Leeds Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Leeds 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	62
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	29	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	15.68 %	6.164 %
Daily rates quoted	10	0
Average minimum daily rate	£260	-
Average daily rate	£280	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.67	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£21.67	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+88.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.67	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Application Platforms Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	185	146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.247 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	36	36
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£357
Average daily rate	£306	£376
% change on same period last year	-18.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.14	£14.09
Average hourly rate	£20.74	£15.22
% change on same period last year	+36.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.34	£16.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2003 West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (94.74 %) Windows 2 29 (76.32 %) MS Exchange 3 28 (73.68 %) Active Directory 4 23 (60.53 %) Microsoft 5 21 (55.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 18 (47.37 %) WAN 7 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 7 17 (44.74 %) ITIL 8 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 2005 9 13 (34.21 %) SQL 9 13 (34.21 %) Windows XP 10 12 (31.58 %) VMware ESX 11 11 (28.95 %) Firewall 11 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2000 11 11 (28.95 %) Windows Server 2003

12 10 (26.32 %) SAN 12 10 (26.32 %) VPN 12 10 (26.32 %) PRINCE2 12 10 (26.32 %) MS Office 12 10 (26.32 %) MPLS 13 9 (23.68 %) Finance 13 9 (23.68 %) Windows 2000 13 9 (23.68 %) MS Excel 14 8 (21.05 %) MCSE 14 8 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification 14 8 (21.05 %) VMware 14 8 (21.05 %) VMware Infrastructure 15 7 (18.42 %) Project Management 16 6 (15.79 %) Law 16 6 (15.79 %) Banking

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 Development 1 4 (10.53 %) X-Windows 2 2 (5.263 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 29 (76.32 %) MS Exchange 2 21 (55.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 5 (13.16 %) SharePoint 4 3 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 10 (26.32 %) MS Office 2 9 (23.68 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 18 (47.37 %) WAN 2 11 (28.95 %) Firewall 3 10 (26.32 %) MPLS 3 10 (26.32 %) VPN 3 10 (26.32 %) SAN 4 4 (10.53 %) Internet 5 3 (7.895 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (5.263 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 2 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (28.95 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (7.895 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (5.263 %) MS Access	General 1 9 (23.68 %) Finance 2 6 (15.79 %) Law 2 6 (15.79 %) Banking 3 3 (7.895 %) Legal 4 1 (2.632 %) Government
Job Titles 1 5 (13.16 %) Systems Administrator 1 5 (13.16 %) Support Engineer 1 5 (13.16 %) Administrator 1 5 (13.16 %) Project Engineer 2 4 (10.53 %) Server Engineer 2 4 (10.53 %) Technical Consultant 2 4 (10.53 %) Systems Engineer 2 4 (10.53 %) Server Support 2 4 (10.53 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (10.53 %) Analyst 2 4 (10.53 %) Consultant 3 3 (7.895 %) Desktop Support 3 3 (7.895 %) Server Support Engineer 3 3 (7.895 %) IT Support Analyst 4 2 (5.263 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 2 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 4 2 (5.263 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 4 2 (5.263 %) Windows Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (13.16 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.632 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 36 (94.74 %) Windows 2 13 (34.21 %) Windows XP 3 11 (28.95 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (23.68 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (13.16 %) Mac OS X 6 3 (7.895 %) NetWare 7 1 (2.632 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.632 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (44.74 %) ITIL 2 10 (26.32 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (18.42 %) Project Management 4 4 (10.53 %) Network Load Balancing 5 1 (2.632 %) Problem Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 13 (34.21 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 8 (21.05 %) MCSE 1 8 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (2.632 %) HNC 3 1 (2.632 %) CNA 3 1 (2.632 %) CNE 3 1 (2.632 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 28 (73.68 %) Active Directory 2 12 (31.58 %) VMware ESX 3 8 (21.05 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (7.895 %) Backup Exec 4 3 (7.895 %) Novell eDirectory 5 1 (2.632 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 5 (13.16 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (5.263 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (2.632 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 23 (60.53 %) Microsoft 2 8 (21.05 %) VMware 3 5 (13.16 %) Symantec 4 4 (10.53 %) Citrix 5 3 (7.895 %) Apple 6 2 (5.263 %) Mitel 7 1 (2.632 %) Altiris 7 1 (2.632 %) Novell 7 1 (2.632 %) Intel