Oxford MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Oxford 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kent Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	32
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	21	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	23.60 %	6.579 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£233	-
Average daily rate	£267	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£302
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£11.75
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£13.13
% change on same period last year	+101.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.04	£18.62
% change on same period last year	+2.25 %
Application Platforms Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	89	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.077 %
Daily rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£302
Average daily rate	£363	£336
% change on same period last year	+7.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.33	£14.46
Average hourly rate	£22.67	£16.08
% change on same period last year	+40.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.01	£17.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
MS Exchange Oxfordshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Oxford 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the Oxford region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 25 (78.13 %) Windows 2 21 (65.63 %) Active Directory 3 18 (56.25 %) Microsoft 3 18 (56.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 10 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 5 9 (28.13 %) VMware 5 9 (28.13 %) Windows XP 6 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft Certification 6 7 (21.88 %) MCSE 6 7 (21.88 %) MS Excel 7 6 (18.75 %) Linux 7 6 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 7 6 (18.75 %) SQL 7 6 (18.75 %) LAN 7 6 (18.75 %) WAN

7 6 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 7 6 (18.75 %) DNS 8 5 (15.63 %) Cisco 8 5 (15.63 %) Citrix 8 5 (15.63 %) Symantec 8 5 (15.63 %) WSUS 9 4 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 9 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 9 4 (12.50 %) MS Office 9 4 (12.50 %) ITIL 9 4 (12.50 %) MCSA 10 3 (9.375 %) Windows NT 10 3 (9.375 %) SAP 10 3 (9.375 %) DHCP 10 3 (9.375 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms 1 18 (56.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (9.375 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (6.250 %) IIS 3 2 (6.250 %) Apache 3 2 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 7 (21.88 %) MS Excel 2 4 (12.50 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (18.75 %) LAN 1 6 (18.75 %) WAN 1 6 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 1 6 (18.75 %) DNS 2 3 (9.375 %) Firewall 2 3 (9.375 %) IP Telephony 2 3 (9.375 %) DHCP 3 2 (6.250 %) VPN 3 2 (6.250 %) SAN 3 2 (6.250 %) Internet 3 2 (6.250 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 2 (6.250 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 8 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.88 %) Support Analyst 2 7 (21.88 %) 3rd Line Support 3 5 (15.63 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 4 (12.50 %) Server Support 5 3 (9.375 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (9.375 %) Server Engineer 5 3 (9.375 %) Server Support Engineer 6 2 (6.250 %) Server Support Technician 6 2 (6.250 %) Support Manager 6 2 (6.250 %) IT Support Manager 6 2 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 2 (6.250 %) Administrator 6 2 (6.250 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (6.250 %) Support Technician 6 2 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (6.250 %) IT Manager 7 1 (3.125 %) Systems Engineer 7 1 (3.125 %) Systems Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.250 %) Blackberry 1 2 (6.250 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 25 (78.13 %) Windows 2 10 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (28.13 %) Windows XP 4 6 (18.75 %) Linux 4 6 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (9.375 %) Windows NT 6 1 (3.125 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 3 (9.375 %) Service Management 3 2 (6.250 %) Migration 3 2 (6.250 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 6 (18.75 %) SQL 2 2 (6.250 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 7 (21.88 %) MCSE 1 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (12.50 %) MCSA 2 4 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (6.250 %) MCP 3 2 (6.250 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.250 %) SLA
System Software 1 21 (65.63 %) Active Directory 2 3 (9.375 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (6.250 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (6.250 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 5 (15.63 %) WSUS 2 3 (9.375 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 18 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 9 (28.13 %) VMware 3 5 (15.63 %) Symantec 3 5 (15.63 %) Cisco 3 5 (15.63 %) Citrix 4 3 (9.375 %) SAP 5 2 (6.250 %) Red Hat 5 2 (6.250 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (6.250 %) IBM 6 1 (3.125 %) Dell 6 1 (3.125 %) Lotus