Hertfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Hertfordshire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	90
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	4	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.162 %	2.888 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£225
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£278
% change on same period last year	+13.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.67	£9.00
Average hourly rate	£18.67	£10.63
% change on same period last year	+75.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.67	£12.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.20	£22.23
% change on same period last year	+4.34 %
Application Platforms Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	185	277
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.247 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	73	102
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£315
Average daily rate	£374	£331
% change on same period last year	+13.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.96
Average hourly rate	£25.46	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£25.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
Exchange Server 2003 East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hitchin	-	1	-	-
Stevenage	+5	1	-	-
Watford	+10	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 13 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (84.62 %) Windows 3 9 (69.23 %) Active Directory 4 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 5 4 (30.77 %) HP 5 4 (30.77 %) MS Office 5 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification 5 4 (30.77 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 6 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 6 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 6 3 (23.08 %) WSUS 6 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (15.38 %) Windows Vista

7 2 (15.38 %) Blackberry 7 2 (15.38 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (15.38 %) SLA 8 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (7.692 %) SAN 8 1 (7.692 %) VERITAS 8 1 (7.692 %) DMZ 8 1 (7.692 %) Back Office 8 1 (7.692 %) Workflow 8 1 (7.692 %) Finance 8 1 (7.692 %) VMware 8 1 (7.692 %) NetBackup 8 1 (7.692 %) DNS 8 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 13 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (15.38 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (7.692 %) Office Project Server	Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) MS Office 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (7.692 %) DNS 2 1 (7.692 %) SAN 2 1 (7.692 %) DMZ 2 1 (7.692 %) LAN 2 1 (7.692 %) WAN 2 1 (7.692 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (7.692 %) Back Office 1 1 (7.692 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) Desktop Support 1 4 (30.77 %) Desktop Engineer 2 3 (23.08 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (23.08 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (23.08 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Technical Support Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Consultant 3 1 (7.692 %) Server Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Technical Support 3 1 (7.692 %) 1st Line Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Server Support Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Senior Server Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Wintel Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (15.38 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 11 (84.62 %) Windows 2 4 (30.77 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (15.38 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) ITIL 2 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (7.692 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 3 1 (7.692 %) MCP 3 1 (7.692 %) HP APS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (15.38 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (69.23 %) Active Directory 2 1 (7.692 %) NetBackup 2 1 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (23.08 %) WSUS 2 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Microsoft 2 4 (30.77 %) HP 3 1 (7.692 %) Dell 3 1 (7.692 %) Intel 3 1 (7.692 %) VERITAS 3 1 (7.692 %) VMware