Devon Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Devon 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	29
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	6	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	13.64 %	40.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£23.33
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-51.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Application Platforms Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	44	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	17	2
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£217
Average daily rate	£324	£257
% change on same period last year	+25.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.38	£22.89
Average hourly rate	£29.44	£26.05
% change on same period last year	+12.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£29.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2003 South West

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Devon 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 IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Devon region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Devon region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Exeter	+5	3	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 South West

Exchange Server 2003
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 13 (86.67 %) Windows 2 12 (80.00 %) Active Directory 3 10 (66.67 %) VMware 4 9 (60.00 %) Windows XP 4 9 (60.00 %) MS Exchange 5 8 (53.33 %) MS Excel 5 8 (53.33 %) VMware ESX 6 7 (46.67 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (40.00 %) Firewall 7 6 (40.00 %) SQL Server 8 5 (33.33 %) .NET 8 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft 8 5 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 5 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 9 4 (26.67 %) SAN

9 4 (26.67 %) HP 9 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 10 3 (20.00 %) SMS 10 3 (20.00 %) WAN 10 3 (20.00 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (20.00 %) Dell 10 3 (20.00 %) VERITAS 10 3 (20.00 %) Citrix 11 2 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 2 (13.33 %) Summit 11 2 (13.33 %) Nortel 12 1 (6.667 %) Management Information System 12 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (60.00 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 8 (53.33 %) MS Excel 2 4 (26.67 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (13.33 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 6 (40.00 %) Firewall 2 4 (26.67 %) SAN 3 3 (20.00 %) SMS 3 3 (20.00 %) WAN 3 3 (20.00 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (40.00 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 7 (46.67 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (20.00 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (20.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (20.00 %) PC Support 2 3 (20.00 %) Windows Server Engineer 3 2 (13.33 %) PC Support Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (13.33 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Analyst 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Support 4 1 (6.667 %) Network Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 13 (86.67 %) Windows 2 9 (60.00 %) Windows XP 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows Server 2003	System Software 1 12 (80.00 %) Active Directory 2 8 (53.33 %) VMware ESX 3 5 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (13.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (6.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 5 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (66.67 %) VMware 2 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 4 (26.67 %) HP 4 3 (20.00 %) Dell 4 3 (20.00 %) Citrix 4 3 (20.00 %) VERITAS 5 2 (13.33 %) Nortel