Leicestershire MS Exchange Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	36
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	9	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	18.52 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£200
Average daily rate	£280	£250
% change on same period last year	+12.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£298
% change on same period last year	+5.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	-
Average hourly rate	£17.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.57	£18.93
% change on same period last year	+13.95 %
Application Platforms Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	30	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£342
Average daily rate	£319	£355
% change on same period last year	-10.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.83	£15.56
Average hourly rate	£15.75	£16.83
% change on same period last year	-6.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.67	£18.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Leicestershire 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the Leicestershire region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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	-1	2	£185	-26.00 %
Leicester	+4	1	£375	-

MS Exchange East Midlands

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 16 (72.73 %) Windows 1 16 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 12 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 7 (31.82 %) Citrix 5 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 5 6 (27.27 %) MCSE 5 6 (27.27 %) VMware 6 5 (22.73 %) DHCP 6 5 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 6 5 (22.73 %) DNS 7 4 (18.18 %) HP 7 4 (18.18 %) VoIP 7 4 (18.18 %) MCSA 7 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server

7 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 7 4 (18.18 %) Education 7 4 (18.18 %) Network Design 7 4 (18.18 %) ProCurve 7 4 (18.18 %) HP AIS 7 4 (18.18 %) Migration 8 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel 8 3 (13.64 %) WAN 8 3 (13.64 %) LAN 8 3 (13.64 %) VPN 8 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL 9 2 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 10 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 4 (18.18 %) MS Office 2 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (22.73 %) DHCP 1 5 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 1 5 (22.73 %) DNS 2 4 (18.18 %) VoIP 3 3 (13.64 %) WAN 3 3 (13.64 %) LAN 3 3 (13.64 %) VPN 4 2 (9.091 %) Wireless 5 1 (4.545 %) SAN 5 1 (4.545 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 4 (18.18 %) Education 2 1 (4.545 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (18.18 %) Server Support 1 4 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 1 4 (18.18 %) Citrix Engineer 2 3 (13.64 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (13.64 %) Analyst 2 3 (13.64 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Senior Systems Engineer 3 2 (9.091 %) Network Support Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 3 2 (9.091 %) Systems Support 3 2 (9.091 %) Support Technician 3 2 (9.091 %) Administrator 3 2 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 3 2 (9.091 %) Systems Support Engineer 3 2 (9.091 %) Network Support 3 2 (9.091 %) Senior Support Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Server Support Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Rollout Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 4 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Management Information System 2 1 (4.545 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 16 (72.73 %) Windows 2 12 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP 4 1 (4.545 %) AIX 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (4.545 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (18.18 %) Migration 1 4 (18.18 %) Network Design 2 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 6 (27.27 %) MCSE 1 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (18.18 %) HP AIS 2 4 (18.18 %) MCSA	System Software 1 16 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 2 (9.091 %) VMware Server 3 1 (4.545 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 2 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (4.545 %) Tivoli 2 1 (4.545 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 7 (31.82 %) Citrix 2 6 (27.27 %) VMware 3 4 (18.18 %) HP 3 4 (18.18 %) ProCurve 4 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 5 1 (4.545 %) Cisco 5 1 (4.545 %) IBM 5 1 (4.545 %) Brocade 5 1 (4.545 %) NetApp