City of London Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the City of London 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 15 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 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	81
Rank change on same period last year	-43
Matching contract IT job ads	99	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.128 %
As % of the category below	7.870 %	14.84 %
Daily rates quoted	37	17
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£286
Average daily rate	£380	£307
% change on same period last year	+23.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.95	£20.12
Average hourly rate	£26.23	£21.19
% change on same period last year	+23.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£22.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1258	768
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.614 %	0.863 %
Daily rates quoted	595	277
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£423
Average daily rate	£435	£447
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£469	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	64
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£22.51
Average hourly rate	£27.38	£23.86
% change on same period last year	+14.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£25.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Exchange Server 2003 London

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 City of London 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 City of London 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 City of London 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 City of London 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 City of London region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 147 (79.89 %) Windows 2 126 (68.48 %) Active Directory 3 108 (58.70 %) MS Exchange 4 75 (40.76 %) Microsoft 5 55 (29.89 %) Windows Server 2003 6 54 (29.35 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 53 (28.80 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 48 (26.09 %) Blackberry 9 43 (23.37 %) Citrix 10 38 (20.65 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 36 (19.57 %) SAN 11 36 (19.57 %) MS Office 12 32 (17.39 %) Windows XP 12 32 (17.39 %) Migration 13 30 (16.30 %) Banking

13 30 (16.30 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 29 (15.76 %) Windows 2000 15 28 (15.22 %) Microsoft Certification 16 27 (14.67 %) MCSE 16 27 (14.67 %) Finance 17 24 (13.04 %) VMware 17 24 (13.04 %) ITIL 17 24 (13.04 %) DNS 18 21 (11.41 %) TCP/IP 19 20 (10.87 %) DHCP 20 19 (10.33 %) MS Excel 20 19 (10.33 %) Clustering 21 18 (9.783 %) HP 22 17 (9.239 %) SQL Server 23 16 (8.696 %) Cisco

