The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2010 over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Rank 164 191 328
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +137
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 261 256 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.205% 0.950% 0.370%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.505% 5.874% 2.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 157 48
Average daily rate £338 £350 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £510 £447
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.60% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 20
Average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.60 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.80 £23.00 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.85 £20.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+11.43% +2.50%
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4012 4358 5145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.53% 16.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2559 2703 3152
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 128 175
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2010
England

Exchange Server 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

London Exchange Server 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the London region.

London Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Exchange Server 2010 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the London region.

London Exchange Server 2010 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2010
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Exchange Server 2010 Hourly Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2010
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2010 within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +13 73 £355 -11.25%
Croydon +10 5 - -
Canary Wharf +2 4 £330 -
Docklands, London - 2 £283 -
Ealing - 1 £260 -
Wembley - 1 £375 -
Greenwich - 1 £425 -
Hackney - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Exchange Server 2010
England

Exchange Server 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010.

1 495 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 328 (66.26%) Windows
3 325 (65.66%) Active Directory
4 277 (55.96%) Microsoft
5 221 (44.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 196 (39.60%) VMware
7 164 (33.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 162 (32.73%) Exchange Server 2003
9 147 (29.70%) Exchange Server 2007
10 131 (26.46%) Migration
11 130 (26.26%) Blackberry
12 126 (25.45%) Citrix
13 120 (24.24%) DNS
14 114 (23.03%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 101 (20.40%) SAN
16 99 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
17 95 (19.19%) Lync
18 90 (18.18%) Cisco
18 90 (18.18%) DHCP
19 83 (16.77%) Symantec
20 77 (15.56%) Finance
21 76 (15.35%) SharePoint
21 76 (15.35%) MS Office
22 75 (15.15%) PowerShell
23 74 (14.95%) SCOM
23 74 (14.95%) SQL
23 74 (14.95%) HP
24 73 (14.75%) TCP/IP
25 72 (14.55%) SQL Server
25 72 (14.55%) Windows 7

