East Midlands Exchange Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 skills within the East Midlands 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newbury North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Reigate Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	86
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.538 %	1.103 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£389
% change on same period last year	-13.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£9.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-62.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.95	£20.20
% change on same period last year	+23.53 %
Application Platforms East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	325	272
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.429 %	0.289 %
Daily rates quoted	85	46
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£295
Average daily rate	£328	£307
% change on same period last year	+7.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.95	£20.19
Average hourly rate	£18.08	£21.00
% change on same period last year	-13.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.22	£21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Exchange Server 2007 England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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 East Midlands region.

Exchange Server 2007
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Exchange Server 2007 within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 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
Derbyshire	-	2	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-11	1	-	-
Northamptonshire	-9	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2007 England

Exchange Server 2007
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 6 (85.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 3 4 (57.14 %) Windows 4 3 (42.86 %) SharePoint 4 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 4 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 5 2 (28.57 %) Blackberry 5 2 (28.57 %) SQL 5 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 5 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (28.57 %) MCSE 5 2 (28.57 %) HP

5 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 1 (14.29 %) MOM 6 1 (14.29 %) Dell 6 1 (14.29 %) IBM 6 1 (14.29 %) MCSA 6 1 (14.29 %) CRM 6 1 (14.29 %) Firewall 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware 6 1 (14.29 %) Clustering 6 1 (14.29 %) Dynamics CRM 6 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Platforms 1 6 (85.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (57.14 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (42.86 %) SharePoint 4 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Dynamics CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) Firewall
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Software Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Blackberry 2 1 (14.29 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) MCSE 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSA
System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (14.29 %) MOM
Vendors 1 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) HP 3 1 (14.29 %) Dell 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) IBM