MS Exchange Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 61 65 55
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -10
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 58 69 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.488% 2.218% 2.590%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.04% 11.79% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 42
Average daily rate £240 £268 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.28% -7.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £159 £138 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+10.09% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +81.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.70 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.93 £30.00 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- +9.37%
Search 62 MS Exchange jobs in the North West
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 413 585 492
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.72% 18.80% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 300 261
Average daily rate £300 £318 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -7.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 34
Average hourly rate £19.25 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.70 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
MS Exchange
England

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West MS Exchange Daily Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West MS Exchange Hourly Rate Histogram

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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +2 24 £234 +4.00%
Cheshire +12 19 £252 -
Lancashire +5 9 £288 -4.16%
Merseyside -13 2 - -
MS Exchange
England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 121 (77.07%) Windows
2 104 (66.24%) Active Directory
3 82 (52.23%) Windows Server 2008
4 75 (47.77%) Microsoft
5 73 (46.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 57 (36.31%) Windows Server 2003
7 53 (33.76%) Citrix
8 52 (33.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 49 (31.21%) VMware
10 39 (24.84%) Exchange Server 2003
10 39 (24.84%) ITIL
11 34 (21.66%) Windows XP
12 32 (20.38%) Cisco
13 30 (19.11%) MS Excel
13 30 (19.11%) Migration
14 29 (18.47%) SQL
15 27 (17.20%) vSphere
16 21 (13.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (13.38%) VPN
16 21 (13.38%) SCOM
16 21 (13.38%) Hyper-V
17 19 (12.10%) Incident Management
18 18 (11.46%) SCCM
18 18 (11.46%) DNS
18 18 (11.46%) LAN
18 18 (11.46%) WAN
18 18 (11.46%) SAN
18 18 (11.46%) Firewall
19 17 (10.83%) SLA
19 17 (10.83%) C