Exchange Server 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Exchange Server 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (1.818%) Web Services
2 7 (1.414%) .NET
3 5 (1.010%) COM
3 5 (1.010%) Middleware
3 5 (1.010%) Application Packaging
4 2 (0.404%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.404%) jQuery
4 2 (0.404%) Ajax
4 2 (0.404%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.404%) CSS
4 2 (0.404%) XML
4 2 (0.404%) HTML
5 1 (0.202%) ADO.NET
5 1 (0.202%) ASP
5 1 (0.202%) WCF
5 1 (0.202%) WPF
5 1 (0.202%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.202%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.202%) RESTful
5 1 (0.202%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 495 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 162 (32.73%) Exchange Server 2003
3 147 (29.70%) Exchange Server 2007
4 114 (23.03%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 95 (19.19%) Lync
6 76 (15.35%) SharePoint
7 39 (7.879%) Lotus Notes
8 31 (6.263%) Office Communications Server
9 25 (5.051%) SharePoint 2010
10 20 (4.040%) Exchange Server 2013
11 18 (3.636%) IIS
12 17 (3.434%) Lotus Domino
13 7 (1.414%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (1.010%) Apache
14 5 (1.010%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.808%) SharePoint 2013
15 4 (0.808%) WorkSite
15 4 (0.808%) BizTalk Server
16 3 (0.606%) Live Communications Server
17 1 (0.202%) CMS
Applications
1 76 (15.35%) MS Office
2 66 (13.33%) MS Excel
3 30 (6.061%) Office 365
4 5 (1.010%) MS Project
5 4 (0.808%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.404%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.202%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (1.616%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.202%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 120 (24.24%) DNS
2 101 (20.40%) SAN
3 90 (18.18%) DHCP
4 73 (14.75%) TCP/IP
5 50 (10.10%) Firewall
5 50 (10.10%) LAN
6 47 (9.495%) WAN
7 41 (8.283%) SMTP
8 37 (7.475%) VPN
9 30 (6.061%) SSL
9 30 (6.061%) Cisco ASA
10 25 (5.051%) NAS
11 23 (4.646%) LDAP
12 19 (3.838%) POP3
12 19 (3.838%) Cisco PIX
13 17 (3.434%) Internet
13 17 (3.434%) VLAN
14 16 (3.232%) VoIP
15 11 (2.222%) IP Telephony
15 11 (2.222%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.879%) SQL Server 2008
3 25 (5.051%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (1.010%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (1.010%) MS Access
4 5 (1.010%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.202%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.202%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 4 (0.808%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.606%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.202%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.202%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.202%) Git (software)
General
1 77 (15.56%) Finance
2 47 (9.495%) Banking
3 28 (5.657%) Law
4 21 (4.242%) Legal
5 19 (3.838%) Investment Banking
6 16 (3.232%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.818%) Publishing
8 6 (1.212%) Advertising
9 5 (1.010%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.808%) Back Office
11 3 (0.606%) Retail
11 3 (0.606%) German Language
12 1 (0.202%) Games
12 1 (0.202%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.202%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (17.78%) Analyst
2 53 (10.71%) Support Engineer
3 45 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
4 43 (8.687%) Consultant
5 40 (8.081%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (7.677%) Administrator
7 34 (6.869%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 33 (6.667%) Project Manager
9 30 (6.061%) Exchange Engineer
10 27 (5.455%) Architect
11 21 (4.242%) IT Support
11 21 (4.242%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 21 (4.242%) Support Analyst
12 20 (4.040%) 2nd Line Support
13 19 (3.838%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (3.636%) Test Analyst
15 17 (3.434%) Messaging Engineer
16 16 (3.232%) Exchange Administrator
17 14 (2.828%) Exchange Consultant
17 14 (2.828%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 130 (26.26%) Blackberry
2 19 (3.838%) Clustering
3 18 (3.636%) EqualLogic
4 13 (2.626%) Hedge funds
5 11 (2.222%) Smartphone
5 11 (2.222%) Mobile Computing
6 10 (2.020%) iPhone
7 6 (1.212%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.010%) Replication
8 5 (1.010%) PKI
9 4 (0.808%) Statistics
9 4 (0.808%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.808%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.808%) CLARiiON
9 4 (0.808%) NHS
9 4 (0.808%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.606%) PMI
10 3 (0.606%) iPad
11 2 (0.404%) Computer Science
11 2 (0.404%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 328 (66.26%) Windows
2 221 (44.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 164 (33.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 72 (14.55%) Windows 7
5 62 (12.53%) Windows XP
6 25 (5.051%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (4.040%) Mac OS X
8 17 (3.434%) Android
8 17 (3.434%) Windows 8
9 14 (2.828%) Windows 2000
10 13 (2.626%) Windows Vista
11 12 (2.424%) Apple iOS
11 12 (2.424%) Linux
12 10 (2.020%) Windows Phone
12 10 (2.020%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (0.808%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.808%) Solaris
14 3 (0.606%) UNIX
14 3 (0.606%) AIX
14 3 (0.606%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (26.46%) Migration
2 66 (13.33%) ITIL
3 37 (7.475%) Project Management
4 36 (7.273%) PRINCE2
5 26 (5.253%) Business Continuity
6 24 (4.848%) Change Management
7 21 (4.242%) Service Delivery
7 21 (4.242%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (3.232%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (2.828%) CRM
9 14 (2.828%) Configuration Management
10 13 (2.626%) Service Management
10 13 (2.626%) Problem Management
11 12 (2.424%) Asset Management
12 11 (2.222%) Network Load Balancing
12 11 (2.222%) Data Migration
13 9 (1.818%) Test Scripting
13 9 (1.818%) High Availability
13 9 (1.818%) Mobile Device Management
14 6 (1.212%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 75 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 74 (14.95%) SQL
3 16 (3.232%) C
4 6 (1.212%) Shell Script
5 3 (0.606%) C#
5 3 (0.606%) VBScript
6 2 (0.404%) Perl
6 2 (0.404%) Java
7 1 (0.202%) Python
7 1 (0.202%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.202%) PHP
7 1 (0.202%) VB
7 1 (0.202%) XAML
Qualifications
1 57 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (8.889%) MCSE
3 32 (6.465%) MCITP
4 23 (4.646%) CCNA
4 23 (4.646%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (4.242%) Security Cleared
6 18 (3.636%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 16 (3.232%) ISEB
7 16 (3.232%) Citrix Certification
8 12 (2.424%) CCA
9 11 (2.222%) CCEA
9 11 (2.222%) CCNP
9 11 (2.222%) MCSA
9 11 (2.222%) Degree
10 9 (1.818%) MCP
10 9 (1.818%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.818%) SC Cleared
11 8 (1.616%) MCDST
12 7 (1.414%) MCTS
13 4 (0.808%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.626%) SLA
2 12 (2.424%) QA
3 9 (1.818%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.404%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 325 (65.66%) Active Directory
2 99 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (12.93%) XenApp
4 50 (10.10%) vSphere
5 28 (5.657%) Hyper-V
6 25 (5.051%) VMware ESX
7 22 (4.444%) XenDesktop
8 17 (3.434%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (3.030%) UAG
10 11 (2.222%) ISA Server
11 10 (2.020%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 8 (1.616%) XenServer
13 6 (1.212%) NFS
14 5 (1.010%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.808%) Forefront TMG
15 4 (0.808%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.808%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.606%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.404%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 2 (0.404%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (14.95%) SCOM
2 53 (10.71%) SCCM
3 51 (10.30%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 31 (6.263%) Backup Exec
5 19 (3.838%) Norton AntiVirus
6 14 (2.828%) MAILsweeper
7 13 (2.626%) WSUS
8 11 (2.222%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 11 (2.222%) HP SIM
8 11 (2.222%) SCVMM
9 8 (1.616%) Tivoli
10 7 (1.414%) MOM
10 7 (1.414%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (1.414%) McAfee ePO
11 6 (1.212%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.808%) RepliStor
12 4 (0.808%) OpenView
13 3 (0.606%) Legato
13 3 (0.606%) WMI
13 3 (0.606%) Cacti
Vendors
1 277 (55.96%) Microsoft
2 196 (39.60%) VMware
3 126 (25.45%) Citrix
4 90 (18.18%) Cisco
5 83 (16.77%) Symantec
6 74 (14.95%) HP
7 50 (10.10%) NetApp
8 39 (7.879%) Lotus
9 35 (7.071%) Dell
10 17 (3.434%) EMC
10 17 (3.434%) McAfee
11 16 (3.232%) Altiris
12 14 (2.828%) Apple
13 13 (2.626%) Sophos
13 13 (2.626%) Oracle
14 12 (2.424%) Websense
15 10 (2.020%) Broadcom
15 10 (2.020%) MobileIron
15 10 (2.020%) Veritas
16 8 (1.616%) Compaq
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