Manchester Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	46
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	23	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	11.92 %	14.19 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£150
Average daily rate	-	£163
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£15.88
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	193	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.166 %
Daily rates quoted	39	30
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£240
Average daily rate	£369	£259
% change on same period last year	+42.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.36	£15.35
Average hourly rate	£17.96	£16.50
% change on same period last year	+8.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.55	£17.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Exchange Server 2003 North West

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Manchester 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Manchester region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Manchester region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Stockport	+1	1	-	-
1	Wigan	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 North West

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Exchange Server 2003 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Exchange Server 2003.

1 35 (85.37 %) Windows 2 25 (60.98 %) Active Directory 3 23 (56.10 %) MS Exchange 4 19 (46.34 %) Microsoft 5 17 (41.46 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 14 (34.15 %) Windows Server 2003 7 13 (31.71 %) Windows XP 7 13 (31.71 %) Citrix 7 13 (31.71 %) LAN 7 13 (31.71 %) WAN 8 11 (26.83 %) Cisco 9 10 (24.39 %) VPN 10 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft Certification 10 9 (21.95 %) MS Excel 10 9 (21.95 %) Exchange Server 2007

11 8 (19.51 %) MCSE 12 7 (17.07 %) AS400 12 7 (17.07 %) ISA Server 12 7 (17.07 %) Ethernet 13 6 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 13 6 (14.63 %) IIS 13 6 (14.63 %) Migration 14 5 (12.20 %) Fat Client 14 5 (12.20 %) Blackberry 14 5 (12.20 %) Thin Client 14 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 14 5 (12.20 %) DHCP 14 5 (12.20 %) CCA 14 5 (12.20 %) Citrix Certification 14 5 (12.20 %) CCEA

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Exchange Server 2003 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 23 (56.10 %) MS Exchange 2 17 (41.46 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 9 (21.95 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 6 (14.63 %) IIS 5 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (2.439 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 9 (21.95 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 13 (31.71 %) LAN 1 13 (31.71 %) WAN 2 10 (24.39 %) VPN 3 7 (17.07 %) Ethernet 4 6 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (12.20 %) DHCP 5 5 (12.20 %) DNS 6 3 (7.317 %) Firewall 7 2 (4.878 %) SAN 8 1 (2.439 %) ADSL 8 1 (2.439 %) IP Telephony 8 1 (2.439 %) Cisco PIX 8 1 (2.439 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 2 (4.878 %) Construction 2 1 (2.439 %) Government	Job Titles 1 8 (19.51 %) Support Engineer 1 8 (19.51 %) 2nd Line Support 2 7 (17.07 %) Support Specialist 2 7 (17.07 %) Systems Support 3 6 (14.63 %) Systems Engineer 3 6 (14.63 %) Systems Support Engineer 3 6 (14.63 %) Exchange Engineer 4 5 (12.20 %) IT Support Specialist 4 5 (12.20 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (9.756 %) Helpdesk Support 6 3 (7.317 %) Hardware Engineer 6 3 (7.317 %) Server Engineer 7 2 (4.878 %) Migration Consultant 7 2 (4.878 %) Windows Server Engineer 7 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Consultant 7 2 (4.878 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.878 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (4.878 %) Technical Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Server Support 7 2 (4.878 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (17.07 %) AS400 2 5 (12.20 %) Thin Client 2 5 (12.20 %) Blackberry 2 5 (12.20 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.439 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 35 (85.37 %) Windows 2 14 (34.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (31.71 %) Windows XP 4 4 (9.756 %) Linux 5 3 (7.317 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (4.878 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.439 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (14.63 %) Migration 2 1 (2.439 %) Document Management 2 1 (2.439 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.439 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.878 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (19.51 %) MCSE 3 5 (12.20 %) CCA 3 5 (12.20 %) Citrix Certification 3 5 (12.20 %) CCEA 4 2 (4.878 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 25 (60.98 %) Active Directory 2 7 (17.07 %) ISA Server 3 5 (12.20 %) MetaFrame 4 3 (7.317 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (4.878 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (2.439 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 3 (7.317 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.439 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 19 (46.34 %) Microsoft 2 13 (31.71 %) Citrix 3 11 (26.83 %) Cisco 4 3 (7.317 %) HP 4 3 (7.317 %) LANDesk 5 2 (4.878 %) Oracle 5 2 (4.878 %) Novell 5 2 (4.878 %) Dell 6 1 (2.439 %) Siemens 6 1 (2.439 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.439 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.439 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.439 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (2.439 %) SurfControl 6 1 (2.439 %) VMware 6 1 (2.439 %) Fujitsu Siemens 6 1 (2.439 %) Compaq 6 1 (2.439 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (2.439 %) Alcatel