The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 31 40 40
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 24 20 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 4.068% 2.778% 3.611%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.51% 13.79% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 13
Average daily rate £223 £205 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.53% -4.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £300 £273
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
Average hourly rate £13.75 £15.75 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.20 £10.35 £10.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £21.15 £12.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% +22.58%
All Application Platforms
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
117 145 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 19.83% 20.14% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 61 58
Average daily rate £325 £331 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.88% +6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £193 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 7
Average hourly rate £14.00 £31.75 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.90% +176.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £21.15 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
MS Exchange
East of England

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +19 13 £225 -5.26% 6
Peterborough -9 4 £223 +8.53%
Huntingdon +10 2 - -
MS Exchange
East of England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 46 (83.64%) Windows
2 40 (72.73%) Active Directory
3 36 (65.45%) Microsoft
4 34 (61.82%) Exchange Server 2010
5 29 (52.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 21 (38.18%) Windows XP
7 21 (38.18%) Windows 7
8 20 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
8 20 (36.36%) ITIL
9 18 (32.73%) Exchange Server 2003
10 17 (30.91%) SQL
10 17 (30.91%) DNS
10 17 (30.91%) Citrix
11 16 (29.09%) Blackberry
11 16 (29.09%) SQL Server
12 13 (23.64%) SCOM
12 13 (23.64%) Linux
12 13 (23.64%) MS Excel
12 13 (23.64%) Cisco
12 13 (23.64%) DHCP
13 12 (21.82%) Red Hat
14 11 (20.00%) HP
14 11 (20.00%) Oracle
14 11 (20.00%) MS Office
14 11 (20.00%) PKI
14 11 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (18.18%) XenApp
15 10 (18.18%) WSUS
15 10 (18.18%) VMware

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (1.818%) COM
Application Platforms
1 34 (61.82%) Exchange Server 2010
2 20 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
3 18 (32.73%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (12.73%) Lync
5 6 (10.91%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (7.273%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.818%) IIS
7 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 13 (23.64%) MS Excel
2 11 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.91%) DNS
2 13 (23.64%) DHCP
3 6 (10.91%) Firewall
4 5 (9.091%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.091%) NetScaler
5 4 (7.273%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (7.273%) Wireless
5 4 (7.273%) WAN
6 3 (5.455%) Intranet
6 3 (5.455%) Internet
6 3 (5.455%) VPN
6 3 (5.455%) LAN
6 3 (5.455%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.818%) SAN
7 1 (1.818%) HTTP
7 1 (1.818%) SNMP
7 1 (1.818%) LDAP
7 1 (1.818%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.818%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.818%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.455%) OLAP
4 3 (5.455%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.818%) Subversion
1 1 (1.818%) JIRA
General
1 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Administrator
2 12 (21.82%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 10 (18.18%) Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.273%) Support Analyst
6 4 (7.273%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.455%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.455%) Senior Support Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Service Desk Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Storage Administrator
8 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Field Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 1 (1.818%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.818%) Service Analyst
9 1 (1.818%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Blackberry
2 11 (20.00%) PKI
3 5 (9.091%) Clustering
4 2 (3.636%) iPad
4 2 (3.636%) Replication
5 1 (1.818%) NHS
5 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.818%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 46 (83.64%) Windows
2 29 (52.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (38.18%) Windows XP
4 21 (38.18%) Windows 7
5 13 (23.64%) Linux
6 11 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.818%) Solaris
7 1 (1.818%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.818%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (7.273%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (7.273%) Migration
3 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (1.818%) Software Engineering
4 1 (1.818%) IC Design
4 1 (1.818%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) SQL
2 3 (5.455%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) NCIE
1 2 (3.636%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.636%) Degree
1 2 (3.636%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (3.636%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.18%) XenApp
3 8 (14.55%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.455%) VMware ESX
5 3 (5.455%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.636%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.818%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.818%) NFS
7 1 (1.818%) Samba
7 1 (1.818%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.818%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.818%) vSphere
7 1 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) SCOM
2 10 (18.18%) WSUS
3 6 (10.91%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (10.91%) Backup Exec
4 4 (7.273%) SCCM
5 2 (3.636%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.636%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.818%) ARCserve
6 1 (1.818%) AppManager
Vendors
1 36 (65.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (30.91%) Citrix
3 13 (23.64%) Cisco
4 12 (21.82%) Red Hat
5 11 (20.00%) HP
5 11 (20.00%) Oracle
6 10 (18.18%) VMware
7 6 (10.91%) Altiris
7 6 (10.91%) Symantec
8 5 (9.091%) Dell
9 3 (5.455%) Riverbed
9 3 (5.455%) Exinda
10 2 (3.636%) Brocade
10 2 (3.636%) Toshiba
10 2 (3.636%) EMC
10 2 (3.636%) NetApp
11 1 (1.818%) CommVault
11 1 (1.818%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.818%) Sun
11 1 (1.818%) Intel
Cambridgeshire
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