M4 Corridor MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the M4 Corridor 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kent Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	24
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	27.27 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£305
Average daily rate	£400	£305
% change on same period last year	+31.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£302
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
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	£19.04	£18.62
% change on same period last year	+2.25 %
Application Platforms M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	11	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£324
Average daily rate	£383	£324
% change on same period last year	+18.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
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	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
MS Exchange South East

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 M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the M4 Corridor region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 M4 Corridor region.

MS Exchange
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (85.71 %) MS Excel 3 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 4 4 (57.14 %) VMware 4 4 (57.14 %) Clustering 5 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 6 2 (28.57 %) OpenView 6 2 (28.57 %) Windows NT 6 2 (28.57 %) DNS 6 2 (28.57 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 2 (28.57 %) SAN 6 2 (28.57 %) Novell 6 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003

6 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (14.29 %) Red Hat 7 1 (14.29 %) Firewall 7 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 7 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 7 1 (14.29 %) Linux

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 6 (85.71 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) DNS 1 2 (28.57 %) SAN 2 1 (14.29 %) Firewall	Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Analyst 2 4 (57.14 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (57.14 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows NT 4 1 (14.29 %) Linux
System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 2 (28.57 %) OpenView 1 2 (28.57 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 2 4 (57.14 %) VMware 3 2 (28.57 %) Novell 4 1 (14.29 %) Red Hat 4 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 4 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft