Buckinghamshire MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 16 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 Burton-upon-Trent 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 Knottingley 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 Rochdale 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	53
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	46	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	13.51 %
Daily rates quoted	11	2
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£370
Average daily rate	£353	£383
% change on same period last year	-7.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£20.17
Average hourly rate	£22.06	£21.58
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.11	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	230	259
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.295 %	0.291 %
Daily rates quoted	76	51
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£350
Average daily rate	£342	£380
% change on same period last year	-9.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.35	£19.32
Average hourly rate	£28.83	£21.09
% change on same period last year	+36.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.32	£22.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange South East

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Milton Keynes	+3	30	£364	-
2	High Wycombe	-1	5	-	-
3	Aylesbury	-	2	£238	-

MS Exchange South East

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 48 (55.81 %) Windows 2 39 (45.35 %) Active Directory 3 35 (40.70 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 33 (38.37 %) Microsoft 5 27 (31.40 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 25 (29.07 %) Migration 7 23 (26.74 %) MS Office 8 22 (25.58 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 21 (24.42 %) Citrix 10 20 (23.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 16 (18.60 %) Windows 2000 12 14 (16.28 %) SQL 13 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel 13 13 (15.12 %) Government 14 12 (13.95 %) Windows NT

15 10 (11.63 %) Microsoft Certification 15 10 (11.63 %) HP 16 9 (10.47 %) Windows XP 17 7 (8.140 %) SQL Server 17 7 (8.140 %) Linux 17 7 (8.140 %) Dell 18 6 (6.977 %) MailMarshal 18 6 (6.977 %) Cisco 18 6 (6.977 %) TCP/IP 19 5 (5.814 %) ASP 19 5 (5.814 %) Business Objects 19 5 (5.814 %) PHP 19 5 (5.814 %) Compaq 19 5 (5.814 %) Sage 19 5 (5.814 %) BusinessObjects

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Development 1 5 (5.814 %) ASP 2 2 (2.326 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (2.326 %) WebServices 2 2 (2.326 %) WinForms 2 2 (2.326 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 2 (2.326 %) .NET 3 1 (1.163 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 35 (40.70 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 27 (31.40 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 22 (25.58 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 20 (23.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (4.651 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.163 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 1 (1.163 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.163 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 23 (26.74 %) MS Office 2 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (5.814 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.977 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (4.651 %) LDAP 3 3 (3.488 %) LAN 3 3 (3.488 %) Firewall 4 2 (2.326 %) Ethernet 4 2 (2.326 %) SAN 5 1 (1.163 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.163 %) Internet 5 1 (1.163 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (8.140 %) SQL Server 2 5 (5.814 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (2.326 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.163 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 13 (15.12 %) Government 2 4 (4.651 %) Legal 2 4 (4.651 %) Telecoms 2 4 (4.651 %) Finance 3 3 (3.488 %) Back Office 4 2 (2.326 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.163 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 26 (30.23 %) Consultant 2 21 (24.42 %) Analyst 3 20 (23.26 %) Exchange Consultant 4 15 (17.44 %) Support Analyst 5 11 (12.79 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 11 (12.79 %) Helpdesk Support 6 7 (8.140 %) Administrator 6 7 (8.140 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 7 6 (6.977 %) 2nd Line Support 7 6 (6.977 %) Desktop Support 8 5 (5.814 %) Support Engineer 9 4 (4.651 %) Technical Consultant 9 4 (4.651 %) Desktop Engineer 9 4 (4.651 %) Messaging Specialist 10 3 (3.488 %) IT Administrator 10 3 (3.488 %) PC Support 10 3 (3.488 %) Network Administrator 10 3 (3.488 %) Helpdesk Administrator 10 3 (3.488 %) Migration Consultant 11 2 (2.326 %) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.651 %) AS400 1 4 (4.651 %) German Language 2 3 (3.488 %) French Language 3 2 (2.326 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.326 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.163 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 48 (55.81 %) Windows 2 16 (18.60 %) Windows 2000 3 12 (13.95 %) Windows NT 4 9 (10.47 %) Windows XP 5 7 (8.140 %) Linux 6 3 (3.488 %) Unix 6 3 (3.488 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (29.07 %) Migration 2 5 (5.814 %) Web Design 2 5 (5.814 %) Project Planning 2 5 (5.814 %) Data Migration 3 4 (4.651 %) Problem Management 4 3 (3.488 %) ITIL 4 3 (3.488 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (2.326 %) ITSM 6 1 (1.163 %) OO 6 1 (1.163 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 14 (16.28 %) SQL 2 5 (5.814 %) PHP 3 2 (2.326 %) C#
Qualifications 1 10 (11.63 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (4.651 %) CNE 2 4 (4.651 %) Novell Certification 2 4 (4.651 %) MCSE 3 3 (3.488 %) MCP 4 1 (1.163 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.163 %) SLA
System Software 1 39 (45.35 %) Active Directory 2 6 (6.977 %) MailMarshal 3 1 (1.163 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.163 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 5 (5.814 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (3.488 %) OpenView 2 3 (3.488 %) OVOW 3 2 (2.326 %) MOM 3 2 (2.326 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 1 (1.163 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 33 (38.37 %) Microsoft 2 21 (24.42 %) Citrix 3 10 (11.63 %) HP 4 7 (8.140 %) Dell 5 6 (6.977 %) Cisco 6 5 (5.814 %) Business Objects 6 5 (5.814 %) Compaq 6 5 (5.814 %) Sage 7 4 (4.651 %) Remedy 7 4 (4.651 %) Oracle 8 3 (3.488 %) IBM 8 3 (3.488 %) JD Edwards 9 1 (1.163 %) Lotus 9 1 (1.163 %) VMware 9 1 (1.163 %) Altiris 9 1 (1.163 %) SAP 9 1 (1.163 %) Siebel