The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 20 41 27
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -14
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 21 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 6.140% 1.914% 2.000%
As % of the Application Platforms category 28.00% 9.524% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 2
Average daily rate £225 £244 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -26.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.76% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
- +12.90%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
75 84 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 21.93% 20.10% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MS Exchange
Cambridgeshire

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge MS Exchange Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 29 (80.56%) Exchange Server 2010
2 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 25 (69.44%) Windows
4 24 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 18 (50.00%) ITIL
5 18 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (47.22%) SQL
7 15 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2007
8 14 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
8 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
8 14 (38.89%) Blackberry
9 13 (36.11%) Windows XP
9 13 (36.11%) SCOM
9 13 (36.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 12 (33.33%) Windows 7
11 11 (30.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (30.56%) PKI
11 11 (30.56%) Oracle
11 11 (30.56%) DNS
11 11 (30.56%) Linux
11 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
12 10 (27.78%) Citrix
13 9 (25.00%) WSUS
14 8 (22.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
14 8 (22.22%) Backup Exec
14 8 (22.22%) Symantec
15 7 (19.44%) DHCP
15 7 (19.44%) XenApp
16 6 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
16 6 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Platforms
1 29 (80.56%) Exchange Server 2010
2 15 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 13 (36.11%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 5 (13.89%) Lync
6 2 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) MS Excel
2 4 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) DNS
2 7 (19.44%) DHCP
3 5 (13.89%) NetScaler
4 3 (8.333%) LAN
4 3 (8.333%) WAN
5 2 (5.556%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.556%) VPN
5 2 (5.556%) Intranet
5 2 (5.556%) Internet
5 2 (5.556%) Firewall
5 2 (5.556%) Wireless
5 2 (5.556%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (5.556%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (8.333%) OLAP
4 3 (8.333%) Crystal Reports
General
1 1 (2.778%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Administrator
2 13 (36.11%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (19.44%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Storage Administrator
7 2 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (5.556%) Field Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.778%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Architect
8 1 (2.778%) Desktop Support
8 1 (2.778%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Blackberry
2 11 (30.56%) PKI
3 5 (13.89%) Clustering
4 2 (5.556%) Replication
4 2 (5.556%) iPad
5 1 (2.778%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (69.44%) Windows
2 18 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (36.11%) Windows XP
5 12 (33.33%) Windows 7
6 11 (30.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (30.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (5.556%) Migration
2 2 (5.556%) Incident Management
2 2 (5.556%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) SQL
2 3 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (5.556%) Security Cleared
1 2 (5.556%) NCIE
2 1 (2.778%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (19.44%) XenApp
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.333%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.556%) VMware ESX
5 2 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.778%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) SCOM
2 9 (25.00%) WSUS
3 8 (22.22%) Backup Exec
3 8 (22.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 5 (13.89%) SCCM
5 2 (5.556%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (30.56%) Oracle
2 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
3 10 (27.78%) Citrix
4 8 (22.22%) Symantec
5 4 (11.11%) VMware
5 4 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (5.556%) HP
6 2 (5.556%) EMC
6 2 (5.556%) Altiris
6 2 (5.556%) Brocade
6 2 (5.556%) Riverbed
6 2 (5.556%) Exinda
6 2 (5.556%) NetApp