East of England MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	84
Rank change on same period last year	+45
Matching contract IT job ads	158	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.203 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	19.90 %	9.077 %
Daily rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£233
Average daily rate	£281	£240
% change on same period last year	+17.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£248
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.57	£23.16
Average hourly rate	£16.75	£24.05
% change on same period last year	-30.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.94	£24.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	794	650
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.019 %	0.730 %
Daily rates quoted	219	208
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£337
Average daily rate	£376	£359
% change on same period last year	+4.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	129	78
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.45	£24.36
Average hourly rate	£21.23	£25.78
% change on same period last year	-17.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.01	£27.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Cambridgeshire	+20	55	£133	-46.57 %
2	Hertfordshire	+20	45	£368	+8.28 %
3	Essex	+10	43	£191	+15.83 %
4	Suffolk	+7	18	-	-
5	Norfolk	+21	5	-	-
6	Bedfordshire	+7	1	-	-
6	East Anglia	-	1	-	-

MS Exchange England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 144 (60.50 %) Microsoft 2 142 (59.66 %) Active Directory 3 134 (56.30 %) Windows 4 90 (37.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 77 (32.35 %) MS Office 6 56 (23.53 %) Microsoft Certification 7 45 (18.91 %) DNS 8 43 (18.07 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 42 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 10 41 (17.23 %) Firewall 11 40 (16.81 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 40 (16.81 %) Cisco 12 39 (16.39 %) MCSE 12 39 (16.39 %) Dell 13 38 (15.97 %) Citrix

13 38 (15.97 %) MS Excel 14 36 (15.13 %) Windows NT 14 36 (15.13 %) LAN 15 35 (14.71 %) HP 16 33 (13.87 %) TCP/IP 17 31 (13.03 %) ITIL 18 30 (12.61 %) WAN 19 29 (12.18 %) Blackberry 20 27 (11.34 %) Windows Server 2003 21 24 (10.08 %) VoIP 22 23 (9.664 %) VPN 23 21 (8.824 %) Windows XP 24 20 (8.403 %) Migration 25 19 (7.983 %) Telecoms 26 18 (7.563 %) DHCP

