North West MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 jobs that have cited MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	61
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	73	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	11.48 %	12.57 %
Daily rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£167
Average daily rate	£300	£175
% change on same period last year	+71.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£183
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.13	£14.18
Average hourly rate	£19.31	£15.18
% change on same period last year	+27.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.49	£16.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms North West
Matching contract IT job ads	636	573
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.816 %	0.644 %
Daily rates quoted	153	112
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£286
Average daily rate	£379	£299
% change on same period last year	+26.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.60	£18.88
Average hourly rate	£24.35	£20.04
% change on same period last year	+21.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.10	£21.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the North West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the North West region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the North West region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the North West region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	-24	27	£239	+41.48 %
2	Cheshire	-12	25	£330	-
3	Merseyside	-6	9	£390	-
4	Lancashire	-	6	-	-
5	Cumbria	0	1	-	-

MS Exchange England

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 94 (70.15 %) Windows 2 87 (64.93 %) Microsoft 3 53 (39.55 %) MS Office 4 50 (37.31 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 47 (35.07 %) Active Directory 6 40 (29.85 %) Windows 2000 7 36 (26.87 %) MS Excel 7 36 (26.87 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 30 (22.39 %) Windows XP 9 19 (14.18 %) Citrix 10 17 (12.69 %) Microsoft Certification 10 17 (12.69 %) Cisco 11 15 (11.19 %) Windows NT 11 15 (11.19 %) MCSE 12 13 (9.701 %) Windows Server 2003

12 13 (9.701 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 12 (8.955 %) LAN 13 12 (8.955 %) WAN 14 10 (7.463 %) VPN 14 10 (7.463 %) WebServices 14 10 (7.463 %) ITIL 14 10 (7.463 %) Migration 15 9 (6.716 %) AS400 15 9 (6.716 %) XML 15 9 (6.716 %) OO 15 9 (6.716 %) Java 15 9 (6.716 %) J2EE 15 9 (6.716 %) Ethernet 15 9 (6.716 %) OOD 15 9 (6.716 %) SOA

