Docklands, London Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Docklands, 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 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	67	89
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	3	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.655 %	5.442 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£400	£325
% change on same period last year	+23.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.33
Average hourly rate	-	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Application Platforms Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	113	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.151 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	61	56
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£403
Average daily rate	£353	£434
% change on same period last year	-18.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.71	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£23.71	£23.88
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.71	£24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Docklands, 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 IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft 2 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory 3 5 (45.45 %) Banking 3 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (36.36 %) Investment Banking 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 6 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (18.18 %) Finance

7 1 (9.091 %) Government 7 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (9.091 %) VMware 7 1 (9.091 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 7 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 7 1 (9.091 %) Symantec 7 1 (9.091 %) Sophos 7 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (9.091 %) PMI 7 1 (9.091 %) SAN 7 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (9.091 %) MOM 7 1 (9.091 %) EMC

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 Platforms 1 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (27.27 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (9.091 %) Live Communications Server 5 1 (9.091 %) MindAlign	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) VPN 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 5 (45.45 %) Banking 2 4 (36.36 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (18.18 %) Finance 4 1 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Citrix Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Deployment Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Messaging Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Citrix Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Messaging Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 2 1 (9.091 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Quality Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL 1 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 6 (54.55 %) Active Directory 2 1 (9.091 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (9.091 %) MailMarshal 2 1 (9.091 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 3 (27.27 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (9.091 %) MOM	Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) EMC 2 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 2 1 (9.091 %) Symantec 2 1 (9.091 %) Sophos 2 1 (9.091 %) VMware