East of England Exchange Server 5.5 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 skills within the East of England 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 5.5 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
Location Aberdeen Ayr Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey City of London Cornwall East Midlands East of England Ely England Fareham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Kent Leatherhead London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Torpoint UK Wales West Midlands Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	139
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	17	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.240 %	0.718 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£133	-
Average daily rate	£162	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£190	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£253
% change on same period last year	+14.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.40	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£18.40	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-47.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.40	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.47	£21.58
% change on same period last year	+8.72 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	759	696
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.001 %	0.738 %
Daily rates quoted	192	223
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£337
Average daily rate	£374	£352
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.74	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£21.45	£29.23
% change on same period last year	-26.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.16	£30.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 5.5
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the East of England region.

Exchange Server 5.5
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Exchange Server 5.5
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the East of England region.

Exchange Server 5.5
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Exchange Server 5.5
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 5.5 within the East of England 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
Norfolk	-	9	£185	-
Cambridgeshire	-6	5	£125	-
Bedfordshire	-	2	£175	-
Suffolk	-	1	-	-
Hertfordshire	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 5.5 England

Exchange Server 5.5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5.

1 22 (75.86 %) Windows 2 21 (72.41 %) Windows 2000 3 18 (62.07 %) MS Exchange 4 16 (55.17 %) Microsoft 5 15 (51.72 %) Windows NT 6 12 (41.38 %) MS Office 6 12 (41.38 %) Firewall 7 11 (37.93 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (34.48 %) Cisco 9 9 (31.03 %) Active Directory 9 9 (31.03 %) HP 9 9 (31.03 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (31.03 %) Windows XP 9 9 (31.03 %) Network Design 9 9 (31.03 %) Exchange Server 2003

9 9 (31.03 %) Cisco PIX 10 8 (27.59 %) Video Conferencing 10 8 (27.59 %) LAN 10 8 (27.59 %) Novell 10 8 (27.59 %) Service Delivery 11 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft Certification 11 7 (24.14 %) Compaq 11 7 (24.14 %) Dell 11 7 (24.14 %) VPN 11 7 (24.14 %) SMS 11 7 (24.14 %) WLAN 11 7 (24.14 %) MCP 11 7 (24.14 %) Security Cleared 12 6 (20.69 %) ITIL 12 6 (20.69 %) ZENworks

Exchange Server 5.5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 18 (62.07 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (31.03 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (17.24 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (6.897 %) IIS 5 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 12 (41.38 %) MS Office 2 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.448 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 12 (41.38 %) Firewall 2 11 (37.93 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (31.03 %) Cisco PIX 4 8 (27.59 %) LAN 5 7 (24.14 %) SMS 5 7 (24.14 %) WLAN 5 7 (24.14 %) VPN 6 5 (17.24 %) DNS 7 4 (13.79 %) DHCP 8 3 (10.34 %) ADSL 8 3 (10.34 %) ISDN 9 2 (6.897 %) SAN 10 1 (3.448 %) Internet 10 1 (3.448 %) FTP 10 1 (3.448 %) Wireless
General 1 6 (20.69 %) Government	Job Titles 1 11 (37.93 %) Desktop Support 2 8 (27.59 %) Desktop Engineer 3 7 (24.14 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (13.79 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Network Support Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Network Support 5 3 (10.34 %) Senior Support Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Senior Network Support 5 3 (10.34 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Analyst 5 3 (10.34 %) Network Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Consultant 7 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Specialist 7 1 (3.448 %) Messaging Specialist 7 1 (3.448 %) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 8 (27.59 %) Video Conferencing 2 3 (10.34 %) Blackberry 3 1 (3.448 %) Clustering 3 1 (3.448 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 22 (75.86 %) Windows 2 21 (72.41 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (51.72 %) Windows NT 4 9 (31.03 %) Windows XP 4 9 (31.03 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (31.03 %) Network Design 2 8 (27.59 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (24.14 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (20.69 %) ITIL 5 4 (13.79 %) CTC Cleared 6 2 (6.897 %) Data Management 6 2 (6.897 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (3.448 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (3.448 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (24.14 %) MCP 1 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (13.79 %) MCSE	System Software 1 9 (31.03 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 6 (20.69 %) ZENworks 2 5 (17.24 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (3.448 %) MOM 3 1 (3.448 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (3.448 %) DameWare	Vendors 1 16 (55.17 %) Microsoft 2 10 (34.48 %) Cisco 3 9 (31.03 %) HP 4 8 (27.59 %) Novell 5 7 (24.14 %) Compaq 5 7 (24.14 %) Dell 6 2 (6.897 %) NetApp 7 1 (3.448 %) Citrix 7 1 (3.448 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (3.448 %) Symantec 7 1 (3.448 %) Altiris 7 1 (3.448 %) WatchGuard