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Development
1 5 (3.185%) COM
1 5 (3.185%) .NET
2 4 (2.548%) Application Packaging
3 2 (1.274%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.637%) HTML5
4 1 (0.637%) CSS3
4 1 (0.637%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.637%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 73 (46.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 52 (33.12%) Exchange Server 2007
3 39 (24.84%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (10.19%) SharePoint
5 12 (7.643%) IIS
6 11 (7.006%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 8 (5.096%) SAS
8 5 (3.185%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (3.185%) Lotus Notes
9 3 (1.911%) Lync
9 3 (1.911%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 30 (19.11%) MS Excel
2 17 (10.83%) MS Office
3 3 (1.911%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.637%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.38%) VPN
2 18 (11.46%) DNS
2 18 (11.46%) LAN
2 18 (11.46%) WAN
2 18 (11.46%) SAN
2 18 (11.46%) Firewall
3 15 (9.554%) TCP/IP
3 15 (9.554%) DHCP
4 12 (7.643%) SMTP
5 10 (6.369%) Internet
6 8 (5.096%) iSCSI
6 8 (5.096%) NAS
6 8 (5.096%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (3.822%) Wireless
8 5 (3.185%) WLAN
9 4 (2.548%) VLAN
9 4 (2.548%) NetScreen
10 3 (1.911%) VoIP
10 3 (1.911%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.274%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.911%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (1.274%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.274%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.274%) DB2
4 1 (0.637%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.274%) MSI
General
1 9 (5.732%) Finance
2 7 (4.459%) Banking
3 4 (2.548%) Manufacturing
4 3 (1.911%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.274%) Legal
6 1 (0.637%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.637%) Retail
6 1 (0.637%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (15.92%) Analyst
2 17 (10.83%) Consultant
2 17 (10.83%) IT Support
3 15 (9.554%) Help Desk Support
4 13 (8.280%) 3rd Line Support
5 12 (7.643%) Desktop Support
5 12 (7.643%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (7.006%) Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (6.369%) Technical Manager
7 10 (6.369%) Help Desk Analyst
7 10 (6.369%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.732%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.096%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.459%) Messaging Engineer
10 7 (4.459%) Exchange Engineer
10 7 (4.459%) Service Manager
10 7 (4.459%) Project Engineer
11 6 (3.822%) Technical Services Manager
11 6 (3.822%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.822%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Statistics
2 15 (9.554%) Blackberry
3 13 (8.280%) Clustering
4 8 (5.096%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.459%) NHS
6 4 (2.548%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.548%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.911%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.637%) iPad
8 1 (0.637%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.637%) CLARiiON
8 1 (0.637%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 121 (77.07%) Windows
2 82 (52.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 57 (36.31%) Windows Server 2003
4 34 (21.66%) Windows XP
5 14 (8.917%) Windows NT
6 10 (6.369%) Windows 7
7 8 (5.096%) UNIX
7 8 (5.096%) Linux
8 6 (3.822%) AIX
9 5 (3.185%) Apple iOS
9 5 (3.185%) Windows 2000 Server
10 4 (2.548%) VMS
11 3 (1.911%) Windows 2000
12 2 (1.274%) Solaris
13 1 (0.637%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.637%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.637%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.84%) ITIL
2 30 (19.11%) Migration
3 19 (12.10%) Incident Management
4 15 (9.554%) Project Management
5 14 (8.917%) PRINCE2
6 13 (8.280%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (7.643%) Change Management
8 7 (4.459%) Capacity Management
9 6 (3.822%) Service Delivery
9 6 (3.822%) Change Control
10 5 (3.185%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (3.185%) Release Management
10 5 (3.185%) Problem Management
11 4 (2.548%) Asset Management
11 4 (2.548%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (1.911%) Service Desk Management
12 3 (1.911%) Service Management
12 3 (1.911%) Programme Management
12 3 (1.911%) Load Balancing
12 3 (1.911%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.47%) SQL
2 17 (10.83%) C
3 14 (8.917%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.548%) VB.NET
5 3 (1.911%) Perl
6 2 (1.274%) VBScript
6 2 (1.274%) VB
7 1 (0.637%) C#
7 1 (0.637%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.280%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.643%) MCSE
6 9 (5.732%) MCITP
7 8 (5.096%) MCTS
7 8 (5.096%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.096%) CCNA
8 7 (4.459%) MCP
8 7 (4.459%) MCSA
9 5 (3.185%) CCNP
10 4 (2.548%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.548%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (1.911%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.637%) VCP5
12 1 (0.637%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.637%) CCIE
12 1 (0.637%) CCSP
12 1 (0.637%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) SLA
2 14 (8.917%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.280%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.637%) BS7799
4 1 (0.637%) QA
System Software
1 104 (66.24%) Active Directory
2 27 (17.20%) vSphere
3 21 (13.38%) Hyper-V
4 16 (10.19%) XenApp
5 14 (8.917%) XenDesktop
6 12 (7.643%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (5.096%) NFS
8 4 (2.548%) XenServer
8 4 (2.548%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 3 (1.911%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.911%) Postfix
10 2 (1.274%) VMware ESX
11 1 (0.637%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.637%) Samba
11 1 (0.637%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.637%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.637%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) SCOM
2 18 (11.46%) SCCM
3 11 (7.006%) Backup Exec
4 7 (4.459%) Norton AntiVirus
5 6 (3.822%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.911%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 2 (1.274%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.637%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.637%) DameWare
8 1 (0.637%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (47.77%) Microsoft
2 53 (33.76%) Citrix
3 49 (31.21%) VMware
4 32 (20.38%) Cisco
5 15 (9.554%) NetApp
6 10 (6.369%) HP
7 9 (5.732%) Symantec
8 8 (5.096%) IronPort
9 7 (4.459%) Oracle
10 5 (3.185%) F5
10 5 (3.185%) Lotus
11 4 (2.548%) Veritas
11 4 (2.548%) Dell
12 3 (1.911%) EMC
12 3 (1.911%) Kaspersky
13 2 (1.274%) Remedy
13 2 (1.274%) SAP
14 1 (0.637%) Twitter
14 1 (0.637%) Avaya
14 1 (0.637%) Intel
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