The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2010 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 Cheshire 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 2010
Rank 44 60 71
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +11
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 23 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 3.125% 1.008% 0.109%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.54% 5.263% 0.806%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
Average daily rate £252 £113 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+124.00% -71.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £280 £270
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £20.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.40% +18.57%
All Application Platforms
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
148 152 124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 20.11% 19.14% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 74 77
Average daily rate £325 £313 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £222 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £439 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 4
Average hourly rate £20.77 £20.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.85% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £14.00 £24.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Exchange Server 2010
North West

Exchange Server 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Cheshire Exchange Server 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cheshire Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Exchange Server 2010 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
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 2010 within the Cheshire 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
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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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Chester - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Exchange Server 2010
North West

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010.

1 38 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 29 (76.32%) Windows
3 25 (65.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (60.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 19 (50.00%) Migration
6 18 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 15 (39.47%) SMTP
8 14 (36.84%) ITIL
8 14 (36.84%) VMware
9 13 (34.21%) Clustering
9 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
9 13 (34.21%) Blackberry
9 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
9 13 (34.21%) Citrix
10 11 (28.95%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
11 9 (23.68%) Finance
12 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
12 7 (18.42%) Exchange Server 2003
13 6 (15.79%) Capacity Management
13 6 (15.79%) LAN
13 6 (15.79%) WAN
13 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
14 5 (13.16%) UNIX
14 5 (13.16%) MS Excel
14 5 (13.16%) AIX
14 5 (13.16%) Linux
14 5 (13.16%) MCITP
14 5 (13.16%) MCTS

Exchange Server 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.263%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 38 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 18 (47.37%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (28.95%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (18.42%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.632%) IIS
6 1 (2.632%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.895%) MS Office
3 2 (5.263%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) SMTP
2 6 (15.79%) LAN
2 6 (15.79%) WAN
3 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.895%) SAN
4 3 (7.895%) DNS
5 2 (5.263%) VLAN
5 2 (5.263%) DHCP
5 2 (5.263%) Firewall
6 1 (2.632%) HTTP
6 1 (2.632%) SNMP
6 1 (2.632%) SSL
6 1 (2.632%) VoIP
6 1 (2.632%) NAS
6 1 (2.632%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.263%) DB2
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.632%) Law
4 1 (2.632%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Messaging Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (10.53%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.895%) Architect
5 3 (7.895%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.895%) Programme Manager
5 3 (7.895%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.895%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (7.895%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (7.895%) Messaging Consultant
5 3 (7.895%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Systems Support Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Technical Designer
6 2 (5.263%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Clustering
1 13 (34.21%) Blackberry
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.263%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.263%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 25 (65.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (60.53%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (13.16%) UNIX
4 5 (13.16%) AIX
4 5 (13.16%) Linux
5 3 (7.895%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.632%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Migration
2 14 (36.84%) ITIL
3 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
4 6 (15.79%) Capacity Management
5 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
7 3 (7.895%) Service Management
7 3 (7.895%) Service Desk Management
7 3 (7.895%) Programme Management
8 2 (5.263%) Service Delivery
9 1 (2.632%) Change Management
9 1 (2.632%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (2.632%) Network Management
9 1 (2.632%) Load Balancing
9 1 (2.632%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.895%) SQL
3 1 (2.632%) Perl
3 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.16%) MCITP
2 5 (13.16%) MCTS
3 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (7.895%) MCSE
4 3 (7.895%) MCSA
4 3 (7.895%) MCP
5 2 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.632%) CCNA
6 1 (2.632%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) XenApp
3 3 (7.895%) vSphere
3 3 (7.895%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.263%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (2.632%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (2.632%) Postfix
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.632%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (2.632%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (2.632%) SCCM
2 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) VMware
2 13 (34.21%) Citrix
3 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.53%) HP
5 3 (7.895%) Cisco
5 3 (7.895%) Oracle
6 2 (5.263%) SAP
6 2 (5.263%) Remedy
7 1 (2.632%) Symantec
7 1 (2.632%) Hitachi
7 1 (2.632%) NetApp
7 1 (2.632%) EMC
7 1 (2.632%) Twitter
7 1 (2.632%) IronPort
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