Norfolk Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Norfolk 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 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	32
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	13.95 %	16.13 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£190	-
Average daily rate	£215	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£240	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£288
% change on same period last year	+13.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.14	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£21.70
% change on same period last year	-17.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.86	£23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.88	£19.92
% change on same period last year	+9.80 %
Application Platforms Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	86	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	28	4
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£264
Average daily rate	£376	£308
% change on same period last year	+22.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.82	£18.47
Average hourly rate	£17.74	£20.92
% change on same period last year	-15.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.65	£23.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Exchange Server 2003 East of England

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Norfolk 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 IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Norfolk region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Exchange Server 2003
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 2003 within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Norwich	-2	6	£215	-
Great Yarmouth	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 East of England

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 21 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (76.19 %) Citrix 2 16 (76.19 %) VMware 3 13 (61.90 %) Active Directory 3 13 (61.90 %) Windows 4 12 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 5 10 (47.62 %) SAN 6 9 (42.86 %) DNS 7 8 (38.10 %) Back Office 8 7 (33.33 %) SQL Server 9 5 (23.81 %) DHCP 10 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft 11 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 11 3 (14.29 %) VoIP 12 2 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2000

12 2 (9.524 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 2 (9.524 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 2 (9.524 %) LAN 12 2 (9.524 %) SQL 12 2 (9.524 %) MS Office 12 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 12 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 12 2 (9.524 %) Avaya 12 2 (9.524 %) Windows XP 12 2 (9.524 %) CCA 12 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification 13 1 (4.762 %) HP 13 1 (4.762 %) Dell 13 1 (4.762 %) EMC 13 1 (4.762 %) Intel

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 21 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (9.524 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (4.762 %) IIS 3 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Office 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 10 (47.62 %) SAN 2 9 (42.86 %) DNS 3 5 (23.81 %) DHCP 4 3 (14.29 %) VoIP 5 2 (9.524 %) LAN 6 1 (4.762 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (4.762 %) Nortel Meridian 6 1 (4.762 %) WAN 6 1 (4.762 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (33.33 %) SQL Server
General 1 8 (38.10 %) Back Office 2 1 (4.762 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 10 (47.62 %) Systems Engineer 2 8 (38.10 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (23.81 %) Systems Support 3 5 (23.81 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 3 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 4 3 (14.29 %) IT Support Engineer 4 3 (14.29 %) Systems Support Engineer 5 2 (9.524 %) PC Support 5 2 (9.524 %) Support Technician 5 2 (9.524 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (9.524 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.762 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Network Support Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Consultant
Operating Systems 1 13 (61.90 %) Windows 2 12 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (9.524 %) Windows XP 3 2 (9.524 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.762 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 2 (9.524 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 2 2 (9.524 %) CCA 2 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification
System Software 1 13 (61.90 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (4.762 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (4.762 %) MOM
Vendors 1 16 (76.19 %) Citrix 1 16 (76.19 %) VMware 2 4 (19.05 %) Microsoft 3 2 (9.524 %) Avaya 4 1 (4.762 %) Siemens 4 1 (4.762 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.762 %) HP 4 1 (4.762 %) Dell 4 1 (4.762 %) EMC 4 1 (4.762 %) Intel 4 1 (4.762 %) Nortel