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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Hampshire region.

 Microsoft Exchange Server
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank564641
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Down-5
Matching contract IT job ads192779
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire1.635 %1.941 %2.769 %
As % of the Application Platforms category11.88 %17.20 %21.29 %
Daily rates quoted2523
Average daily rate£338£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.500 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£242£333£353
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£434£470£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£284£300
% change year-on-year
+5.720 %-5.410 %
Hourly rates quoted10822
Average hourly rate£14.25£22.00£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.22 %+7.310 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£20.53£14.05
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.60£34.75£31.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.50£19.75£19.00
% change year-on-year
-26.58 %+3.940 %
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
160157371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire13.77 %11.29 %13.00 %
Daily rates quoted5337102
Average daily rate£325£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.140 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£218£275£313
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£488£468£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£375
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted192162
Average hourly rate£12.50£23.50£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.80 %+14.63 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.47£20.00£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£35.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %
MS Exchange South EastMS Exchange
South East

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

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

Hampshire MS Exchange Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Hampshire MS Exchange Daily Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Hampshire MS Exchange Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
FarnboroughNew entry-4--
PortsmouthUp+21--
BasingstokeUp+11£218-
MS Exchange South EastMS Exchange
South East

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

128 (73.68 %)Windows
227 (71.05 %)Active Directory
323 (60.53 %)Exchange Server 2003
421 (55.26 %)Windows Server 2003
518 (47.37 %)Microsoft
613 (34.21 %)Exchange Server 2007
712 (31.58 %)Security Cleared
712 (31.58 %)Windows Server 2008
712 (31.58 %)VMware
712 (31.58 %)Windows XP
811 (28.95 %)MS Excel
811 (28.95 %)SQL Server
910 (26.32 %)VMware ESX
109 (23.68 %)SC Cleared
109 (23.68 %)SQL
109 (23.68 %)Citrix
118 (21.05 %)T-SQL
118 (21.05 %)C#
118 (21.05 %).NET
118 (21.05 %)Visual Studio
118 (21.05 %)VMware Infrastructure
118 (21.05 %)SQL Server 2008
118 (21.05 %)SQL Server Integration Services
127 (18.42 %)SQL Server 2005
127 (18.42 %)MS Office
127 (18.42 %)XML
127 (18.42 %)XSD
127 (18.42 %)XSLT
127 (18.42 %)VB.NET
127 (18.42 %)MIIS

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (21.05 %).NET
27 (18.42 %)XML
27 (18.42 %)XSD
27 (18.42 %)XSLT
33 (7.895 %)JSP
42 (5.263 %)Middleware
51 (2.632 %).NET Framework
51 (2.632 %)Web Services
51 (2.632 %)HTML
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
123 (60.53 %)Exchange Server 2003
213 (34.21 %)Exchange Server 2007
33 (7.895 %)SharePoint
41 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2000
41 (2.632 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
111 (28.95 %)MS Excel
27 (18.42 %)MS Office
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (15.79 %)LDAP
16 (15.79 %)LAN
25 (13.16 %)X.500
34 (10.53 %)Firewall
43 (7.895 %)SAN
43 (7.895 %)TCP/IP
52 (5.263 %)DNS
52 (5.263 %)WAN
52 (5.263 %)Wireless
61 (2.632 %)BIG-IP
61 (2.632 %)S/MIME
61 (2.632 %)X.400
61 (2.632 %)VoIP
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (28.95 %)SQL Server
28 (21.05 %)SQL Server 2008
28 (21.05 %)SQL Server Integration Services
37 (18.42 %)SQL Server 2005
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (21.05 %)Visual Studio
21 (2.632 %)TestDirector
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (15.79 %)Government
22 (5.263 %)Construction
31 (2.632 %)Education
31 (2.632 %)Military
31 (2.632 %)Local Government
31 (2.632 %)Auditing
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (15.79 %)Analyst
25 (13.16 %)Technical Project Manager
25 (13.16 %)Helpdesk Analyst
25 (13.16 %)3rd Line Support
25 (13.16 %)Service Analyst
25 (13.16 %)Service Desk Analyst
25 (13.16 %)Technical Manager
25 (13.16 %)Build Engineer
25 (13.16 %)Senior Build Engineer
25 (13.16 %)Project Manager
33 (7.895 %)Developer
33 (7.895 %)Architect
42 (5.263 %)Network Manager
42 (5.263 %)Network Project Manager
42 (5.263 %)Designer
42 (5.263 %)Network Technician
42 (5.263 %).NET Developer
42 (5.263 %)C# Developer
42 (5.263 %)Network Architect
42 (5.263 %).NET Designer
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (13.16 %)PKI
24 (10.53 %)Clustering
33 (7.895 %)Blackberry
33 (7.895 %)NHS
41 (2.632 %)Management Information System
41 (2.632 %)Replication
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
128 (73.68 %)Windows
221 (55.26 %)Windows Server 2003
312 (31.58 %)Windows Server 2008
312 (31.58 %)Windows XP
46 (15.79 %)Windows 2000
53 (7.895 %)Solaris
53 (7.895 %)Linux
62 (5.263 %)Red Hat Linux
71 (2.632 %)UNIX
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (13.16 %)Project Management
23 (7.895 %)Identity Management
23 (7.895 %)Migration
23 (7.895 %)SysML
23 (7.895 %)ITIL
23 (7.895 %)UML
32 (5.263 %)PRINCE2
32 (5.263 %)Stakeholder Management
41 (2.632 %)Disaster Recovery
41 (2.632 %)Incident Management
41 (2.632 %)Performance Management
41 (2.632 %)Load Balancing
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
19 (23.68 %)SQL
28 (21.05 %)T-SQL
28 (21.05 %)C#
37 (18.42 %)VB.NET
45 (13.16 %)PowerShell
45 (13.16 %)VBScript
51 (2.632 %)VB
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (31.58 %)Security Cleared
29 (23.68 %)SC Cleared
32 (5.263 %)MCSE
32 (5.263 %)Microsoft Certification
41 (2.632 %)DV Cleared
41 (2.632 %)MCP
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.632 %)QA
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
127 (71.05 %)Active Directory
210 (26.32 %)VMware ESX
38 (21.05 %)VMware Infrastructure
44 (10.53 %)MetaFrame
53 (7.895 %)Oracle RAC
53 (7.895 %)ISA Server
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
17 (18.42 %)MIIS
25 (13.16 %)Backup Exec
34 (10.53 %)Norton AntiVirus
43 (7.895 %)SCOM
43 (7.895 %)MOM
52 (5.263 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
61 (2.632 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
61 (2.632 %)OpenView Configuration Management
61 (2.632 %)MSI
Hampshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
118 (47.37 %)Microsoft
212 (31.58 %)VMware
39 (23.68 %)Citrix
45 (13.16 %)Cisco
54 (10.53 %)Symantec
63 (7.895 %)HP
63 (7.895 %)Sun
63 (7.895 %)McAfee
63 (7.895 %)Oracle
72 (5.263 %)Red Hat