Manchester MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	31
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	27	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	13.99 %	24.32 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£223	£163
Average daily rate	£239	£169
% change on same period last year	+41.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.17	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£16.67	£11.96
% change on same period last year	+39.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.17	£12.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
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 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Manchester 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 contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Manchester region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange 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	+2	1	-	-

MS Exchange North West

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 45 (77.59 %) Windows 2 39 (67.24 %) Microsoft 3 24 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 23 (39.66 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 21 (36.21 %) MS Office 5 21 (36.21 %) Windows 2000 6 19 (32.76 %) Active Directory 7 17 (29.31 %) MS Excel 8 16 (27.59 %) Windows XP 9 13 (22.41 %) Microsoft Certification 10 12 (20.69 %) Windows NT 10 12 (20.69 %) MCSE 11 10 (17.24 %) Citrix 11 10 (17.24 %) Cisco 12 8 (13.79 %) LAN

12 8 (13.79 %) WAN 12 8 (13.79 %) VPN 12 8 (13.79 %) German Language 12 8 (13.79 %) Dutch Language 12 8 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 7 (12.07 %) French Language 13 7 (12.07 %) AS400 13 7 (12.07 %) Ethernet 14 6 (10.34 %) Novell 14 6 (10.34 %) Windows Server 2003 14 6 (10.34 %) ISA Server 15 5 (8.621 %) Billing 15 5 (8.621 %) Thin Client 15 5 (8.621 %) CCA 15 5 (8.621 %) Citrix Certification

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (5.172 %) WebServices 2 2 (3.448 %) XML 2 2 (3.448 %) HTML 2 2 (3.448 %) J2EE 2 2 (3.448 %) Servlets 3 1 (1.724 %) MAPI 3 1 (1.724 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 24 (41.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 23 (39.66 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (13.79 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 5 (8.621 %) IIS 5 4 (6.897 %) GroupWise 6 2 (3.448 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Domino 7 1 (1.724 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 21 (36.21 %) MS Office 2 17 (29.31 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.79 %) LAN 1 8 (13.79 %) WAN 1 8 (13.79 %) VPN 2 7 (12.07 %) Ethernet 3 3 (5.172 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (5.172 %) Firewall 4 1 (1.724 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (1.724 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (1.724 %) Network Security 4 1 (1.724 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.724 %) WINS 4 1 (1.724 %) DNS 4 1 (1.724 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.724 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (3.448 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.724 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 5 (8.621 %) Billing 2 3 (5.172 %) Finance 2 3 (5.172 %) Construction 3 2 (3.448 %) Legal 4 1 (1.724 %) Government 4 1 (1.724 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.724 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 14 (24.14 %) Analyst 2 11 (18.97 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 10 (17.24 %) Support Engineer 4 8 (13.79 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (12.07 %) Support Specialist 5 7 (12.07 %) Systems Support 6 6 (10.34 %) Systems Engineer 6 6 (10.34 %) Systems Support Engineer 7 5 (8.621 %) IT Support Specialist 8 3 (5.172 %) Novell Engineer 8 3 (5.172 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (5.172 %) Technical Support 8 3 (5.172 %) Administrator 8 3 (5.172 %) Developer 8 3 (5.172 %) 3rd Line Support 8 3 (5.172 %) Server Engineer 9 2 (3.448 %) Network Support 9 2 (3.448 %) Rollout Engineer 9 2 (3.448 %) Server Support 9 2 (3.448 %) Installations Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (13.79 %) Dutch Language 1 8 (13.79 %) German Language 2 7 (12.07 %) French Language 2 7 (12.07 %) AS400 3 5 (8.621 %) Thin Client 3 5 (8.621 %) Fat Client 4 4 (6.897 %) Italian Language 4 4 (6.897 %) Spanish Language 4 4 (6.897 %) Danish Language 4 4 (6.897 %) Finnish Language 5 3 (5.172 %) NHS 5 3 (5.172 %) Blackberry 6 2 (3.448 %) RIA 7 1 (1.724 %) Swedish Language
Operating Systems 1 45 (77.59 %) Windows 2 21 (36.21 %) Windows 2000 3 16 (27.59 %) Windows XP 4 12 (20.69 %) Windows NT 5 6 (10.34 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.724 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.724 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.724 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.897 %) ITIL 2 2 (3.448 %) Migration 2 2 (3.448 %) OO 2 2 (3.448 %) OOD 2 2 (3.448 %) SOA 2 2 (3.448 %) Project Management 2 2 (3.448 %) Service Management 3 1 (1.724 %) Validation 3 1 (1.724 %) Problem Management 3 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.448 %) Java 1 2 (3.448 %) SQL 2 1 (1.724 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 13 (22.41 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (20.69 %) MCSE 3 5 (8.621 %) CCA 3 5 (8.621 %) Citrix Certification 3 5 (8.621 %) CCEA 4 3 (5.172 %) Novell Certification 5 2 (3.448 %) CNE 6 1 (1.724 %) MCP 6 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (1.724 %) Degree 6 1 (1.724 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (1.724 %) CCNA 6 1 (1.724 %) CNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.448 %) SLA	System Software 1 19 (32.76 %) Active Directory 2 6 (10.34 %) ISA Server 3 1 (1.724 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.724 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (1.724 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (1.724 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 3 (5.172 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (5.172 %) ZENworks 2 1 (1.724 %) DameWare 2 1 (1.724 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 39 (67.24 %) Microsoft 2 10 (17.24 %) Citrix 2 10 (17.24 %) Cisco 3 6 (10.34 %) Novell 4 3 (5.172 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.172 %) LANDesk 4 3 (5.172 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (3.448 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.724 %) Avaya 6 1 (1.724 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.724 %) SAP 6 1 (1.724 %) HP 6 1 (1.724 %) Dell 6 1 (1.724 %) Symantec