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (3.782 %) HTML 2 7 (2.941 %) ASP 3 3 (1.261 %) .NET 4 2 (0.840 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 90 (37.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 43 (18.07 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 40 (16.81 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 17 (7.143 %) SharePoint 5 10 (4.202 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 9 (3.782 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 9 (3.782 %) IIS 7 5 (2.101 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (0.840 %) GroupWise 9 1 (0.420 %) BizTalk Server 9 1 (0.420 %) Office Project Server 9 1 (0.420 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 77 (32.35 %) MS Office 2 38 (15.97 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.261 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.840 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.420 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (0.840 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.420 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 45 (18.91 %) DNS 2 41 (17.23 %) Firewall 3 36 (15.13 %) LAN 4 33 (13.87 %) TCP/IP 5 30 (12.61 %) WAN 6 24 (10.08 %) VoIP 7 23 (9.664 %) VPN 8 18 (7.563 %) DHCP 9 16 (6.723 %) ISDN 10 14 (5.882 %) ADSL 11 12 (5.042 %) SAN 11 12 (5.042 %) Internet 11 12 (5.042 %) Intrusion Detection 12 8 (3.361 %) MPLS 13 7 (2.941 %) WINS 14 4 (1.681 %) WLAN 14 4 (1.681 %) Cisco PIX 15 3 (1.261 %) iSCSI 16 2 (0.840 %) Network Security 16 2 (0.840 %) Cisco IPT	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (7.563 %) SQL Server 2 9 (3.782 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (0.840 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (0.840 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (0.840 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (0.840 %) MS Access 4 1 (0.420 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (0.840 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (0.840 %) MSI 1 2 (0.840 %) AdminStudio	General 1 19 (7.983 %) Telecoms 2 16 (6.723 %) Finance 3 7 (2.941 %) Electronics 4 6 (2.521 %) Back Office 5 5 (2.101 %) Legal 6 3 (1.261 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (1.261 %) Insurance 7 2 (0.840 %) Construction 8 1 (0.420 %) Education 8 1 (0.420 %) Government 8 1 (0.420 %) Law 8 1 (0.420 %) Games 8 1 (0.420 %) Banking 8 1 (0.420 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (0.420 %) Online Games 8 1 (0.420 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 70 (29.41 %) Analyst 2 56 (23.53 %) Support Analyst 3 51 (21.43 %) Support Engineer 3 51 (21.43 %) 2nd Line Support 4 27 (11.34 %) Desktop Support 5 21 (8.824 %) Network Engineer 5 21 (8.824 %) 3rd Line Support 6 17 (7.143 %) Server Engineer 7 15 (6.303 %) Network Support 7 15 (6.303 %) Helpdesk Support 8 14 (5.882 %) Network Support Engineer 9 13 (5.462 %) Technical Support 10 12 (5.042 %) Consultant 11 11 (4.622 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 11 (4.622 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 12 10 (4.202 %) Desktop Engineer 12 10 (4.202 %) Desktop Support Engineer 12 10 (4.202 %) Service Desk Analyst 12 10 (4.202 %) Service Analyst 12 10 (4.202 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 29 (12.18 %) Blackberry 2 7 (2.941 %) PDA 3 3 (1.261 %) Fat Client 3 3 (1.261 %) Client/Server 3 3 (1.261 %) NHS 3 3 (1.261 %) Thin Client 4 2 (0.840 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.420 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 134 (56.30 %) Windows 2 42 (17.65 %) Windows 2000 3 36 (15.13 %) Windows NT 4 27 (11.34 %) Windows Server 2003 5 21 (8.824 %) Windows XP 6 14 (5.882 %) Linux 7 11 (4.622 %) NetWare 8 4 (1.681 %) Unix 8 4 (1.681 %) Solaris 9 1 (0.420 %) AIX 9 1 (0.420 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (13.03 %) ITIL 2 20 (8.403 %) Migration 3 16 (6.723 %) Incident Management 3 16 (6.723 %) Problem Management 4 5 (2.101 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (1.681 %) ERP 6 2 (0.840 %) Service Management 6 2 (0.840 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (0.840 %) Time Management 7 1 (0.420 %) Change Management 7 1 (0.420 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (0.420 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (0.420 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 17 (7.143 %) SQL 2 10 (4.202 %) VB 3 3 (1.261 %) C 3 3 (1.261 %) Perl 4 2 (0.840 %) C# 4 2 (0.840 %) C++ 4 2 (0.840 %) JavaScript 4 2 (0.840 %) VBA 4 2 (0.840 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (0.840 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 56 (23.53 %) Microsoft Certification 2 39 (16.39 %) MCSE 3 13 (5.462 %) MCSA 3 13 (5.462 %) MCP 4 8 (3.361 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 7 (2.941 %) Degree 6 6 (2.521 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (1.681 %) CCNA 8 3 (1.261 %) ITIL Certification 9 2 (0.840 %) CNA 9 2 (0.840 %) Novell Certification 10 1 (0.420 %) CCA 10 1 (0.420 %) Citrix Certification 10 1 (0.420 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (5.462 %) SLA 2 2 (0.840 %) QA 2 2 (0.840 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 142 (59.66 %) Active Directory 2 9 (3.782 %) VMware ESX 3 5 (2.101 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (1.261 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.420 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.420 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.420 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 12 (5.042 %) OpenView 1 12 (5.042 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 6 (2.521 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 3 (1.261 %) WSUS 3 3 (1.261 %) MOM 4 2 (0.840 %) ZENworks 4 2 (0.840 %) Unicenter 5 1 (0.420 %) Legato 5 1 (0.420 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.420 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.420 %) EMC NetWorker 5 1 (0.420 %) SCOM 5 1 (0.420 %) DameWare	Vendors 1 144 (60.50 %) Microsoft 2 40 (16.81 %) Cisco 3 39 (16.39 %) Dell 4 38 (15.97 %) Citrix 5 35 (14.71 %) HP 6 17 (7.143 %) McAfee Security 6 17 (7.143 %) VMware 7 12 (5.042 %) 3Com 8 8 (3.361 %) Symantec 9 7 (2.941 %) VERITAS 10 6 (2.521 %) NetApp 10 6 (2.521 %) Novell 10 6 (2.521 %) Oracle 11 5 (2.101 %) Lotus 12 4 (1.681 %) CheckPoint 12 4 (1.681 %) IBM 13 3 (1.261 %) Compaq 14 2 (0.840 %) EMC 14 2 (0.840 %) Intel 14 2 (0.840 %) Siebel