Kent MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	17
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	24	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	41.38 %	27.86 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£138	£100
Average daily rate	£150	£100
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£163	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.49	£15.67
Average hourly rate	£16.14	£17.08
% change on same period last year	-5.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.79	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	58	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	10	28
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£322
Average daily rate	£265	£332
% change on same period last year	-20.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
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	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

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

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Kent region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Kent region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange 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	+1	4	£175	-
3	Canterbury	-	2	-	-
4	Tonbridge	+2	1	-	-
4	Snodland	-	1	-	-

MS Exchange South East

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 33 (76.74 %) Windows 2 30 (69.77 %) Active Directory 3 22 (51.16 %) Microsoft 4 21 (48.84 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 20 (46.51 %) Windows NT 6 18 (41.86 %) MS Office 7 17 (39.53 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 17 (39.53 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 15 (34.88 %) MS Excel 9 10 (23.26 %) Migration 10 9 (20.93 %) Health 10 9 (20.93 %) Citrix 11 8 (18.60 %) Service Delivery 12 7 (16.28 %) Windows XP 12 7 (16.28 %) Windows 2000

13 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 13 6 (13.95 %) DHCP 13 6 (13.95 %) DNS 14 5 (11.63 %) Cisco 14 5 (11.63 %) LAN 14 5 (11.63 %) WAN 14 5 (11.63 %) GroupWise 15 4 (9.302 %) Novell 15 4 (9.302 %) TCP/IP 15 4 (9.302 %) Unix 16 3 (6.977 %) NetBackup 16 3 (6.977 %) Firewall 16 3 (6.977 %) Finance 16 3 (6.977 %) Network Security 16 3 (6.977 %) Linux

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Kent region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 21 (48.84 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 17 (39.53 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 17 (39.53 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 5 (11.63 %) GroupWise 4 2 (4.651 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 18 (41.86 %) MS Office 2 15 (34.88 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.326 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 6 (13.95 %) DHCP 1 6 (13.95 %) DNS 2 5 (11.63 %) LAN 2 5 (11.63 %) WAN 3 4 (9.302 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (6.977 %) VPN 4 3 (6.977 %) Internet 4 3 (6.977 %) Firewall 4 3 (6.977 %) Network Security 5 2 (4.651 %) SAN 5 2 (4.651 %) DMZ 5 2 (4.651 %) WINS 6 1 (2.326 %) ADSL 6 1 (2.326 %) DECT 6 1 (2.326 %) ISDN 6 1 (2.326 %) SSL 6 1 (2.326 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 9 (20.93 %) Health 2 3 (6.977 %) Finance 3 2 (4.651 %) Banking 3 2 (4.651 %) Local Government 3 2 (4.651 %) Government 4 1 (2.326 %) Construction 4 1 (2.326 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 10 (23.26 %) Support Engineer 1 10 (23.26 %) 2nd Line Support 2 8 (18.60 %) Desktop Support 3 5 (11.63 %) Analyst 3 5 (11.63 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (9.302 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (9.302 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (9.302 %) Server Engineer 5 3 (6.977 %) Windows Server Engineer 6 2 (4.651 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (4.651 %) Technical Support 6 2 (4.651 %) Server Support 6 2 (4.651 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (2.326 %) Technical Support Engineer 7 1 (2.326 %) Helpdesk Support 7 1 (2.326 %) Network Support Engineer 7 1 (2.326 %) IT Support Analyst 7 1 (2.326 %) Desktop Engineer 7 1 (2.326 %) IT Support Engineer 7 1 (2.326 %) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.651 %) Clustering 1 2 (4.651 %) PDA 1 2 (4.651 %) Informatics 2 1 (2.326 %) Fat Client 2 1 (2.326 %) Thin Client 2 1 (2.326 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.326 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.326 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 33 (76.74 %) Windows 2 20 (46.51 %) Windows NT 3 7 (16.28 %) Windows XP 3 7 (16.28 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (9.302 %) Unix 5 3 (6.977 %) Linux 5 3 (6.977 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (4.651 %) Tru64 6 2 (4.651 %) AIX 7 1 (2.326 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (23.26 %) Migration 2 8 (18.60 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (6.977 %) ITIL 4 2 (4.651 %) Investment Management 5 1 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.326 %) BCP 5 1 (2.326 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.977 %) SQL 2 1 (2.326 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (2.326 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.326 %) QA
System Software 1 30 (69.77 %) Active Directory 2 3 (6.977 %) NetBackup 2 3 (6.977 %) NDS 3 2 (4.651 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (4.651 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (4.651 %) VMware GSX 3 2 (4.651 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (2.326 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (2.326 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (2.326 %) Novell eDirectory	Systems Management 1 2 (4.651 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 22 (51.16 %) Microsoft 2 9 (20.93 %) Citrix 3 5 (11.63 %) Cisco 4 4 (9.302 %) Novell 5 2 (4.651 %) VMware 5 2 (4.651 %) PlateSpin 5 2 (4.651 %) Intel 5 2 (4.651 %) IBM 5 2 (4.651 %) CA 5 2 (4.651 %) HP 6 1 (2.326 %) Compaq 6 1 (2.326 %) Dell 6 1 (2.326 %) Siemens 6 1 (2.326 %) Symantec