Leicestershire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Leicestershire 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	27	33
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	15.38 %	9.677 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£185	-
Average daily rate	£185	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£185	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£278
% change on same period last year	+13.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.20	£22.23
% change on same period last year	+4.34 %
Application Platforms Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	39	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	13	6
Average minimum daily rate	£238	£342
Average daily rate	£252	£355
% change on same period last year	-29.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£265	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.60	£15.58
Average hourly rate	£20.80	£16.83
% change on same period last year	+23.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£18.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
Exchange Server 2003 East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Leicestershire region.

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 Leicestershire 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
Loughborough	-	5	£185	-
Leicester	+6	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East Midlands

Exchange Server 2003
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 7 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (57.14 %) Education 2 4 (57.14 %) Migration 2 4 (57.14 %) Network Design 2 4 (57.14 %) ProCurve 2 4 (57.14 %) HP AIS 2 4 (57.14 %) HP 2 4 (57.14 %) Citrix 2 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (57.14 %) MCSE 2 4 (57.14 %) MCSA 2 4 (57.14 %) VoIP

3 1 (14.29 %) WAN 3 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 3 1 (14.29 %) DNS 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 3 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) Government 3 1 (14.29 %) LAN

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 7 (100.00 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 4 (57.14 %) VoIP 2 1 (14.29 %) WAN 2 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 2 1 (14.29 %) DNS 2 1 (14.29 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Education 2 1 (14.29 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Citrix Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Technician 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Network Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Migration 1 4 (57.14 %) Network Design 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (57.14 %) HP AIS 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (57.14 %) MCSE 1 4 (57.14 %) MCSA	System Software 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) ProCurve 1 4 (57.14 %) HP 1 4 (57.14 %) Citrix 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware