City of London Exchange Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 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 job ads that have cited Exchange Server 2007 over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	186	194
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	37	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.128 %	0.641 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£274
Average daily rate	£423	£286
% change on same period last year	+47.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£453	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£362
% change on same period last year	-8.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.71	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.43	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.72	£23.88
% change on same period last year	+11.89 %
Application Platforms City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1183	780
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.571 %	0.800 %
Daily rates quoted	574	301
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£412
Average daily rate	£405	£436
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£461
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.74	£20.57
Average hourly rate	£27.40	£21.92
% change on same period last year	+25.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.07	£23.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.09	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Exchange Server 2007 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 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the City of London region.

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the City of London region.

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

1 59 (52.68 %) MS Exchange 2 58 (51.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 53 (47.32 %) Active Directory 4 52 (46.43 %) Windows 5 39 (34.82 %) Microsoft 6 33 (29.46 %) Finance 7 32 (28.57 %) Migration 8 27 (24.11 %) Banking 8 27 (24.11 %) Blackberry 9 24 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 10 23 (20.54 %) Lotus 11 22 (19.64 %) Lotus Notes 11 22 (19.64 %) SharePoint 11 22 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 18 (16.07 %) MCSE

12 18 (16.07 %) Microsoft Certification 13 16 (14.29 %) SAN 13 16 (14.29 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 15 (13.39 %) Legal 14 15 (13.39 %) SMTP 15 14 (12.50 %) Citrix 15 14 (12.50 %) MS Office 15 14 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 14 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 16 13 (11.61 %) Clustering 16 13 (11.61 %) C# 16 13 (11.61 %) .NET 17 12 (10.71 %) SQL 18 11 (9.821 %) PRINCE2 18 11 (9.821 %) DNS

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (11.61 %) .NET 2 5 (4.464 %) ADSI 3 2 (1.786 %) WMI 4 1 (0.893 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 59 (52.68 %) MS Exchange 2 58 (51.79 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 22 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 22 (19.64 %) Lotus Notes 3 22 (19.64 %) SharePoint 4 16 (14.29 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 14 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 11 (9.821 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 10 (8.929 %) Office Communications Server 8 8 (7.143 %) Lotus Domino 9 2 (1.786 %) IIS 9 2 (1.786 %) SAS 9 2 (1.786 %) Live Communications Server 10 1 (0.893 %) MindAlign 10 1 (0.893 %) CMS 10 1 (0.893 %) QuickPlace
Applications 1 14 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 7 (6.250 %) MS Excel 3 4 (3.571 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.893 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 16 (14.29 %) SAN 2 15 (13.39 %) SMTP 3 11 (9.821 %) DNS 4 9 (8.036 %) TCP/IP 4 9 (8.036 %) DHCP 5 7 (6.250 %) LDAP 6 2 (1.786 %) Kerberos 6 2 (1.786 %) iSCSI 7 1 (0.893 %) LAN 7 1 (0.893 %) WAN 7 1 (0.893 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (6.250 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 1 (0.893 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 9 (8.036 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (7.143 %) TestDirector
General 1 33 (29.46 %) Finance 2 27 (24.11 %) Banking 3 15 (13.39 %) Legal 4 14 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 5 7 (6.250 %) Law 6 4 (3.571 %) Government 7 3 (2.679 %) Back Office 8 2 (1.786 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.893 %) Telecoms 9 1 (0.893 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.893 %) Police	Job Titles 1 15 (13.39 %) Analyst 1 15 (13.39 %) Exchange Specialist 2 10 (8.929 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (8.036 %) Consultant 3 9 (8.036 %) Exchange Engineer 4 8 (7.143 %) Trainer 5 7 (6.250 %) Test Manager 6 6 (5.357 %) Architect 6 6 (5.357 %) Messaging Specialist 6 6 (5.357 %) Exchange Consultant 7 5 (4.464 %) Systems Engineer 8 4 (3.571 %) 3rd Line Support 8 4 (3.571 %) Project Manager 8 4 (3.571 %) Desktop Support 8 4 (3.571 %) Administrator 8 4 (3.571 %) Server Engineer 9 3 (2.679 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (2.679 %) Messaging Analyst 9 3 (2.679 %) Messaging Engineer 10 2 (1.786 %) Fidessa Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 27 (24.11 %) Blackberry 2 13 (11.61 %) Clustering 3 3 (2.679 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (1.786 %) Equities	Operating Systems 1 52 (46.43 %) Windows 2 24 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (6.250 %) UNIX 4 4 (3.571 %) Linux 5 3 (2.679 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (2.679 %) Windows XP 6 2 (1.786 %) Windows NT 6 2 (1.786 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.893 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.893 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (28.57 %) Migration 2 11 (9.821 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (8.929 %) ITIL 4 8 (7.143 %) CRM 5 7 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (1.786 %) Project Management 6 2 (1.786 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (1.786 %) Workflow 6 2 (1.786 %) Strategic Planning 6 2 (1.786 %) Problem Management 6 2 (1.786 %) Investment Management 6 2 (1.786 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (0.893 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (0.893 %) Data Management 7 1 (0.893 %) Identity Management 7 1 (0.893 %) Change Management 7 1 (0.893 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (11.61 %) C# 2 12 (10.71 %) SQL 3 4 (3.571 %) VB.NET 4 3 (2.679 %) VBScript 4 3 (2.679 %) VB 5 2 (1.786 %) PowerShell 5 2 (1.786 %) C
Qualifications 1 18 (16.07 %) MCSE 1 18 (16.07 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (7.143 %) MCSD 2 8 (7.143 %) MCDBA 2 8 (7.143 %) MCT 3 7 (6.250 %) MCP 4 2 (1.786 %) MCSA 4 2 (1.786 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.893 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.893 %) Degree 5 1 (0.893 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (8.036 %) QA 2 8 (7.143 %) ISO9001 3 7 (6.250 %) SLA
System Software 1 53 (47.32 %) Active Directory 2 6 (5.357 %) ISA Server 3 3 (2.679 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (1.786 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.786 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 2 (1.786 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.893 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.893 %) MailMarshal	Systems Management 1 1 (0.893 %) MOM
Vendors 1 39 (34.82 %) Microsoft 2 23 (20.54 %) Lotus 3 14 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 3 (2.679 %) NetApp 4 3 (2.679 %) HP 4 3 (2.679 %) VMware 5 2 (1.786 %) EMC 5 2 (1.786 %) Reuters 5 2 (1.786 %) Bloomberg 5 2 (1.786 %) Sun 5 2 (1.786 %) Fidessa 5 2 (1.786 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.786 %) IBM 6 1 (0.893 %) Dell 6 1 (0.893 %) Symantec 6 1 (0.893 %) IronPort