Milton Keynes MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Milton Keynes 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 16 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 Burton-upon-Trent 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 Knottingley 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 Rochdale 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	50
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	30	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	21.74 %	8.571 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£357	-
Average daily rate	£364	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£370	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	138	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	53	15
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£398
Average daily rate	£327	£449
% change on same period last year	-27.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.29	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£30.87	£25.25
% change on same period last year	+22.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.45	£25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 33 (60.00 %) Windows 2 24 (43.64 %) Microsoft 3 23 (41.82 %) Active Directory 3 23 (41.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 22 (40.00 %) Migration 5 20 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 18 (32.73 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 18 (32.73 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 13 (23.64 %) Government 8 12 (21.82 %) Windows NT 8 12 (21.82 %) MS Office 9 10 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 10 9 (16.36 %) HP 10 9 (16.36 %) SQL 10 9 (16.36 %) Citrix

11 7 (12.73 %) Windows XP 12 6 (10.91 %) MS Excel 12 6 (10.91 %) Microsoft Certification 12 6 (10.91 %) SQL Server 13 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 13 5 (9.091 %) MailMarshal 13 5 (9.091 %) GoldMine 13 5 (9.091 %) Data Migration 13 5 (9.091 %) BusinessObjects 13 5 (9.091 %) Sage 13 5 (9.091 %) Web Design 13 5 (9.091 %) Business Objects 13 5 (9.091 %) Linux 13 5 (9.091 %) PHP 13 5 (9.091 %) ASP

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 5 (9.091 %) ASP 2 2 (3.636 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (3.636 %) WebServices 2 2 (3.636 %) WinForms 2 2 (3.636 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 2 (3.636 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 23 (41.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 20 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 18 (32.73 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 18 (32.73 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (3.636 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.818 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 12 (21.82 %) MS Office 2 6 (10.91 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (9.091 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.455 %) LAN 1 3 (5.455 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (5.455 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.636 %) SAN 2 2 (3.636 %) Ethernet 3 1 (1.818 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (10.91 %) SQL Server 2 5 (9.091 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (3.636 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
General 1 13 (23.64 %) Government 2 4 (7.273 %) Legal 2 4 (7.273 %) Telecoms 2 4 (7.273 %) Finance 3 3 (5.455 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 22 (40.00 %) Consultant 2 18 (32.73 %) Exchange Consultant 3 12 (21.82 %) Analyst 4 10 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 5 9 (16.36 %) Helpdesk Support 6 6 (10.91 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 6 (10.91 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 5 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (7.273 %) Support Engineer 8 4 (7.273 %) Technical Consultant 8 4 (7.273 %) Messaging Specialist 9 3 (5.455 %) Desktop Engineer 9 3 (5.455 %) Network Administrator 9 3 (5.455 %) Administrator 10 2 (3.636 %) Migration Consultant 10 2 (3.636 %) .NET Developer 10 2 (3.636 %) C# Developer 10 2 (3.636 %) Infrastructure Analyst 10 2 (3.636 %) Test Analyst 10 2 (3.636 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.455 %) AS400 1 3 (5.455 %) French Language 1 3 (5.455 %) German Language 2 2 (3.636 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.818 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 33 (60.00 %) Windows 2 12 (21.82 %) Windows NT 3 10 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (12.73 %) Windows XP 5 5 (9.091 %) Linux 6 2 (3.636 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (40.00 %) Migration 2 5 (9.091 %) Web Design 2 5 (9.091 %) Project Planning 2 5 (9.091 %) Data Migration 3 4 (7.273 %) Problem Management 4 3 (5.455 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (3.636 %) ITSM 5 2 (3.636 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.818 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 9 (16.36 %) SQL 2 5 (9.091 %) PHP 3 2 (3.636 %) C#
Qualifications 1 6 (10.91 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (7.273 %) CNE 2 4 (7.273 %) Novell Certification 2 4 (7.273 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.818 %) SLA
System Software 1 23 (41.82 %) Active Directory 2 5 (9.091 %) MailMarshal 3 1 (1.818 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 3 (5.455 %) OpenView 1 3 (5.455 %) OVOW 2 2 (3.636 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (1.818 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 24 (43.64 %) Microsoft 2 9 (16.36 %) HP 2 9 (16.36 %) Citrix 3 5 (9.091 %) Business Objects 3 5 (9.091 %) Sage 4 4 (7.273 %) Cisco 4 4 (7.273 %) Compaq 5 3 (5.455 %) JD Edwards 5 3 (5.455 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.636 %) IBM 6 2 (3.636 %) Dell 7 1 (1.818 %) VMware