Cambridgeshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	60
Rank change on same period last year	+38
Matching contract IT job ads	62	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	24.90 %	8.235 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£238	£333
Average daily rate	£238	£335
% change on same period last year	-28.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£238	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£286
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.88	-
Average hourly rate	£20.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.13	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.08	£21.14
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Application Platforms Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	249	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.319 %	0.095 %
Daily rates quoted	45	24
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£301
Average daily rate	£328	£306
% change on same period last year	+7.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.64	£23.80
Average hourly rate	£22.60	£26.08
% change on same period last year	-13.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.56	£28.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Exchange Server 2003 East of England

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.

Exchange Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Cambridgeshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Cambridgeshire 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	Cambridge	+32	36	£190	-
2	Peterborough	-11	14	£250	-
3	Ely	-	2	-	-
4	Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 70 (80.46 %) Windows 2 61 (70.11 %) Active Directory 3 51 (58.62 %) MS Exchange 4 35 (40.23 %) Cisco 5 32 (36.78 %) Microsoft 6 31 (35.63 %) LAN 6 31 (35.63 %) Windows 2000 7 28 (32.18 %) Windows Server 2003 8 27 (31.03 %) DNS 8 27 (31.03 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 26 (29.89 %) WAN 10 25 (28.74 %) ITIL 10 25 (28.74 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 24 (27.59 %) VoIP 12 21 (24.14 %) Firewall

13 20 (22.99 %) TCP/IP 14 19 (21.84 %) HP 15 18 (20.69 %) Dell 15 18 (20.69 %) Microsoft Certification 15 18 (20.69 %) MCSE 16 17 (19.54 %) MS Office 17 16 (18.39 %) Windows NT 18 14 (16.09 %) Linux 18 14 (16.09 %) SQL Server 19 13 (14.94 %) ADSL 19 13 (14.94 %) ISDN 19 13 (14.94 %) MPLS 20 12 (13.79 %) SharePoint 20 12 (13.79 %) VMware 21 11 (12.64 %) 3Com

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 51 (58.62 %) MS Exchange 2 27 (31.03 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 25 (28.74 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 12 (13.79 %) SharePoint 5 6 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (2.299 %) IIS	Applications 1 17 (19.54 %) MS Office 2 11 (12.64 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.149 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 31 (35.63 %) LAN 2 27 (31.03 %) DNS 3 26 (29.89 %) WAN 4 24 (27.59 %) VoIP 5 21 (24.14 %) Firewall 6 20 (22.99 %) TCP/IP 7 13 (14.94 %) ISDN 7 13 (14.94 %) MPLS 7 13 (14.94 %) ADSL 8 11 (12.64 %) Intrusion Detection 9 7 (8.046 %) VPN 10 4 (4.598 %) SMS 10 4 (4.598 %) WLAN 10 4 (4.598 %) DHCP 11 2 (2.299 %) SAN 12 1 (1.149 %) Internet 12 1 (1.149 %) WINS 12 1 (1.149 %) Wireless 12 1 (1.149 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (16.09 %) SQL Server 2 9 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 10 (11.49 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.299 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.149 %) Banking 3 1 (1.149 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (1.149 %) Finance 3 1 (1.149 %) Government	Job Titles 1 32 (36.78 %) Analyst 2 19 (21.84 %) Support Engineer 3 18 (20.69 %) 3rd Line Support 4 15 (17.24 %) Support Analyst 5 12 (13.79 %) Network Engineer 5 12 (13.79 %) Network Support Engineer 5 12 (13.79 %) Network Support 6 10 (11.49 %) Server Engineer 6 10 (11.49 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 10 (11.49 %) Desktop Support 7 8 (9.195 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 8 (9.195 %) Technical Analyst 7 8 (9.195 %) Desktop Analyst 8 5 (5.747 %) Administrator 8 5 (5.747 %) Wintel Engineer 9 4 (4.598 %) Systems Administrator 9 4 (4.598 %) Technical Support 9 4 (4.598 %) Support Specialist 10 3 (3.448 %) Server Support 10 3 (3.448 %) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.195 %) Blackberry 2 6 (6.897 %) PDA 3 5 (5.747 %) German Language 4 1 (1.149 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 70 (80.46 %) Windows 2 31 (35.63 %) Windows 2000 3 28 (32.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 16 (18.39 %) Windows NT 5 14 (16.09 %) Linux 6 5 (5.747 %) Unix 7 3 (3.448 %) Mac OS X 8 2 (2.299 %) Windows XP 9 1 (1.149 %) SUSE 9 1 (1.149 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (28.74 %) ITIL 2 10 (11.49 %) Migration 3 2 (2.299 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.149 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (1.149 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (1.149 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (1.149 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.299 %) C 2 1 (1.149 %) SQL 2 1 (1.149 %) VB
Qualifications 1 18 (20.69 %) MCSE 1 18 (20.69 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (3.448 %) CCNA 3 2 (2.299 %) MCP 3 2 (2.299 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (2.299 %) Degree 4 1 (1.149 %) RHCT 4 1 (1.149 %) CCA 4 1 (1.149 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (1.149 %) CCEA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (10.34 %) SLA
System Software 1 61 (70.11 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.598 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (3.448 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.149 %) NetBackup 4 1 (1.149 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.149 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 11 (12.64 %) OpenView 2 6 (6.897 %) MOM 2 6 (6.897 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (1.149 %) ARCserve 3 1 (1.149 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (1.149 %) DameWare 3 1 (1.149 %) WSUS 3 1 (1.149 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 35 (40.23 %) Cisco 2 32 (36.78 %) Microsoft 3 19 (21.84 %) HP 4 18 (20.69 %) Dell 5 12 (13.79 %) VMware 6 11 (12.64 %) McAfee Security 6 11 (12.64 %) 3Com 7 6 (6.897 %) Citrix 8 1 (1.149 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.149 %) Red Hat 8 1 (1.149 %) Sage 8 1 (1.149 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.149 %) SurfControl 8 1 (1.149 %) Altiris 8 1 (1.149 %) Oracle