The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Liverpool region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 23 20 15
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -5
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 1 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.676% 5.376% 5.625%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.846% 21.28% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £274 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.76% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
- +12.90%
All Application Platforms
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
26 47 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 17.57% 25.27% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 22
Average daily rate £438 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £385 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.50 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.28% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
MS Exchange
Merseyside

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Liverpool MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) MCP
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Symantec
5 1 (20.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (20.00%) Security Management
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCP
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) NETGEAR
4 1 (20.00%) Symantec
4 1 (20.00%) Wyse
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
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