 32 (91.43%) Windows
2 29 (82.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (51.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (25.71%) Windows 7
5 8 (22.86%) UNIX
6 6 (17.14%) Windows Vista
6 6 (17.14%) Windows XP
7 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (11.43%) Linux
8 4 (11.43%) Windows 2000
9 1 (2.857%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) ITIL
2 8 (22.86%) Service Management
2 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
3 5 (14.29%) Change Management
3 5 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
3 5 (14.29%) Information Security
3 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (11.43%) ITIL V3
4 4 (11.43%) Validation
4 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Testing
4 4 (11.43%) Test Scripting
4 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.571%) Network Management
6 2 (5.714%) Load Balancing
6 2 (5.714%) CRM
7 1 (2.857%) Project Management
7 1 (2.857%) Operations Management
7 1 (2.857%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) SQL
2 2 (5.714%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) DV Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (22.86%) MCSE
3 8 (22.86%) MCP
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.857%) MCDST
5 1 (2.857%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) SLA
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Active Directory
2 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.43%) vSphere
4 4 (11.43%) XenApp
5 3 (8.571%) VMware ESX
5 3 (8.571%) XenDesktop
6 2 (5.714%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.857%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 4 (11.43%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (5.714%) OVSD
3 2 (5.714%) OpenView
4 1 (2.857%) Unicenter
4 1 (2.857%) MOM
4 1 (2.857%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.857%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (2.857%) SCCM
4 1 (2.857%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) VMware
2 15 (42.86%) HP
2 15 (42.86%) Citrix
3 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (14.29%) Compaq
5 4 (11.43%) Symantec
5 4 (11.43%) Sophos
6 3 (8.571%) Cisco
6 3 (8.571%) Lotus
7 1 (2.857%) Dell
7 1 (2.857%) CA
7 1 (2.857%) Remedy
7 1 (2.857%) AppSense