East Sussex MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the East Sussex 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Ayr Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	30
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	3	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	27.27 %	27.59 %
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	£301	£301
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£20.70
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£21.70
% change on same period last year	-14.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.13	£19.53
% change on same period last year	+8.20 %
Application Platforms East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	11	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.029 %
Daily rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£298
Average daily rate	£320	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£19.73
Average hourly rate	£20.31	£20.81
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.63	£21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
MS Exchange South East

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the East Sussex 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the East Sussex region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the East Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hove	-	3	-	-
Brighton	+1	1	-	-

MS Exchange South East

MS Exchange
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 9 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (88.89 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (66.67 %) Active Directory 4 5 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 4 (44.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 6 3 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (33.33 %) Windows XP 7 2 (22.22 %) WAN 7 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 7 2 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (22.22 %) VPN 7 2 (22.22 %) Juniper 7 2 (22.22 %) SAN

7 2 (22.22 %) MS Office 7 2 (22.22 %) Cisco 7 2 (22.22 %) Insurance 7 2 (22.22 %) Firewall 8 1 (11.11 %) Law 8 1 (11.11 %) Migration 8 1 (11.11 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (11.11 %) HP 8 1 (11.11 %) Citrix 8 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server 8 1 (11.11 %) DNS 8 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 8 1 (11.11 %) Linux

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (22.22 %) WAN 1 2 (22.22 %) DHCP 1 2 (22.22 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (22.22 %) VPN 1 2 (22.22 %) SAN 1 2 (22.22 %) Firewall 2 1 (11.11 %) DNS	General 1 2 (22.22 %) Insurance 2 1 (11.11 %) Law
Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Analyst 2 3 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 2 (22.22 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 2 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (11.11 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 4 1 (11.11 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (11.11 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Rollout Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Helpdesk Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 9 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (88.89 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (44.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (33.33 %) Windows XP 5 1 (11.11 %) Linux 5 1 (11.11 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (11.11 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (11.11 %) MCSE
System Software 1 6 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (11.11 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (22.22 %) Cisco 2 2 (22.22 %) Juniper 3 1 (11.11 %) HP 3 1 (11.11 %) Citrix