Hampshire Exchange Server 5.5 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Exchange Server 5.5 over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
Location Aberdeen Ayr Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey City of London Cornwall East Midlands East of England Ely England Fareham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Kent Leatherhead London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Torpoint UK Wales West Midlands Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	115
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	1.208 %	3.284 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£358
Average daily rate	-	£358
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£253
% change on same period last year	+15.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.14	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£19.62	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-43.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.11	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.47	£21.82
% change on same period last year	+7.54 %
Application Platforms Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	331	335
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.436 %	0.355 %
Daily rates quoted	64	62
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£333
Average daily rate	£385	£357
% change on same period last year	+7.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£28.97
Average hourly rate	£25.27	£30.09
% change on same period last year	-16.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.20	£31.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£24.27
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 5.5
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the Hampshire region.

Exchange Server 5.5
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the Hampshire region.

Exchange Server 5.5
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 5.5 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

Exchange Server 5.5
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Exchange Server 5.5 within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Fareham	-	3	-	-
Southampton	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 5.5 South East

Exchange Server 5.5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5.

1 30 (75.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 25 (62.50 %) Windows 3 20 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 19 (47.50 %) Active Directory 5 18 (45.00 %) MOM 5 18 (45.00 %) Security Cleared 6 16 (40.00 %) WINS 6 16 (40.00 %) DNS 7 13 (32.50 %) Migration 8 12 (30.00 %) SC Cleared 8 12 (30.00 %) Windows NT 9 9 (22.50 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (22.50 %) Validation 9 9 (22.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 7 (17.50 %) SMS

10 7 (17.50 %) Microsoft 11 6 (15.00 %) Data Migration 12 5 (12.50 %) Military 12 5 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 12 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 12 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 12 5 (12.50 %) Government 12 5 (12.50 %) MSI 12 5 (12.50 %) InstallShield 13 4 (10.00 %) SMTP 14 3 (7.500 %) VPN 14 3 (7.500 %) LAN 14 3 (7.500 %) ISEB 14 3 (7.500 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 3 (7.500 %) Blackberry

Exchange Server 5.5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Exchange Server 5.5 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 5.5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 30 (75.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 20 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 9 (22.50 %) MS Exchange 3 9 (22.50 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 16 (40.00 %) WINS 1 16 (40.00 %) DNS 2 7 (17.50 %) SMS 3 4 (10.00 %) SMTP 4 3 (7.500 %) VPN 4 3 (7.500 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 5 (12.50 %) MSI 1 5 (12.50 %) InstallShield 2 1 (2.500 %) PVCS 2 1 (2.500 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.500 %) TestDirector	General 1 5 (12.50 %) Government 1 5 (12.50 %) Military 2 1 (2.500 %) Banking 2 1 (2.500 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (22.50 %) Test Engineer 2 5 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 4 (10.00 %) Test Analyst 3 4 (10.00 %) Consultant 3 4 (10.00 %) Integration Engineer 4 3 (7.500 %) Administrator 4 3 (7.500 %) Systems Administrator 4 3 (7.500 %) Exchange Consultant 5 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (5.000 %) Migration Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Server Engineer 5 2 (5.000 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 1 (2.500 %) Active Directory Specialist 6 1 (2.500 %) Exchange Specialist 6 1 (2.500 %) Data Administrator 6 1 (2.500 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (2.500 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (2.500 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.500 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 25 (62.50 %) Windows 2 12 (30.00 %) Windows NT 3 5 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (5.000 %) Windows XP 4 2 (5.000 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (45.00 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (32.50 %) Migration 3 12 (30.00 %) SC Cleared 4 9 (22.50 %) Validation 5 6 (15.00 %) Data Migration 6 1 (2.500 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.500 %) Software Testing
Qualifications 1 3 (7.500 %) ISEB	System Software 1 19 (47.50 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.000 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 18 (45.00 %) MOM 2 3 (7.500 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (17.50 %) Microsoft 2 5 (12.50 %) Oracle