East of England ISA Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISA Server over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Location Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester City of London Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hove Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	155
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.742 %	1.650 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£148
Average daily rate	-	£152
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£155
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£241
% change on same period last year	+43.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.89	£22.80
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
System Software East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	287	303
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.388 %	0.299 %
Daily rates quoted	60	69
Average minimum daily rate	£238	£294
Average daily rate	£253	£304
% change on same period last year	-16.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£324
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.85	£21.47
Average hourly rate	£19.69	£22.45
% change on same period last year	-12.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.52	£23.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.21	£21.89
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
ISA Server 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISA Server across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA Server within the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Cambridgeshire	+21	3	-	-
Essex	+4	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server.

1 6 (66.67 %) Windows 2 3 (33.33 %) IIS 2 3 (33.33 %) MCP 2 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (33.33 %) A+ Certification 2 3 (33.33 %) EPoS 2 3 (33.33 %) Terminal Services 2 3 (33.33 %) Capita 2 3 (33.33 %) Data Protection 3 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (22.22 %) CheckPoint 3 2 (22.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 3 2 (22.22 %) Citrix

3 2 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (22.22 %) CCNA 3 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 3 2 (22.22 %) DNS 3 2 (22.22 %) Cisco 3 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (11.11 %) LAN 4 1 (11.11 %) WAN 4 1 (11.11 %) SMTP 4 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (11.11 %) UNIX 4 1 (11.11 %) CCNP 4 1 (11.11 %) VPN 4 1 (11.11 %) CCDP 4 1 (11.11 %) NHS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (33.33 %) IIS 2 2 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000	Communications & Networking 1 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 1 2 (22.22 %) DNS 2 1 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 1 (11.11 %) VPN 2 1 (11.11 %) LAN 2 1 (11.11 %) WAN 2 1 (11.11 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 3 (33.33 %) IT Support Engineer 2 2 (22.22 %) Network Support 2 2 (22.22 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (22.22 %) Consultant 2 2 (22.22 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (11.11 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Technician 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Network Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Specialist 3 1 (11.11 %) Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Network Consultant 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Consultant 3 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Field Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Network Technician 3 1 (11.11 %) Senior Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (33.33 %) EPoS 2 1 (11.11 %) NHS 2 1 (11.11 %) Management Information System 2 1 (11.11 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 6 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (11.11 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (11.11 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Data Protection 2 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 3 1 (11.11 %) Information Security 3 1 (11.11 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2
Qualifications 1 3 (33.33 %) MCP 1 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (33.33 %) A+ Certification 2 2 (22.22 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (22.22 %) CCNA 3 1 (11.11 %) CCDP 3 1 (11.11 %) CCNP	System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 3 (33.33 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Capita 2 2 (22.22 %) CheckPoint 2 2 (22.22 %) Cisco 2 2 (22.22 %) Citrix 3 1 (11.11 %) Nokia