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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 Development 1 4 (2.174 %) ADSI 2 3 (1.630 %) .NET 3 1 (0.543 %) COM 3 1 (0.543 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 108 (58.70 %) MS Exchange 2 54 (29.35 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 53 (28.80 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 38 (20.65 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 30 (16.30 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 11 (5.978 %) SharePoint 7 10 (5.435 %) Lotus Notes 8 9 (4.891 %) IIS 8 9 (4.891 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 3 (1.630 %) MindAlign 10 2 (1.087 %) Live Communications Server
Applications 1 36 (19.57 %) MS Office 2 19 (10.33 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.087 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.543 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.543 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 36 (19.57 %) SAN 2 24 (13.04 %) DNS 3 21 (11.41 %) TCP/IP 4 20 (10.87 %) DHCP 5 14 (7.609 %) WINS 6 13 (7.065 %) SMTP 7 12 (6.522 %) LAN 8 11 (5.978 %) WAN 8 11 (5.978 %) Firewall 9 9 (4.891 %) Wireless 9 9 (4.891 %) Internet 10 6 (3.261 %) LDAP 11 4 (2.174 %) VPN 12 3 (1.630 %) HTTP 13 2 (1.087 %) Kerberos 13 2 (1.087 %) Intranet 13 2 (1.087 %) SMS 13 2 (1.087 %) VoIP 13 2 (1.087 %) VLAN 14 1 (0.543 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (9.239 %) SQL Server 2 9 (4.891 %) SQL Server 2000 3 8 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.543 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 1 (0.543 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (0.543 %) MSI	General 1 30 (16.30 %) Banking 2 27 (14.67 %) Finance 3 16 (8.696 %) Investment Banking 3 16 (8.696 %) Insurance 4 13 (7.065 %) Law 5 12 (6.522 %) Legal 6 6 (3.261 %) Government 7 2 (1.087 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.543 %) Retail 8 1 (0.543 %) Health 8 1 (0.543 %) Education 8 1 (0.543 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.543 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.543 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 43 (23.37 %) Analyst 2 27 (14.67 %) Support Analyst 3 23 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 4 22 (11.96 %) Support Engineer 5 16 (8.696 %) 3rd Line Support 5 16 (8.696 %) Server Support 6 13 (7.065 %) Administrator 7 12 (6.522 %) Desktop Engineer 8 11 (5.978 %) Consultant 8 11 (5.978 %) Exchange Specialist 9 10 (5.435 %) Infrastructure Engineer 10 9 (4.891 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 9 (4.891 %) Server Analyst 11 8 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Analyst 11 8 (4.348 %) 2nd Line Support 12 7 (3.804 %) Systems Administrator 12 7 (3.804 %) Systems Engineer 12 7 (3.804 %) Server Support Analyst 12 7 (3.804 %) Server Engineer 12 7 (3.804 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 48 (26.09 %) Blackberry 2 19 (10.33 %) Clustering 3 3 (1.630 %) Web 2.0 3 3 (1.630 %) PDA 3 3 (1.630 %) Video Conferencing 4 2 (1.087 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.087 %) Replication 4 2 (1.087 %) CLARiiON 5 1 (0.543 %) Symmetrix 5 1 (0.543 %) EMC Centera 5 1 (0.543 %) Statistics 5 1 (0.543 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.543 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.543 %) NHS 5 1 (0.543 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 147 (79.89 %) Windows 2 55 (29.89 %) Windows Server 2003 3 32 (17.39 %) Windows XP 4 29 (15.76 %) Windows 2000 5 13 (7.065 %) Windows NT 6 10 (5.435 %) Unix 7 3 (1.630 %) Windows CE 7 3 (1.630 %) Linux 8 2 (1.087 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (1.087 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.543 %) AIX 9 1 (0.543 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (17.39 %) Migration 2 24 (13.04 %) ITIL 3 12 (6.522 %) PRINCE2 4 7 (3.804 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (1.087 %) Workflow 5 2 (1.087 %) Document Management 5 2 (1.087 %) Logistics 5 2 (1.087 %) CAD 5 2 (1.087 %) Process Management 5 2 (1.087 %) Strategic Planning 5 2 (1.087 %) Incident Management 5 2 (1.087 %) Problem Management 5 2 (1.087 %) Electronic Trading 5 2 (1.087 %) Investment Management 6 1 (0.543 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (0.543 %) Resource Management 6 1 (0.543 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (0.543 %) Change Management 6 1 (0.543 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (0.543 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 12 (6.522 %) VBScript 2 11 (5.978 %) SQL 3 4 (2.174 %) VB 4 3 (1.630 %) C# 4 3 (1.630 %) Perl 5 2 (1.087 %) Java 5 2 (1.087 %) VB.NET 6 1 (0.543 %) C	Qualifications 1 28 (15.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 27 (14.67 %) MCSE 3 7 (3.804 %) MCP 4 6 (3.261 %) Degree 5 3 (1.630 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (1.630 %) MCSA 6 2 (1.087 %) CCNA 6 2 (1.087 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 2 (1.087 %) Cisco Certification 7 1 (0.543 %) CCDA 7 1 (0.543 %) MCSD 7 1 (0.543 %) MCDBA 7 1 (0.543 %) MCT 7 1 (0.543 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (7.065 %) SLA 2 1 (0.543 %) QA 2 1 (0.543 %) JSP 440 2 1 (0.543 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 126 (68.48 %) Active Directory 2 7 (3.804 %) ISA Server 2 7 (3.804 %) NetBackup 2 7 (3.804 %) Backup Exec 2 7 (3.804 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 7 (3.804 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 5 (2.717 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (1.630 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (1.087 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.543 %) VMware GSX 6 1 (0.543 %) VMware Server 6 1 (0.543 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 4 (2.174 %) WSUS 2 3 (1.630 %) MOM 2 3 (1.630 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (1.630 %) ARCserve 2 3 (1.630 %) MIMEsweeper 2 3 (1.630 %) MAILsweeper 3 2 (1.087 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (1.087 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.543 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (0.543 %) EMC TimeFinder 4 1 (0.543 %) BMC PATROL 4 1 (0.543 %) Tivoli 4 1 (0.543 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 75 (40.76 %) Microsoft 2 43 (23.37 %) Citrix 3 24 (13.04 %) VMware 4 18 (9.783 %) HP 5 16 (8.696 %) Cisco 6 10 (5.435 %) Lotus 7 8 (4.348 %) Bloomberg 8 7 (3.804 %) VERITAS 8 7 (3.804 %) Symantec 8 7 (3.804 %) EMC 9 6 (3.261 %) IBM 9 6 (3.261 %) CheckPoint 9 6 (3.261 %) Reuters 9 6 (3.261 %) Nokia 10 5 (2.717 %) NetIQ 11 4 (2.174 %) NetApp 12 3 (1.630 %) Interwoven 12 3 (1.630 %) Compaq 12 3 (1.630 %) Dell 12 3 (1.630 %) Wyse