The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2010 over the 3 months to 20 June 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 East of England 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Rank 70 82 118
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +36
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 48 53 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.137% 1.778% 0.358%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.82% 10.33% 1.795%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 8
Average daily rate £225 £313 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +48.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £246 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £475 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £280 £270
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
Average hourly rate £23.50 £20.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.50% +81.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.25 £20.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.40% +18.57%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
406 513 557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.08% 17.21% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 238 255
Average daily rate £300 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £233 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 45 41
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.13 £35.00 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Exchange Server 2010
England

Exchange Server 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

East of England Exchange Server 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the East of England region.

East of England Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

East of England Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the East of England region.

East of England Exchange Server 2010 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

East of England Exchange Server 2010 Hourly Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +13 13 £224 -25.41% 2
Essex -14 12 £225 -47.05% 1
Norfolk +10 11 £225 -12.62%
Hertfordshire +27 7 £180 -23.40% 4
Bedfordshire -4 4 £350 -6.66% 1
Suffolk +8 1 - - 1
Exchange Server 2010
England

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010.

1 109 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 81 (74.31%) Windows
3 73 (66.97%) Windows Server 2008
4 72 (66.06%) Active Directory
5 56 (51.38%) Microsoft
6 52 (47.71%) Exchange Server 2003
7 50 (45.87%) Exchange Server 2007
8 45 (41.28%) VMware
9 44 (40.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 39 (35.78%) SQL
11 37 (33.94%) ITIL
12 31 (28.44%) DNS
12 31 (28.44%) HP
13 30 (27.52%) SQL Server
14 27 (24.77%) Hyper-V
15 26 (23.85%) Windows XP
16 23 (21.10%) Blackberry
17 22 (20.18%) SQL Server 2008
17 22 (20.18%) Windows 7
18 20 (18.35%) Symantec
19 19 (17.43%) Disaster Recovery
20 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Certification
20 18 (16.51%) Oracle
20 18 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
21 17 (15.60%) Forefront TMG
21 17 (15.60%) DHCP
21 17 (15.60%) Cisco
21 17 (15.60%) Migration
21 17 (15.60%) Backup Exec
22 15 (13.76%) IIS

Exchange Server 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (0.917%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 109 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 52 (47.71%) Exchange Server 2003
3 50 (45.87%) Exchange Server 2007
4 15 (13.76%) IIS
5 13 (11.93%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 11 (10.09%) Lync
7 5 (4.587%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.835%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.917%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (11.01%) MS Office
2 9 (8.257%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.835%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.917%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.44%) DNS
2 17 (15.60%) DHCP
3 13 (11.93%) SAN
3 13 (11.93%) WAN
3 13 (11.93%) TCP/IP
4 11 (10.09%) LAN
5 9 (8.257%) Firewall
6 6 (5.505%) Unified Communications
7 5 (4.587%) Wireless
7 5 (4.587%) NetScaler
8 4 (3.670%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (3.670%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.752%) Intranet
9 3 (2.752%) Internet
9 3 (2.752%) VPN
9 3 (2.752%) LDAP
10 2 (1.835%) NAS
11 1 (0.917%) VoIP
11 1 (0.917%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.917%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.52%) SQL Server
2 22 (20.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (11.01%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (7.339%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (2.752%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.752%) OLAP
6 2 (1.835%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (0.917%) JIRA
1 1 (0.917%) Subversion
General
1 3 (2.752%) Finance
2 2 (1.835%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (11.93%) Administrator
4 11 (10.09%) Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (7.339%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.422%) Consultant
7 4 (3.670%) Support Analyst
7 4 (3.670%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.752%) Team Leader
8 3 (2.752%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (2.752%) Senior Support Engineer
8 3 (2.752%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (2.752%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (2.752%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (2.752%) Exchange Specialist
9 2 (1.835%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (1.835%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (1.835%) 2nd Line Support Technician
9 2 (1.835%) Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Blackberry
2 14 (12.84%) Clustering
3 13 (11.93%) PKI
4 7 (6.422%) PACS
5 4 (3.670%) NHS
6 2 (1.835%) Replication
7 1 (0.917%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.917%) CMDB
7 1 (0.917%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 81 (74.31%) Windows
2 73 (66.97%) Windows Server 2008
3 44 (40.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (23.85%) Windows XP
5 22 (20.18%) Windows 7
6 14 (12.84%) Windows 8
7 13 (11.93%) Linux
8 11 (10.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.670%) Windows 2000 Server
9 4 (3.670%) Windows Vista
10 2 (1.835%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.835%) UNIX
10 2 (1.835%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.917%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) ITIL
2 19 (17.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (15.60%) Migration
4 10 (9.174%) PRINCE2
5 9 (8.257%) PRINCE
6 6 (5.505%) Performance Management
7 3 (2.752%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (1.835%) High Availability
8 2 (1.835%) Data Management
8 2 (1.835%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (1.835%) Project Management
9 1 (0.917%) IC Design
9 1 (0.917%) Service Delivery
9 1 (0.917%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (0.917%) Test Scripting
9 1 (0.917%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.78%) SQL
2 6 (5.505%) VBScript
2 6 (5.505%) VB
3 5 (4.587%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.752%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.917%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (13.76%) MCITP
3 14 (12.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (12.84%) MCSE
4 9 (8.257%) VCP5
5 8 (7.339%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (6.422%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.587%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.752%) Degree
9 2 (1.835%) VCP4
9 2 (1.835%) NCIE
9 2 (1.835%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.917%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.917%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.587%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (66.06%) Active Directory
2 27 (24.77%) Hyper-V
3 18 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (15.60%) Forefront TMG
5 10 (9.174%) vSphere
5 10 (9.174%) UAG
6 9 (8.257%) XenApp
7 8 (7.339%) VMware ESX
7 8 (7.339%) ISA Server
8 4 (3.670%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.752%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.835%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.835%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.835%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.917%) NFS
11 1 (0.917%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.917%) Samba
11 1 (0.917%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (15.60%) Backup Exec
2 14 (12.84%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 12 (11.01%) WSUS
4 11 (10.09%) SCOM
5 5 (4.587%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (3.670%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (3.670%) SCCM
6 4 (3.670%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.835%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.835%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.917%) AppManager
Vendors
1 56 (51.38%) Microsoft
2 45 (41.28%) VMware
3 31 (28.44%) HP
4 20 (18.35%) Symantec
5 18 (16.51%) Oracle
6 17 (15.60%) Cisco
7 14 (12.84%) Citrix
8 13 (11.93%) Dell
9 12 (11.01%) Red Hat
10 11 (10.09%) Veritas
11 8 (7.339%) CommVault
12 7 (6.422%) ADIC
12 7 (6.422%) Compaq
13 6 (5.505%) Altiris
13 6 (5.505%) Sophos
14 5 (4.587%) McAfee
15 4 (3.670%) Veeam
15 4 (3.670%) Websense
16 3 (2.752%) Apple
16 3 (2.752%) Brocade
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