Essex Server Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Server Support role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Server Support in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	51
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	19	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.950 %	1.266 %
Daily rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum daily rate	£156	£160
Average daily rate	£156	£162
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£156	£164
UK excluding London average daily rate	£209	£254
% change on same period last year	-17.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.80	£26.37
% change on same period last year	-9.71 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Server Support East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Server Support across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Support across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Support across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Server Support within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Witham	+1	4	£160	+14.28 %
Chelmsford	+3	2	-	-
Thurrock	-	1	£300	-
Colchester	-	1	-	-

Server Support East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Server Support in their job title 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 with Server Support in their job title.

1 35 (97.22 %) Windows 2 28 (77.78 %) Windows NT 3 24 (66.67 %) DHCP 3 24 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 4 20 (55.56 %) Microsoft 5 19 (52.78 %) Active Directory 6 18 (50.00 %) WINS 7 17 (47.22 %) DNS 8 15 (41.67 %) MCSA 9 13 (36.11 %) MCSE 10 11 (30.56 %) Firewall 11 10 (27.78 %) MCP 11 10 (27.78 %) Linux 11 10 (27.78 %) Windows Server 2003 12 9 (25.00 %) MS Office

13 6 (16.67 %) Novell 14 5 (13.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 5 (13.89 %) Degree 15 4 (11.11 %) Citrix Certification 16 3 (8.333 %) Citrix 16 3 (8.333 %) CCA 16 3 (8.333 %) NetWare 16 3 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 3 (8.333 %) Legal 17 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 17 2 (5.556 %) IBM 17 2 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 17 2 (5.556 %) Windows 2000 17 2 (5.556 %) Cisco Certification 17 2 (5.556 %) Dell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Server Support in their job title 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 with Server Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.778 %) HTML 1 1 (2.778 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (5.556 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (2.778 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 24 (66.67 %) DHCP 2 18 (50.00 %) WINS 3 17 (47.22 %) DNS 4 11 (30.56 %) Firewall 5 2 (5.556 %) Internet 6 1 (2.778 %) SAN
General 1 3 (8.333 %) Legal 2 1 (2.778 %) Finance 2 1 (2.778 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 35 (97.22 %) Windows 2 28 (77.78 %) Windows NT 3 10 (27.78 %) Linux 3 10 (27.78 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (8.333 %) NetWare 5 2 (5.556 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 2 1 (2.778 %) Time Management 2 1 (2.778 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.778 %) C 1 1 (2.778 %) VB	Qualifications 1 24 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (41.67 %) MCSA 3 13 (36.11 %) MCSE 4 10 (27.78 %) MCP 5 5 (13.89 %) Degree 6 4 (11.11 %) Citrix Certification 7 3 (8.333 %) CCA 8 2 (5.556 %) Cisco Certification 8 2 (5.556 %) CCNA
System Software 1 19 (52.78 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.778 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (2.778 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (2.778 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (2.778 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (2.778 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 20 (55.56 %) Microsoft 2 6 (16.67 %) Novell 3 3 (8.333 %) Citrix 4 2 (5.556 %) Dell 4 2 (5.556 %) IBM 5 1 (2.778 %) VMware 5 1 (2.778 %) LANDesk 5 1 (2.778 %) NetApp