The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Dunstable 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank - 6 -
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable - 22.22% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+10.09% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- +9.37%
All Application Platforms
Dunstable
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 40.00% 44.44% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £475 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
MS Exchange
Bedfordshire

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dunstable MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) LANDesk
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Support
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) LANDesk