Lincolnshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Lincolnshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Ayrshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley 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 Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent King's Lynn Lancashire 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 Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	14
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	31.25 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£134	-
Average daily rate	£139	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£144	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£275
% change on same period last year	+0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.60	£23.46
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Application Platforms Lincolnshire
Matching contract IT job ads	16	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£130	-
Average daily rate	£136	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£142	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.17	-
Average hourly rate	£23.58	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.67	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
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 Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Lincolnshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Lincoln	-	2	£133	-
Scunthorpe	-	1	-	-
Spalding	-	1	£150	-
Grimsby	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East Midlands

Exchange Server 2003
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory 3 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 4 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (27.27 %) NetWare 5 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 5 3 (27.27 %) Novell 5 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 5 3 (27.27 %) Migration 5 3 (27.27 %) GroupWise 6 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 6 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 7 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003

7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 7 1 (9.091 %) DNS 7 1 (9.091 %) Cisco 7 1 (9.091 %) Linux 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 1 (9.091 %) MCP 7 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (27.27 %) GroupWise 4 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) Technical Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) IT Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Support 4 1 (9.091 %) IT Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 3 3 (27.27 %) NetWare 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) MCP
System Software 1 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 1 3 (27.27 %) Novell 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Cisco