Glasgow MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	35
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	25	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	19.38 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£155	£200
Average daily rate	£171	£200
% change on same period last year	-14.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£188	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.30	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£12.82	£17.25
% change on same period last year	-25.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.33	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	175	160
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.225 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	35	29
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£288
Average daily rate	£344	£306
% change on same period last year	+12.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£17.16
Average hourly rate	£13.91	£18.69
% change on same period last year	-25.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.48	£20.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange Scotland

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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Glasgow region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Glasgow region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 41 (73.21 %) Active Directory 2 29 (51.79 %) Windows 3 28 (50.00 %) MS Office 3 28 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 17 (30.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 15 (26.79 %) ITIL 6 14 (25.00 %) Cisco 7 12 (21.43 %) Service Management 8 11 (19.64 %) VMware 8 11 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 11 (19.64 %) Microsoft Certification 9 10 (17.86 %) Windows XP 9 10 (17.86 %) MS Excel 10 9 (16.07 %) SAN 11 8 (14.29 %) Finance

11 8 (14.29 %) Citrix 11 8 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 12 7 (12.50 %) SQL 12 7 (12.50 %) LAN 12 7 (12.50 %) MCSE 12 7 (12.50 %) Change Management 13 6 (10.71 %) WAN 13 6 (10.71 %) VMware ESX 13 6 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 4 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 5.5 14 4 (7.143 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 4 (7.143 %) Windows NT 14 4 (7.143 %) Blackberry 14 4 (7.143 %) Intranet 15 3 (5.357 %) Windows Server 2003

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.786 %) .NET 1 1 (1.786 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (1.786 %) SOAP 1 1 (1.786 %) WebServices 1 1 (1.786 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 17 (30.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 11 (19.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 6 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (5.357 %) IIS 6 1 (1.786 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 28 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 10 (17.86 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.07 %) SAN 2 7 (12.50 %) LAN 3 6 (10.71 %) WAN 4 4 (7.143 %) Intranet 5 2 (3.571 %) VPN 6 1 (1.786 %) WINS 6 1 (1.786 %) DNS 6 1 (1.786 %) Firewall 6 1 (1.786 %) DHCP 6 1 (1.786 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.786 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server
General 1 8 (14.29 %) Finance 2 2 (3.571 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (1.786 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.786 %) Government 3 1 (1.786 %) Police 3 1 (1.786 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 31 (55.36 %) Analyst 2 17 (30.36 %) Support Analyst 3 13 (23.21 %) Service Analyst 4 9 (16.07 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 7 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 6 4 (7.143 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 4 (7.143 %) Desktop Analyst 6 4 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 7 3 (5.357 %) Server Engineer 7 3 (5.357 %) 2nd Line Support 8 2 (3.571 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.571 %) Support Technician 8 2 (3.571 %) Consultant 8 2 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 2 (3.571 %) 1st Line Support 8 2 (3.571 %) Support Engineer 8 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Engineer 9 1 (1.786 %) Infrastructure Consultant 9 1 (1.786 %) Server Support Technician 9 1 (1.786 %) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.143 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.786 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 29 (51.79 %) Windows 2 10 (17.86 %) Windows XP 3 8 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (7.143 %) Windows NT 5 3 (5.357 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (3.571 %) NetWare 7 1 (1.786 %) Mac OS X 7 1 (1.786 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (26.79 %) ITIL 2 12 (21.43 %) Service Management 3 7 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.786 %) Process Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.786 %) ITSM 5 1 (1.786 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 7 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 11 (19.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 4 (7.143 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 3 (5.357 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (3.571 %) MCP 6 1 (1.786 %) MCDST 6 1 (1.786 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) SLA
System Software 1 41 (73.21 %) Active Directory 2 6 (10.71 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (5.357 %) NetBackup 3 3 (5.357 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.786 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 28 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 14 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 11 (19.64 %) VMware 4 8 (14.29 %) Citrix 5 3 (5.357 %) Remedy 5 3 (5.357 %) VERITAS 6 2 (3.571 %) Reuters 6 2 (3.571 %) Bloomberg 6 2 (3.571 %) HP 6 2 (3.571 %) Dell 7 1 (1.786 %) Intel 7 1 (1.786 %) Novell 7 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.786 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.786 %) Altiris