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (7.463 %) WebServices 2 9 (6.716 %) XML 2 9 (6.716 %) J2EE 3 6 (4.478 %) HTML 4 4 (2.985 %) .NET 4 4 (2.985 %) CSS 4 4 (2.985 %) Servlets 5 3 (2.239 %) AJAX 6 2 (1.493 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (0.746 %) MAPI	Application Platforms 1 50 (37.31 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 36 (26.87 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 13 (9.701 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 7 (5.224 %) IIS 5 6 (4.478 %) SharePoint 6 5 (3.731 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 4 (2.985 %) GroupWise 8 3 (2.239 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 3 (2.239 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (1.493 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 1 (0.746 %) Lotus Domino 10 1 (0.746 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 53 (39.55 %) MS Office 2 36 (26.87 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.493 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.746 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 1 (0.746 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 12 (8.955 %) LAN 1 12 (8.955 %) WAN 2 10 (7.463 %) VPN 3 9 (6.716 %) Ethernet 4 8 (5.970 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (5.970 %) Firewall 5 5 (3.731 %) DHCP 5 5 (3.731 %) WINS 6 4 (2.985 %) DNS 6 4 (2.985 %) HTTP 7 3 (2.239 %) SAN 8 2 (1.493 %) Broadband 8 2 (1.493 %) iSCSI 9 1 (0.746 %) ADSL 9 1 (0.746 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (0.746 %) Cisco PIX 9 1 (0.746 %) Network Security 9 1 (0.746 %) DMZ 9 1 (0.746 %) Internet 9 1 (0.746 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.239 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.493 %) EDRMS 3 1 (0.746 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (0.746 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (0.746 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (0.746 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 3 (2.239 %) Oracle Forms 1 3 (2.239 %) Subversion 2 2 (1.493 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 6 (4.478 %) Finance 1 6 (4.478 %) Billing 2 5 (3.731 %) Legal 3 3 (2.239 %) Government 3 3 (2.239 %) Health 3 3 (2.239 %) Law 3 3 (2.239 %) Construction 4 2 (1.493 %) Education 4 2 (1.493 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.746 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.746 %) Banking 5 1 (0.746 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.746 %) Marketing 5 1 (0.746 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 38 (28.36 %) Analyst 2 20 (14.93 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 18 (13.43 %) Support Engineer 4 15 (11.19 %) Support Analyst 5 10 (7.463 %) 2nd Line Support 5 10 (7.463 %) Systems Engineer 5 10 (7.463 %) Systems Support 6 9 (6.716 %) Administrator 7 8 (5.970 %) Desktop Support 7 8 (5.970 %) Systems Support Engineer 8 7 (5.224 %) Desktop Analyst 8 7 (5.224 %) Server Support 8 7 (5.224 %) 3rd Line Support 8 7 (5.224 %) Support Specialist 9 6 (4.478 %) Network Engineer 9 6 (4.478 %) Developer 9 6 (4.478 %) Helpdesk Support 10 5 (3.731 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 10 5 (3.731 %) Technical Support 10 5 (3.731 %) IT Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.716 %) AS400 2 8 (5.970 %) Dutch Language 2 8 (5.970 %) Blackberry 2 8 (5.970 %) German Language 3 7 (5.224 %) French Language 3 7 (5.224 %) NHS 4 5 (3.731 %) Thin Client 4 5 (3.731 %) Fat Client 5 4 (2.985 %) Italian Language 5 4 (2.985 %) Spanish Language 5 4 (2.985 %) Finnish Language 5 4 (2.985 %) Danish Language 6 3 (2.239 %) RIA 7 2 (1.493 %) Management Information System 8 1 (0.746 %) Swedish Language
Operating Systems 1 94 (70.15 %) Windows 2 40 (29.85 %) Windows 2000 3 30 (22.39 %) Windows XP 4 15 (11.19 %) Windows NT 5 13 (9.701 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (2.985 %) Unix 7 2 (1.493 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.746 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.746 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (7.463 %) ITIL 1 10 (7.463 %) Migration 2 9 (6.716 %) OO 2 9 (6.716 %) OOD 2 9 (6.716 %) SOA 3 7 (5.224 %) Project Management 4 4 (2.985 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (2.985 %) Disaster Recovery 5 3 (2.239 %) Security Management 5 3 (2.239 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (2.239 %) TDD 5 3 (2.239 %) Document Management 5 3 (2.239 %) e-GIF 6 2 (1.493 %) PRINCE 6 2 (1.493 %) Service Management 6 2 (1.493 %) Workflow 6 2 (1.493 %) Validation 6 2 (1.493 %) Information Security 6 2 (1.493 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (1.493 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 9 (6.716 %) Java 2 7 (5.224 %) SQL 3 6 (4.478 %) JavaScript 4 1 (0.746 %) VBScript 4 1 (0.746 %) VB	Qualifications 1 17 (12.69 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (11.19 %) MCSE 3 5 (3.731 %) CCA 3 5 (3.731 %) Citrix Certification 3 5 (3.731 %) CCEA 4 3 (2.239 %) Novell Certification 4 3 (2.239 %) Degree 5 2 (1.493 %) MCP 5 2 (1.493 %) CNE 5 2 (1.493 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (1.493 %) CCNA 6 1 (0.746 %) CNA 6 1 (0.746 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.731 %) SLA 2 3 (2.239 %) WCAG 2 3 (2.239 %) WAI	System Software 1 47 (35.07 %) Active Directory 2 7 (5.224 %) ISA Server 3 2 (1.493 %) NetBackup 3 2 (1.493 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (1.493 %) Novell eDirectory 3 2 (1.493 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.493 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (0.746 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.746 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 3 (2.239 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (2.239 %) ZENworks 2 1 (0.746 %) DameWare 2 1 (0.746 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 87 (64.93 %) Microsoft 2 19 (14.18 %) Citrix 3 17 (12.69 %) Cisco 4 8 (5.970 %) Novell 5 6 (4.478 %) Oracle 6 5 (3.731 %) LANDesk 7 4 (2.985 %) Lotus 8 3 (2.239 %) IBM 8 3 (2.239 %) HP 8 3 (2.239 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (1.493 %) Meridio 9 2 (1.493 %) Dell 9 2 (1.493 %) VERITAS 9 2 (1.493 %) Lucent 9 2 (1.493 %) NetApp 10 1 (0.746 %) Avaya 10 1 (0.746 %) Apple 10 1 (0.746 %) EMC 10 1 (0.746 %) Intel 10 1 (0.746 %) Compaq