The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 27 22 40
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +18
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 19 27 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 4.786% 6.618% 2.481%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.76% 44.26% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 1
Average daily rate £233 £228 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.19% -47.39%
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+10.09% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
Average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +45.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- +9.37%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
71 61 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.88% 14.95% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 37
Average daily rate £288 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £162 £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 9 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 £32.02 £32.09 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MS Exchange
East of England

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Essex MS Exchange Daily Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Essex region over the 3 months to 23 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 +3 6 £258 -45.78%
Witham +2 4 £225 +109.30%
MS Exchange
East of England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 35 (81.40%) Active Directory
2 23 (53.49%) Windows
3 19 (44.19%) Exchange Server 2003
3 19 (44.19%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (41.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (34.88%) Exchange Server 2007
5 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (32.56%) SLA
7 13 (30.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
8 12 (27.91%) SCCM
8 12 (27.91%) VMware
9 11 (25.58%) ITIL
10 10 (23.26%) HP
10 10 (23.26%) SAN
10 10 (23.26%) Migration
10 10 (23.26%) Backup Exec
11 9 (20.93%) Blackberry
11 9 (20.93%) MCSE
12 8 (18.60%) Cisco
12 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
12 8 (18.60%) Windows 7
13 7 (16.28%) McAfee
14 6 (13.95%) WAN
14 6 (13.95%) MS Excel
14 6 (13.95%) Windows XP
14 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
14 6 (13.95%) SQL
14 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
14 6 (13.95%) Finance

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 19 (44.19%) Exchange Server 2003
1 19 (44.19%) Exchange Server 2010
2 15 (34.88%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (9.302%) IIS
4 3 (6.977%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (4.651%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.651%) Lync
5 2 (4.651%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) MS Excel
2 4 (9.302%) MS Office
3 2 (4.651%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) SAN
2 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (13.95%) WAN
4 4 (9.302%) VPN
4 4 (9.302%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.651%) DNS
5 2 (4.651%) LAN
5 2 (4.651%) DHCP
5 2 (4.651%) LDAP
5 2 (4.651%) Unified Communications
5 2 (4.651%) Firewall
6 1 (2.326%) ISDN
6 1 (2.326%) SMTP
6 1 (2.326%) Internet
6 1 (2.326%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.326%) MGCP
6 1 (2.326%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (9.302%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (9.302%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 6 (13.95%) Finance
2 2 (4.651%) Law
3 1 (2.326%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
2 5 (11.63%) Service Desk Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
3 4 (9.302%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (9.302%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (9.302%) Consultant
4 3 (6.977%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (6.977%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Server Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (6.977%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.977%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.651%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (4.651%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (4.651%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.651%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.651%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Blackberry
2 4 (9.302%) NHS
2 4 (9.302%) iPhone
2 4 (9.302%) PACS
2 4 (9.302%) Clustering
3 3 (6.977%) PKI
4 2 (4.651%) iPad
5 1 (2.326%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.326%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Windows
2 18 (41.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (18.60%) Windows 7
5 6 (13.95%) Windows XP
6 3 (6.977%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) ITIL
2 10 (23.26%) Migration
3 4 (9.302%) Performance Management
3 4 (9.302%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (4.651%) Project Management
4 2 (4.651%) High Availability
4 2 (4.651%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (4.651%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (4.651%) Data Management
5 1 (2.326%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.326%) PRINCE
5 1 (2.326%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.302%) VBScript
3 4 (9.302%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (20.93%) MCSE
3 5 (11.63%) MCDST
3 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) MCP
4 4 (9.302%) MCITP
5 2 (4.651%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.326%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (81.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (9.302%) ISA Server
4 4 (9.302%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (6.977%) DFS Replication
6 2 (4.651%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) SCCM
2 10 (23.26%) Backup Exec
3 4 (9.302%) OpenView
3 4 (9.302%) OVSD
4 2 (4.651%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (4.651%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (4.651%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.91%) VMware
3 10 (23.26%) HP
4 8 (18.60%) Cisco
5 7 (16.28%) McAfee
6 4 (9.302%) Symantec
6 4 (9.302%) ADIC
6 4 (9.302%) CommVault
6 4 (9.302%) Veritas
6 4 (9.302%) Oracle
6 4 (9.302%) Compaq
6 4 (9.302%) Dell
6 4 (9.302%) Citrix
7 2 (4.651%) NetApp
7 2 (4.651%) Juniper
8 1 (2.326%) Clearswift