Norfolk MS Exchange Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	35
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	20	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	24.10 %	21.62 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£150
Average daily rate	£230	£200
% change on same period last year	+14.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£247	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£301
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.14	£17.67
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£19.92
% change on same period last year	-9.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.86	£22.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.38	£19.11
% change on same period last year	+11.86 %
Application Platforms Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	83	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	25	5
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£343
Average daily rate	£355	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
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	£24.63	£24.22
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Norfolk region.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 6 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	+5	11	£230	+14.99 %
Great Yarmouth	-	2	-	-
King's Lynn	-	1	-	-

MS Exchange East of England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 29 (74.36 %) Windows 2 23 (58.97 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (53.85 %) Active Directory 3 21 (53.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 20 (51.28 %) VMware 5 19 (48.72 %) Microsoft 6 18 (46.15 %) Citrix 7 13 (33.33 %) MS Office 7 13 (33.33 %) Windows XP 8 12 (30.77 %) Cisco 8 12 (30.77 %) TCP/IP 9 11 (28.21 %) SAN 9 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server 9 11 (28.21 %) Windows 2000 10 10 (25.64 %) Firewall

10 10 (25.64 %) DNS 10 10 (25.64 %) Cisco PIX 10 10 (25.64 %) Network Design 11 9 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 8 (20.51 %) Video Conferencing 12 8 (20.51 %) Novell 12 8 (20.51 %) Back Office 12 8 (20.51 %) Service Delivery 13 7 (17.95 %) Government 13 7 (17.95 %) MS Excel 14 6 (15.38 %) LAN 14 6 (15.38 %) WAN 14 6 (15.38 %) DHCP 14 6 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 14 6 (15.38 %) ZENworks

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 21 (53.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint 2 3 (7.692 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 2 (5.128 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (5.128 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (2.564 %) IIS 4 1 (2.564 %) CMS	Applications 1 13 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 7 (17.95 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (30.77 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (28.21 %) SAN 3 10 (25.64 %) Firewall 3 10 (25.64 %) DNS 3 10 (25.64 %) Cisco PIX 4 6 (15.38 %) LAN 4 6 (15.38 %) WAN 4 6 (15.38 %) DHCP 5 3 (7.692 %) VoIP 6 1 (2.564 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (2.564 %) Nortel Meridian 6 1 (2.564 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server
General 1 8 (20.51 %) Back Office 2 7 (17.95 %) Government 3 2 (5.128 %) Finance 4 1 (2.564 %) Construction 4 1 (2.564 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 13 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 2 11 (28.21 %) Support Engineer 3 10 (25.64 %) Systems Engineer 4 7 (17.95 %) 3rd Line Support 5 5 (12.82 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 5 (12.82 %) Systems Support 6 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Engineer 7 3 (7.692 %) Support Technician 7 3 (7.692 %) IT Support Engineer 7 3 (7.692 %) Systems Support Engineer 8 2 (5.128 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 8 2 (5.128 %) PC Support 8 2 (5.128 %) Desktop Analyst 8 2 (5.128 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (5.128 %) Analyst 8 2 (5.128 %) Desktop Support Analyst 8 2 (5.128 %) 2nd Line Support 9 1 (2.564 %) IT Support Technician 9 1 (2.564 %) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (20.51 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (5.128 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.564 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.564 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.564 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 29 (74.36 %) Windows 2 23 (58.97 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (33.33 %) Windows XP 4 11 (28.21 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (5.128 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.564 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (25.64 %) Network Design 2 8 (20.51 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (12.82 %) ITIL 5 4 (10.26 %) CTC Cleared 6 2 (5.128 %) Data Management 7 1 (2.564 %) DV Cleared 7 1 (2.564 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (2.564 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (2.564 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.128 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 6 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (12.82 %) MCSE 3 2 (5.128 %) CCA 3 2 (5.128 %) Citrix Certification 3 2 (5.128 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 21 (53.85 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) NetBackup 3 2 (5.128 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (2.564 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (2.564 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (2.564 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (2.564 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 6 (15.38 %) ZENworks 2 1 (2.564 %) MOM 2 1 (2.564 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 20 (51.28 %) VMware 2 19 (48.72 %) Microsoft 3 18 (46.15 %) Citrix 4 12 (30.77 %) Cisco 5 8 (20.51 %) Novell 6 3 (7.692 %) Lotus 7 2 (5.128 %) Avaya 7 2 (5.128 %) HP 7 2 (5.128 %) Dell 8 1 (2.564 %) EMC 8 1 (2.564 %) Intel 8 1 (2.564 %) Nortel 8 1 (2.564 %) NetApp 8 1 (2.564 %) Siemens 8 1 (2.564 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (2.564 %) Kaspersky