The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2007 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 2007 over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Rank 36 44 42
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 15 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.546% 1.342% 1.550%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.29% 7.407% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
Average daily rate £165 £278 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.54% +11.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £278 £210
% change year-on-year
+0.90% +32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £16.75 £15.25
% change year-on-year
+13.43% +9.83%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
82 81 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 19.39% 18.12% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 42
Average daily rate £250 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £250 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +118.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.39 £20.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.78 £37.72 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Exchange Server 2007
East of England

Exchange Server 2007
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Essex region.

Essex Exchange Server 2007 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
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 2007 within the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Colchester - 6 £165 -
Basildon -1 1 £200 -28.57% 1
Manningtree - - - -
Exchange Server 2007
East of England

Exchange Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 19 (95.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 13 (65.00%) Windows
5 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (45.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
7 7 (35.00%) ISA Server
7 7 (35.00%) SAN
7 7 (35.00%) ADIC
7 7 (35.00%) CommVault
7 7 (35.00%) Veritas
7 7 (35.00%) HP
7 7 (35.00%) Compaq
7 7 (35.00%) Dell
7 7 (35.00%) MCSE
7 7 (35.00%) SQL
7 7 (35.00%) Oracle
7 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (35.00%) Forefront TMG
7 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (35.00%) Clustering
7 7 (35.00%) Backup Exec
7 7 (35.00%) PACS
8 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (30.00%) Performance Management
8 6 (30.00%) VoIP
8 6 (30.00%) MS Office

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 14 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (45.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (15.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (10.00%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (10.00%) Lync
5 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Office
2 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (35.00%) SAN
2 6 (30.00%) VoIP
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.000%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Communications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Active Directory Specialist
5 1 (5.000%) Exchange Specialist
5 1 (5.000%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Clustering
1 7 (35.00%) PACS
2 5 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) Performance Management
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 1 (5.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) VBScript
2 6 (30.00%) VB
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (35.00%) MCSE
3 2 (10.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 19 (95.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (35.00%) ISA Server
2 7 (35.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (10.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) HP
2 7 (35.00%) Compaq
2 7 (35.00%) Dell
2 7 (35.00%) ADIC
2 7 (35.00%) CommVault
2 7 (35.00%) Veritas
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle
3 6 (30.00%) Citrix
4 3 (15.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Symantec
5 2 (10.00%) McAfee
Basildon, Essex
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Posted: 14 June 2013