Leeds MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 15 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 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 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	48
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	28	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	17.07 %	14.67 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£178
Average daily rate	£283	£189
% change on same period last year	+50.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.50	£15.66
Average hourly rate	£12.25	£16.24
% change on same period last year	-24.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£16.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	164	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.210 %	0.169 %
Daily rates quoted	33	28
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£284
Average daily rate	£316	£299
% change on same period last year	+5.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.64	£15.54
Average hourly rate	£19.25	£16.62
% change on same period last year	+15.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.86	£17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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.

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Leeds 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 Leeds region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (81.82 %) Windows 2 34 (77.27 %) Active Directory 2 34 (77.27 %) Microsoft 3 17 (38.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 15 (34.09 %) MS Office 5 14 (31.82 %) ITIL 6 12 (27.27 %) MS Excel 7 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 8 10 (22.73 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 9 (20.45 %) Citrix 9 9 (20.45 %) DNS 9 9 (20.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 8 (18.18 %) Windows XP 10 8 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003

11 7 (15.91 %) WAN 11 7 (15.91 %) SharePoint 11 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2000 11 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 11 7 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 12 6 (13.64 %) SQL 12 6 (13.64 %) SAN 12 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 12 6 (13.64 %) Service Management 12 6 (13.64 %) Telecoms 13 5 (11.36 %) VMware 13 5 (11.36 %) VMware ESX 13 5 (11.36 %) Firewall 13 5 (11.36 %) Network Load Balancing 13 5 (11.36 %) Internet

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds 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 Development 1 1 (2.273 %) .NET 1 1 (2.273 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 17 (38.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (20.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 7 (15.91 %) SharePoint 4 5 (11.36 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 3 (6.818 %) WorkSite 6 1 (2.273 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 1 (2.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 15 (34.09 %) MS Office 2 12 (27.27 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.273 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.45 %) DNS 2 7 (15.91 %) WAN 3 6 (13.64 %) SAN 4 5 (11.36 %) Internet 4 5 (11.36 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (11.36 %) Firewall 5 4 (9.091 %) VPN 5 4 (9.091 %) DHCP 5 4 (9.091 %) MPLS 6 3 (6.818 %) WINS 7 1 (2.273 %) IMAP 7 1 (2.273 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (4.545 %) MS Access 4 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (2.273 %) EDRMS	General 1 6 (13.64 %) Telecoms 2 4 (9.091 %) Finance 3 3 (6.818 %) Health 3 3 (6.818 %) Legal 4 2 (4.545 %) Banking 4 2 (4.545 %) Law 5 1 (2.273 %) Government
Job Titles 1 13 (29.55 %) Analyst 2 8 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (13.64 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 6 (13.64 %) Service Analyst 4 4 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (9.091 %) Server Support 4 4 (9.091 %) Project Manager 5 3 (6.818 %) Technical Support 5 3 (6.818 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (6.818 %) Technical Manager 5 3 (6.818 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Server Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Helpdesk Operator 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Workstream Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Technical Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Technician 6 2 (4.545 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.818 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.273 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 36 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (18.18 %) Windows XP 2 8 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (6.818 %) NetWare 5 2 (4.545 %) Windows NT 5 2 (4.545 %) Solaris 5 2 (4.545 %) Unix 6 1 (2.273 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (31.82 %) ITIL 2 7 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (13.64 %) Service Management 4 5 (11.36 %) Project Management 4 5 (11.36 %) Network Load Balancing 5 3 (6.818 %) Supplier Management 6 2 (4.545 %) ITSM 6 2 (4.545 %) PRINCE 7 1 (2.273 %) MOF 7 1 (2.273 %) Workflow 7 1 (2.273 %) Migration 7 1 (2.273 %) Network Design 7 1 (2.273 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 6 (13.64 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 3 2 (4.545 %) CCNA 3 2 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (4.545 %) MCP 4 1 (2.273 %) MCSA 4 1 (2.273 %) CNA 4 1 (2.273 %) CNE 4 1 (2.273 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 34 (77.27 %) Active Directory 2 5 (11.36 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (9.091 %) MetaFrame 4 3 (6.818 %) Novell eDirectory 5 2 (4.545 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 10 (22.73 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.273 %) ARCserve 2 1 (2.273 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (2.273 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 34 (77.27 %) Microsoft 2 9 (20.45 %) Citrix 3 5 (11.36 %) VMware 4 4 (9.091 %) Symantec 5 3 (6.818 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.273 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.273 %) Novell 6 1 (2.273 %) Meridio