The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 22 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 Essex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Rank 37 36 42
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 10 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.421% 2.663% 2.278%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.49% 17.74% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 0
Average daily rate £225 £265 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £259 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.00% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.87% +28.12%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
69 62 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 16.71% 15.01% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 36
Average daily rate £288 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.11% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +107.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £18.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.10 £32.09 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2003
East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Essex Exchange Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Exchange Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Colchester -2 2 £190 -60.00%
Witham - 1 £225 -
Exchange Server 2003
East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (68.42%) Windows
4 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
4 12 (63.16%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (52.63%) Backup Exec
6 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (47.37%) MCSE
6 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (42.11%) SAN
7 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
7 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (36.84%) VMware
9 6 (31.58%) HP
9 6 (31.58%) Cisco
9 6 (31.58%) SQL
10 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
10 5 (26.32%) Migration
10 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2008
10 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
11 4 (21.05%) iPhone
11 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
11 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
11 4 (21.05%) Forefront TMG
11 4 (21.05%) Performance Management
11 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
11 4 (21.05%) PACS
11 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (21.05%) MCITP

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 12 (63.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (21.05%) IIS
5 2 (10.53%) Lync
5 2 (10.53%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Office
2 2 (10.53%) Office 365
3 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) SAN
1 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
2 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) Unified Communications
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
5 1 (5.263%) SMTP
5 1 (5.263%) ISDN
5 1 (5.263%) Internet
5 1 (5.263%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.263%) MGCP
5 1 (5.263%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Law
3 1 (5.263%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Communications Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Server Support
5 1 (5.263%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.263%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) iPhone
1 4 (21.05%) PACS
1 4 (21.05%) Clustering
1 4 (21.05%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.79%) NHS
3 2 (10.53%) iPad
4 1 (5.263%) PKI
4 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.263%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Vista
6 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Migration
2 4 (21.05%) Performance Management
2 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) High Availability
3 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 4 (21.05%) VBScript
3 4 (21.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) MCSE
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (21.05%) MCITP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.263%) MCP
4 1 (5.263%) MCDST
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 4 (21.05%) Forefront TMG
2 4 (21.05%) ISA Server
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) DFS Replication
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Backup Exec
2 2 (10.53%) WSUS
2 2 (10.53%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) HP
3 6 (31.58%) Cisco
4 4 (21.05%) Symantec
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 4 (21.05%) ADIC
4 4 (21.05%) CommVault
4 4 (21.05%) Veritas
4 4 (21.05%) Compaq
4 4 (21.05%) Dell
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix
6 1 (5.263%) Clearswift
6 1 (5.263%) McAfee
Basildon, Essex
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