Hampshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Hampshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	96
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	31	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	9.568 %	4.533 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£358
Average daily rate	£347	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£21.60	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-8.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.70	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	324	375
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.416 %	0.421 %
Daily rates quoted	77	84
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£361
Average daily rate	£398	£387
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.82	£30.29
Average hourly rate	£20.28	£31.57
% change on same period last year	-35.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.75	£32.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Exchange Server 2003 South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Hampshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Basingstoke	+23	9	£404	-
2	Fareham	-	3	-	-
2	Southampton	+9	3	-	-
2	Portsmouth	-3	3	-	-
3	Winchester	-	1	-	-
3	Andover	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 71 (81.61 %) Windows 2 56 (64.37 %) Active Directory 3 45 (51.72 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 43 (49.43 %) MS Exchange 5 34 (39.08 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 31 (35.63 %) WINS 6 31 (35.63 %) DNS 7 30 (34.48 %) Microsoft 7 30 (34.48 %) MOM 8 18 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 9 17 (19.54 %) Windows NT 10 16 (18.39 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 15 (17.24 %) SMS 11 15 (17.24 %) Citrix 12 12 (13.79 %) Oracle

13 11 (12.64 %) Windows 2000 13 11 (12.64 %) Government 14 10 (11.49 %) Migration 14 10 (11.49 %) MSI 15 9 (10.34 %) Blackberry 15 9 (10.34 %) VMware 15 9 (10.34 %) Validation 15 9 (10.34 %) Military 16 8 (9.195 %) InstallShield 16 8 (9.195 %) Oracle 9i 16 8 (9.195 %) SharePoint 17 7 (8.046 %) Microsoft Certification 17 7 (8.046 %) NetBackup 17 7 (8.046 %) Backup Exec 18 6 (6.897 %) VMware ESX

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.149 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 45 (51.72 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 43 (49.43 %) MS Exchange 3 34 (39.08 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 16 (18.39 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 8 (9.195 %) SharePoint 6 2 (2.299 %) IIS 7 1 (1.149 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (6.897 %) MS Office 2 4 (4.598 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.299 %) MS Visio 3 2 (2.299 %) Acrobat 3 2 (2.299 %) Paint Shop Pro	Communications & Networking 1 31 (35.63 %) WINS 1 31 (35.63 %) DNS 2 15 (17.24 %) SMS 3 4 (4.598 %) SMTP 4 3 (3.448 %) DHCP 4 3 (3.448 %) SAN 4 3 (3.448 %) VPN 5 2 (2.299 %) LAN 5 2 (2.299 %) Firewall 5 2 (2.299 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (2.299 %) WAN 6 1 (1.149 %) Internet 6 1 (1.149 %) Wireless 6 1 (1.149 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (9.195 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (4.598 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 10 (11.49 %) MSI 2 8 (9.195 %) InstallShield 3 4 (4.598 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.149 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.149 %) PVCS
General 1 11 (12.64 %) Government 2 9 (10.34 %) Military 3 2 (2.299 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.149 %) Electronics 4 1 (1.149 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.149 %) Banking 4 1 (1.149 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 19 (21.84 %) Analyst 2 13 (14.94 %) Integration Engineer 3 10 (11.49 %) Test Engineer 4 6 (6.897 %) Test Analyst 4 6 (6.897 %) Support Analyst 5 5 (5.747 %) Systems Engineer 5 5 (5.747 %) Administrator 6 4 (4.598 %) 3rd Line Support 6 4 (4.598 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 4 (4.598 %) 2nd Line Support 6 4 (4.598 %) Consultant 6 4 (4.598 %) Citrix Support 7 3 (3.448 %) Exchange Engineer 7 3 (3.448 %) Exchange Consultant 7 3 (3.448 %) Systems Administrator 7 3 (3.448 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (3.448 %) Desktop Engineer 7 3 (3.448 %) IT Administrator 7 3 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Specialist 8 2 (2.299 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 9 (10.34 %) Blackberry 2 3 (3.448 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.299 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.149 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.149 %) Thin Client 4 1 (1.149 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 71 (81.61 %) Windows 2 18 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (19.54 %) Windows NT 4 11 (12.64 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (6.897 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.149 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (11.49 %) Migration 2 9 (10.34 %) Validation 3 4 (4.598 %) Software Testing 4 3 (3.448 %) Project Management 5 2 (2.299 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.149 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.149 %) ERP 6 1 (1.149 %) OOD 6 1 (1.149 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (5.747 %) VB 2 3 (3.448 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (8.046 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (6.897 %) MCSE 2 6 (6.897 %) ISEB 3 4 (4.598 %) CCA 3 4 (4.598 %) Citrix Certification 4 2 (2.299 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 1 (1.149 %) MCP 5 1 (1.149 %) CCEA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.149 %) SLA
System Software 1 56 (64.37 %) Active Directory 2 7 (8.046 %) NetBackup 2 7 (8.046 %) Backup Exec 3 6 (6.897 %) VMware ESX 4 4 (4.598 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (4.598 %) VMware Server 4 4 (4.598 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (2.299 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (1.149 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 30 (34.48 %) MOM 2 4 (4.598 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 3 (3.448 %) BMC PATROL 3 3 (3.448 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (1.149 %) OpenView 4 1 (1.149 %) OVSD 4 1 (1.149 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 30 (34.48 %) Microsoft 2 15 (17.24 %) Citrix 3 12 (13.79 %) Oracle 4 9 (10.34 %) VMware 5 3 (3.448 %) EMC 6 2 (2.299 %) Symantec 6 2 (2.299 %) Adobe 6 2 (2.299 %) Compuware 7 1 (1.149 %) HP 7 1 (1.149 %) SAP 7 1 (1.149 %) IBM 7 1 (1.149 %) NetApp 7 1 (1.149 %) VERITAS