Kent Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Kent 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	32	33
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	13	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	22.03 %	13.77 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£300
Average daily rate	£175	£313
% change on same period last year	-44.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.32	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£16.32	£18.25
% change on same period last year	-10.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.32	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	59	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.155 %
Daily rates quoted	9	27
Average minimum daily rate	£251	£320
Average daily rate	£264	£330
% change on same period last year	-19.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.63	£19.18
Average hourly rate	£16.51	£20.22
% change on same period last year	-18.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.40	£21.26
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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 Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent 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	Maidstone	-	6	-	-
2	Sevenoaks	0	2	£175	-
3	Tonbridge	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent 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 24 (77.42 %) Windows 1 24 (77.42 %) Active Directory 2 21 (67.74 %) MS Exchange 3 18 (58.06 %) Windows NT 3 18 (58.06 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 16 (51.61 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 15 (48.39 %) Microsoft 6 11 (35.48 %) MS Office 7 10 (32.26 %) MS Excel 8 8 (25.81 %) Citrix 8 8 (25.81 %) Service Delivery 9 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 9 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 10 4 (12.90 %) Windows 2000 10 4 (12.90 %) Cisco

10 4 (12.90 %) Migration 10 4 (12.90 %) Health 11 3 (9.677 %) NetBackup 11 3 (9.677 %) Finance 11 3 (9.677 %) VPN 11 3 (9.677 %) SQL 11 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 12 2 (6.452 %) Windows XP 12 2 (6.452 %) WAN 12 2 (6.452 %) DHCP 12 2 (6.452 %) WINS 12 2 (6.452 %) DNS 12 2 (6.452 %) CA 12 2 (6.452 %) Blackberry 12 2 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 21 (67.74 %) MS Exchange 2 18 (58.06 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 16 (51.61 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (3.226 %) IIS 4 1 (3.226 %) GroupWise 4 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 11 (35.48 %) MS Office 2 10 (32.26 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.226 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 5 (16.13 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (9.677 %) VPN 3 2 (6.452 %) WINS 3 2 (6.452 %) DNS 3 2 (6.452 %) WAN 3 2 (6.452 %) DHCP 4 1 (3.226 %) LAN 4 1 (3.226 %) SSL 4 1 (3.226 %) SAN 4 1 (3.226 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 4 (12.90 %) Health 2 3 (9.677 %) Finance 3 2 (6.452 %) Construction 3 2 (6.452 %) Government 3 2 (6.452 %) Banking 3 2 (6.452 %) Local Government 4 1 (3.226 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 7 (22.58 %) 2nd Line Support 2 5 (16.13 %) Analyst 2 5 (16.13 %) Support Analyst 2 5 (16.13 %) Technical Support 2 5 (16.13 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (9.677 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Server Support 4 2 (6.452 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 2 (6.452 %) Technical Analyst 4 2 (6.452 %) IT Support Analyst 4 2 (6.452 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Windows Server Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) IT Services Manager 5 1 (3.226 %) Citrix Support 5 1 (3.226 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (3.226 %) Senior Technical Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) Desktop Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) Helpdesk Administrator 5 1 (3.226 %) Senior Technical Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.452 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.226 %) PDA 2 1 (3.226 %) Informatics 2 1 (3.226 %) Fat Client 2 1 (3.226 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 24 (77.42 %) Windows 2 18 (58.06 %) Windows NT 3 4 (12.90 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (6.452 %) Windows XP 4 2 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (3.226 %) NetWare 5 1 (3.226 %) Unix 5 1 (3.226 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.81 %) Service Delivery 2 4 (12.90 %) Migration 3 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 4 2 (6.452 %) Investment Management 5 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.677 %) SQL
System Software 1 24 (77.42 %) Active Directory 2 3 (9.677 %) NetBackup 3 2 (6.452 %) VMware GSX 3 2 (6.452 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.226 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (3.226 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (3.226 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (3.226 %) Novell eDirectory 4 1 (3.226 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (6.452 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 15 (48.39 %) Microsoft 2 8 (25.81 %) Citrix 3 4 (12.90 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.452 %) CA 4 2 (6.452 %) VMware 4 2 (6.452 %) PlateSpin 5 1 (3.226 %) Symantec 5 1 (3.226 %) IBM 5 1 (3.226 %) HP 5 1 (3.226 %) Compaq 5 1 (3.226 %) Dell