The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2007 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2007 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the North West region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Rank 90 105 85
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -20
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 28 24 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.195% 0.769% 1.387%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.780% 4.040% 8.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 25
Average daily rate £240 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.52% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £268 £102
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £217
% change year-on-year
+2.80% +23.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
Average hourly rate £20.25 £16.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £12.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.54 £20.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
413 594 494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.62% 19.03% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 305 263
Average daily rate £300 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.80% -9.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £196 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 34
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.51 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.50% +0.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.70 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2007
England

Exchange Server 2007
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

North West Exchange Server 2007 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the North West region.

North West Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the North West region.

North West Exchange Server 2007 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Exchange Server 2007 Hourly Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2007
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 2007 within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +13 11 £245 -
Manchester +11 9 £214 -31.60%
Lancashire +18 6 £260 -
Exchange Server 2007
England

Exchange Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

1 53 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 43 (81.13%) Windows
3 41 (77.36%) Active Directory
4 39 (73.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 27 (50.94%) Exchange Server 2010
6 24 (45.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
8 18 (33.96%) Exchange Server 2003
9 17 (32.08%) Cisco
10 16 (30.19%) ITIL
10 16 (30.19%) SQL
10 16 (30.19%) VMware
11 15 (28.30%) vSphere
12 14 (26.42%) Migration
12 14 (26.42%) Hyper-V
12 14 (26.42%) Citrix
13 13 (24.53%) XenDesktop
14 12 (22.64%) Blackberry
15 11 (20.75%) IIS
15 11 (20.75%) Backup Exec
16 10 (18.87%) Clustering
16 10 (18.87%) SMTP
16 10 (18.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (16.98%) Windows XP
17 9 (16.98%) DNS
17 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
17 9 (16.98%) XenApp
18 8 (15.09%) Fibre Channel
18 8 (15.09%) SCOM

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.547%) .NET
2 1 (1.887%) COM
Application Platforms
1 53 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 27 (50.94%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (33.96%) Exchange Server 2003
4 11 (20.75%) IIS
5 10 (18.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 8 (15.09%) SAS
7 4 (7.547%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (5.660%) Exchange Server 5.5
9 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.434%) MS Office
2 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) SMTP
2 9 (16.98%) DNS
3 8 (15.09%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (15.09%) iSCSI
4 7 (13.21%) DHCP
5 6 (11.32%) WAN
5 6 (11.32%) LAN
6 5 (9.434%) WLAN
6 5 (9.434%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.434%) SAN
6 5 (9.434%) Firewall
7 4 (7.547%) NAS
8 3 (5.660%) Wireless
9 2 (3.774%) VoIP
10 1 (1.887%) VPN
10 1 (1.887%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.887%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.774%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 4 (7.547%) Finance
2 3 (5.660%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Technical Manager
2 9 (16.98%) Consultant
3 7 (13.21%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (13.21%) Messaging Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Service Manager
4 6 (11.32%) Technical Services Manager
4 6 (11.32%) Desktop Support
5 5 (9.434%) IT Consultant
5 5 (9.434%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (9.434%) Support Consultant
5 5 (9.434%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (9.434%) IT Support
5 5 (9.434%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (7.547%) Exchange Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (5.660%) Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.660%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) Messaging Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Blackberry
2 10 (18.87%) Clustering
3 2 (3.774%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.887%) NHS
4 1 (1.887%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 43 (81.13%) Windows
2 39 (73.58%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (45.28%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (16.98%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (1.887%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.887%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.887%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) ITIL
2 14 (26.42%) Migration
3 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
4 5 (9.434%) Project Management
4 5 (9.434%) Change Management
4 5 (9.434%) Capacity Management
5 3 (5.660%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.774%) Service Management
7 1 (1.887%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.887%) PRINCE
7 1 (1.887%) TOGAF
7 1 (1.887%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.887%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.660%) VB.NET
3 3 (5.660%) Perl
4 1 (1.887%) C
4 1 (1.887%) VBScript
4 1 (1.887%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (13.21%) MCSE
2 7 (13.21%) MCSA
3 6 (11.32%) MCITP
4 5 (9.434%) MCTS
5 2 (3.774%) MCP
6 1 (1.887%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.887%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (77.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (28.30%) vSphere
3 14 (26.42%) Hyper-V
4 13 (24.53%) XenDesktop
5 9 (16.98%) XenApp
6 8 (15.09%) NFS
7 4 (7.547%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (5.660%) Postfix
9 1 (1.887%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.887%) VMware ESX
9 1 (1.887%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.887%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.887%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.887%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Backup Exec
2 8 (15.09%) SCOM
3 3 (5.660%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (5.660%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (3.774%) SCCM
5 1 (1.887%) DameWare
5 1 (1.887%) WSUS
5 1 (1.887%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (32.08%) Cisco
3 16 (30.19%) VMware
4 14 (26.42%) Citrix
5 6 (11.32%) NetApp
6 4 (7.547%) Lotus
6 4 (7.547%) Symantec
7 3 (5.660%) IronPort
8 2 (3.774%) HP
8 2 (3.774%) EMC
8 2 (3.774%) Oracle
9 1 (1.887%) SAP
9 1 (1.887%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.887%) Sophos
9 1 (1.887%) Brocade
9 1 (1.887%) Veeam
9 1 (1.887%) Twitter
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