Edinburgh Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	57
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	15	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	16.85 %	7.353 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£220
Average daily rate	£324	£220
% change on same period last year	+47.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Application Platforms Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	89	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	13	16
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£305
Average daily rate	£322	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£35.69
Average hourly rate	£20.78	£36.14
% change on same period last year	-42.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.56	£36.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2003 Scotland

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 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Edinburgh region.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Edinburgh region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 19 (90.48 %) Windows 1 19 (90.48 %) MS Exchange 2 17 (80.95 %) Microsoft 3 13 (61.90 %) Active Directory 4 8 (38.10 %) Citrix 5 7 (33.33 %) Novell 5 7 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 7 (33.33 %) Back Office 5 7 (33.33 %) VMware 6 6 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 6 6 (28.57 %) DNS 6 6 (28.57 %) MS Excel 6 6 (28.57 %) DHCP 7 5 (23.81 %) MS Office

7 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 7 5 (23.81 %) MIMEsweeper 8 4 (19.05 %) NetApp 8 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (19.05 %) Internet 8 4 (19.05 %) MOM 9 3 (14.29 %) VERITAS 9 3 (14.29 %) McAfee Security 9 3 (14.29 %) SAN 9 3 (14.29 %) OpenView 9 3 (14.29 %) HP 9 3 (14.29 %) VBScript 9 3 (14.29 %) VB 9 3 (14.29 %) MCSE 9 3 (14.29 %) Windows XP

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 19 (90.48 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (4.762 %) IIS	Applications 1 6 (28.57 %) MS Excel 2 5 (23.81 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (28.57 %) DHCP 1 6 (28.57 %) DNS 2 4 (19.05 %) Internet 3 3 (14.29 %) SAN 4 2 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (4.762 %) LAN 5 1 (4.762 %) WAN	General 1 7 (33.33 %) Back Office 2 3 (14.29 %) Telecoms 3 2 (9.524 %) Government 4 1 (4.762 %) Retail 4 1 (4.762 %) Local Government 4 1 (4.762 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (19.05 %) Analyst 2 3 (14.29 %) Systems Analyst 2 3 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (9.524 %) Administrator 3 2 (9.524 %) Senior Analyst 3 2 (9.524 %) Consultant 3 2 (9.524 %) Senior Systems Analyst 3 2 (9.524 %) Support Technician 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Rollout Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Administrator 4 1 (4.762 %) Server Support Technician 4 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Messaging Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (4.762 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 19 (90.48 %) Windows 2 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 1 (4.762 %) NetWare 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 3 (14.29 %) VBScript 1 3 (14.29 %) VB 2 1 (4.762 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (14.29 %) MCSE
System Software 1 13 (61.90 %) Active Directory 2 3 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.762 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 7 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (23.81 %) MIMEsweeper 3 4 (19.05 %) MOM 4 3 (14.29 %) OpenView 5 1 (4.762 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 17 (80.95 %) Microsoft 2 8 (38.10 %) Citrix 3 7 (33.33 %) Novell 3 7 (33.33 %) VMware 4 4 (19.05 %) NetApp 5 3 (14.29 %) HP 5 3 (14.29 %) VERITAS 5 3 (14.29 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (9.524 %) Apple 7 1 (4.762 %) Symantec 7 1 (4.762 %) Sophos