Northern Ireland Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Northern Ireland region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	29
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	5.405 %	8.696 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£279
% change on same period last year	+12.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.33	£21.27
% change on same period last year	+9.70 %
Application Platforms Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	37	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.023 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£350
Average daily rate	£300	£433
% change on same period last year	-30.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£517
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£21.00
% change on same period last year	+61.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.63	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
Exchange Server 2003 UK

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 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Northern Ireland region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Northern Ireland region.

Exchange Server 2003
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 2003 within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
County Antrim	-4	2	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 UK

Exchange Server 2003
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 2 (100.00 %) Dell 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Exchange	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Consultant 1 2 (100.00 %) Infrastructure Consultant	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL	System Software 1 2 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Dell