North West Exchange Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Exchange Server 2000 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Barking Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	112
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	23	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	3.418 %	3.678 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£173
Average daily rate	£275	£173
% change on same period last year	+58.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£173
UK excluding London average daily rate	£268	£248
% change on same period last year	+7.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.09	£15.25
Average hourly rate	£16.59	£17.03
% change on same period last year	-2.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.09	£18.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.66	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+5.65 %
Application Platforms North West
Matching contract IT job ads	673	571
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.887 %	0.606 %
Daily rates quoted	161	99
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£284
Average daily rate	£367	£295
% change on same period last year	+24.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	76	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.33	£21.89
Average hourly rate	£24.34	£24.13
% change on same period last year	+0.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.36	£26.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Exchange Server 2000 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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the North West region.

Exchange Server 2000
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the North West region.

Exchange Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Exchange Server 2000 within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Manchester	-18	15	£250	+56.25 %
Cheshire	-18	4	£300	-
Lancashire	+5	3	-	-
Merseyside	-	1	-	-

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Exchange Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000.

1 37 (86.05 %) Windows 2 35 (81.40 %) MS Exchange 3 31 (72.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 23 (53.49 %) Microsoft 5 18 (41.86 %) Active Directory 6 15 (34.88 %) Windows 2000 7 11 (25.58 %) MS Excel 7 11 (25.58 %) Cisco 8 10 (23.26 %) Windows NT 9 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft Certification 9 9 (20.93 %) MCSE 9 9 (20.93 %) Citrix 9 9 (20.93 %) WAN 9 9 (20.93 %) LAN 10 8 (18.60 %) Windows XP

10 8 (18.60 %) MS Office 10 8 (18.60 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 6 (13.95 %) Unix 11 6 (13.95 %) VPN 12 5 (11.63 %) Ethernet 12 5 (11.63 %) NetWare 12 5 (11.63 %) CCA 12 5 (11.63 %) Citrix Certification 12 5 (11.63 %) CCEA 12 5 (11.63 %) IIS 12 5 (11.63 %) HP 12 5 (11.63 %) Thin Client 12 5 (11.63 %) ISA Server 12 5 (11.63 %) AS400 12 5 (11.63 %) Billing

Exchange Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 35 (81.40 %) MS Exchange 2 31 (72.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (18.60 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 5 (11.63 %) IIS 5 3 (6.977 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 11 (25.58 %) MS Excel 2 8 (18.60 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 2 (4.651 %) SAP SD	Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.93 %) LAN 1 9 (20.93 %) WAN 2 6 (13.95 %) VPN 3 5 (11.63 %) Ethernet 4 4 (9.302 %) Firewall 5 2 (4.651 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (4.651 %) DNS 6 1 (2.326 %) SAN 6 1 (2.326 %) Internet 6 1 (2.326 %) DSL 6 1 (2.326 %) SMS 6 1 (2.326 %) ADSL 6 1 (2.326 %) Broadband 6 1 (2.326 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 5 (11.63 %) Billing 2 1 (2.326 %) Finance 2 1 (2.326 %) Government 2 1 (2.326 %) Health
Job Titles 1 10 (23.26 %) Systems Support 1 10 (23.26 %) Support Specialist 2 8 (18.60 %) Analyst 3 6 (13.95 %) Systems Engineer 4 5 (11.63 %) IT Support Specialist 4 5 (11.63 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 5 (11.63 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (9.302 %) 2nd Line Support 5 4 (9.302 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 3 (6.977 %) Administrator 6 3 (6.977 %) Network Engineer 6 3 (6.977 %) Technical Services Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) Service Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) Technical Manager 7 2 (4.651 %) SAP Support 7 2 (4.651 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (4.651 %) Technical Support 7 2 (4.651 %) Applications Support 7 2 (4.651 %) Citrix Administrator 8 1 (2.326 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.63 %) Thin Client 1 5 (11.63 %) AS400 1 5 (11.63 %) Fat Client 2 4 (9.302 %) German Language 3 3 (6.977 %) Dutch Language 4 2 (4.651 %) French Language 4 2 (4.651 %) Management Information System 4 2 (4.651 %) Clustering 5 1 (2.326 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 37 (86.05 %) Windows 2 15 (34.88 %) Windows 2000 3 10 (23.26 %) Windows NT 4 8 (18.60 %) Windows XP 5 6 (13.95 %) Unix 6 5 (11.63 %) NetWare 7 4 (9.302 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (9.302 %) Solaris 8 2 (4.651 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.302 %) ITIL 1 4 (9.302 %) Disaster Recovery 1 4 (9.302 %) Security Management 2 3 (6.977 %) Resource Management 3 2 (4.651 %) ISMS 3 2 (4.651 %) Change Management 3 2 (4.651 %) Migration 3 2 (4.651 %) Information Security 3 2 (4.651 %) Technical Architecture 3 2 (4.651 %) Information Security Management 3 2 (4.651 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.326 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.326 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (9.302 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (20.93 %) MCSE 1 9 (20.93 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (11.63 %) CCA 2 5 (11.63 %) Citrix Certification 2 5 (11.63 %) CCEA 3 2 (4.651 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (4.651 %) CCNA 3 2 (4.651 %) Degree 4 1 (2.326 %) MCP 4 1 (2.326 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.977 %) QA	System Software 1 18 (41.86 %) Active Directory 2 5 (11.63 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (2.326 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (2.326 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 23 (53.49 %) Microsoft 2 11 (25.58 %) Cisco 3 9 (20.93 %) Citrix 4 5 (11.63 %) HP 5 4 (9.302 %) LANDesk 6 3 (6.977 %) Intel 7 2 (4.651 %) Lucent 7 2 (4.651 %) SAP 8 1 (2.326 %) Oracle 8 1 (2.326 %) IBM 8 1 (2.326 %) Siemens 8 1 (2.326 %) Symantec 8 1 (2.326 %) Fujitsu Siemens 8 1 (2.326 %) Compaq