Gloucestershire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	48
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	17	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	26.98 %	9.756 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£233
Average daily rate	£310	£308
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Application Platforms Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	63	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	20	11
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£304
Average daily rate	£334	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.17	£13.29
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£13.71
% change on same period last year	+82.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£14.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2003 South West

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.

Exchange Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Cheltenham	+9	9	£275	-
Gloucester	+1	1	£450	+45.94 %

Exchange Server 2003 South West

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (83.33 %) MS Exchange 1 15 (83.33 %) Microsoft 1 15 (83.33 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (72.22 %) Windows 3 11 (61.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 10 (55.56 %) PKI 4 10 (55.56 %) Solaris 4 10 (55.56 %) SQL Server 4 10 (55.56 %) ITIL 4 10 (55.56 %) UNIX 5 9 (50.00 %) HNC 5 9 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (50.00 %) Service Management 6 8 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2000 7 7 (38.89 %) Electric

7 7 (38.89 %) DV Cleared 7 7 (38.89 %) Windows Vista 7 7 (38.89 %) Problem Management 8 6 (33.33 %) Degree 9 5 (27.78 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 5 (27.78 %) MS Excel 10 4 (22.22 %) Government 11 2 (11.11 %) SMTP 11 2 (11.11 %) X.400 11 2 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 11 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory 12 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 12 1 (5.556 %) MetaFrame 12 1 (5.556 %) Altiris 12 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (83.33 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (61.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 5 (27.78 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 5 (27.78 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.11 %) SMTP 1 2 (11.11 %) X.400	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (55.56 %) SQL Server 2 8 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 7 (38.89 %) Electric 2 4 (22.22 %) Government	Job Titles 1 9 (50.00 %) UNIX Support 2 7 (38.89 %) Technical Support 3 4 (22.22 %) Support Specialist 3 4 (22.22 %) UNIX Specialist 4 3 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 4 3 (16.67 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 3 (16.67 %) Systems Support 4 3 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 3 (16.67 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (11.11 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (11.11 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 5 2 (11.11 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 1 (5.556 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (5.556 %) Messaging Specialist 6 1 (5.556 %) Citrix Engineer 6 1 (5.556 %) UNIX Consultant 6 1 (5.556 %) Management Consultant 6 1 (5.556 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 10 (55.56 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 13 (72.22 %) Windows 2 10 (55.56 %) Solaris 2 10 (55.56 %) UNIX 3 9 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (38.89 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (83.33 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (55.56 %) ITIL 3 9 (50.00 %) Service Management 4 7 (38.89 %) Problem Management 4 7 (38.89 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared	Qualifications 1 9 (50.00 %) HNC 2 6 (33.33 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (11.11 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.556 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 15 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 2 1 (5.556 %) Altiris