London Exchange Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Exchange Engineer role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Cumbria Denbighshire Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Preston Salford Scotland Slough South East South West St Asaph Staines Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands Wiltshire Wolverhampton	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	372	450
Rank change on same period last year	+78
Matching contract IT job ads	27	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.097 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£340
Average daily rate	£291	£360
% change on same period last year	-19.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£282	£240
% change on same period last year	+17.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.25	£19.70
Average hourly rate	£24.25	£19.70
% change on same period last year	+23.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.25	£19.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	27870	42471
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.24 %	42.92 %
Daily rates quoted	11573	15986
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£422
Average daily rate	£429	£451
% change on same period last year	-4.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1595	2259
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.05	£24.09
Average hourly rate	£25.60	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.16	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Engineer across the London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Engineer within the London 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
City of London	-8	9	£273	-8.95 %
Hammersmith	-	4	-	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	1	£325	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Exchange Engineer in their job title 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 with Exchange Engineer in their job title.

1 39 (81.25 %) MS Exchange 2 29 (60.42 %) Windows Server 2003 2 29 (60.42 %) Windows 3 27 (56.25 %) Microsoft 4 26 (54.17 %) Active Directory 5 21 (43.75 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 18 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 18 (37.50 %) Blackberry 7 17 (35.42 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 15 (31.25 %) SMTP 9 14 (29.17 %) Symantec 10 12 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 11 11 (22.92 %) MS Excel 11 11 (22.92 %) VERITAS 11 11 (22.92 %) Banking

12 10 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2008 12 10 (20.83 %) Internet 12 10 (20.83 %) SQL 12 10 (20.83 %) IIS 12 10 (20.83 %) Disaster Recovery 13 9 (18.75 %) Migration 13 9 (18.75 %) VPN 13 9 (18.75 %) MAPI 13 9 (18.75 %) SSL 13 9 (18.75 %) IMAP 14 8 (16.67 %) EMC 14 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 14 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 15 7 (14.58 %) Lotus 15 7 (14.58 %) Replication

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Exchange Engineer in their job title 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 with Exchange Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (18.75 %) MAPI 2 2 (4.167 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 39 (81.25 %) MS Exchange 2 21 (43.75 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 18 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 17 (35.42 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 10 (20.83 %) IIS 6 6 (12.50 %) Lotus Domino 6 6 (12.50 %) Office Communications Server 7 5 (10.42 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (4.167 %) Tomcat 8 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (2.083 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 11 (22.92 %) MS Excel 2 8 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 15 (31.25 %) SMTP 2 10 (20.83 %) Internet 3 9 (18.75 %) IMAP 3 9 (18.75 %) VPN 3 9 (18.75 %) SSL 4 2 (4.167 %) LLU 4 2 (4.167 %) DSL 5 1 (2.083 %) Firewall 5 1 (2.083 %) IPv4
General 1 11 (22.92 %) Banking 2 7 (14.58 %) Investment Banking 3 3 (6.250 %) Finance 4 2 (4.167 %) Education 5 1 (2.083 %) Legal	Miscellaneous 1 18 (37.50 %) Blackberry 2 7 (14.58 %) Replication 2 7 (14.58 %) CLARiiON 2 7 (14.58 %) Symmetrix 2 7 (14.58 %) EMC Centera 3 2 (4.167 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1 (2.083 %) SecurID
Operating Systems 1 29 (60.42 %) Windows 1 29 (60.42 %) Windows Server 2003 2 12 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 10 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2008 4 3 (6.250 %) Windows Mobile 4 3 (6.250 %) UNIX 4 3 (6.250 %) Linux 5 2 (4.167 %) Solaris 6 1 (2.083 %) Windows XP 6 1 (2.083 %) Debian 6 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.83 %) Disaster Recovery 2 9 (18.75 %) Migration 3 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 4 7 (14.58 %) Process Management 5 4 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (6.250 %) Project Management 7 2 (4.167 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (2.083 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (2.083 %) Operations Management 8 1 (2.083 %) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages 1 10 (20.83 %) SQL 2 2 (4.167 %) Java 2 2 (4.167 %) Perl 3 1 (2.083 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) MCSE 1 2 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.083 %) MCSA
System Software 1 26 (54.17 %) Active Directory 2 4 (8.333 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.083 %) Xen	Systems Management 1 7 (14.58 %) EMC TimeFinder 2 1 (2.083 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 27 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 14 (29.17 %) Symantec 3 11 (22.92 %) VERITAS 4 8 (16.67 %) EMC 5 7 (14.58 %) Lotus 6 2 (4.167 %) Citrix 6 2 (4.167 %) Sybase 7 1 (2.083 %) HP 7 1 (2.083 %) Yahoo!