The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Hertfordshire region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Rank 56 64 54
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 7 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.099% 0.618% 1.133%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.071% 5.405% 7.576%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £180 £350 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% +84.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £259 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.00% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -48.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.87% +28.12%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
99 111 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.54% 11.43% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 65
Average daily rate £325 £400 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £192 £222 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.50 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -50.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.38 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.30 £25.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2003
East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Hertfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Watford +10 2 - -
Stevenage - 2 £180 -
Exchange Server 2003
East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
3 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (66.67%) VMware
4 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (58.33%) Citrix
6 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (50.00%) vSphere
6 6 (50.00%) Symantec
7 5 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (41.67%) Norton AntiVirus
7 5 (41.67%) Sophos
7 5 (41.67%) DHCP
7 5 (41.67%) DNS
7 5 (41.67%) SQL
7 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (33.33%) MS Office
9 3 (25.00%) IBM
9 3 (25.00%) IIS
9 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
9 3 (25.00%) Blackberry
9 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
9 3 (25.00%) VMware ESX
9 3 (25.00%) Clustering
9 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (25.00%) Firewall
9 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 12 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (25.00%) IIS
5 1 (8.333%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.333%) SAN
4 1 (8.333%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) IT Support
3 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
5 2 (16.67%) Windows 8
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Vista
5 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) Terminal Services
5 1 (8.333%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
2 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Symantec
4 5 (41.67%) Sophos
5 3 (25.00%) IBM
5 3 (25.00%) Acronis
6 2 (16.67%) McAfee
6 2 (16.67%) Veeam
6 2 (16.67%) Apple
7 1 (8.333%) Veritas
7 1 (8.333%) Cisco
7 1 (8.333%) IronPort