The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2007 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2007 over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Rank - 61 62
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.182% 0.230%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 1.290% 2.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £413 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +58.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £270 £219
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +23.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £17.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+10.14% +11.29%
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
145 155 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.06% 14.09% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 62 52
Average daily rate £350 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £201 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.70 £11.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.30 £13.90 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Exchange Server 2007
Scotland

Exchange Server 2007
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Edinburgh Exchange Server 2007 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) CommVault
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Postini
1 4 (100.00%) SCOM
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL V2
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL V2
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) CommVault
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Postini