Oxfordshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Oxfordshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	31
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	25	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	20.59 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£200
Average daily rate	£250	£230
% change on same period last year	+8.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£281
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.46	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£21.53	£23.83
% change on same period last year	-9.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.60	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.12	£20.95
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Application Platforms Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	100	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	19	15
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£301
Average daily rate	£360	£321
% change on same period last year	+12.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.26	£25.57
Average hourly rate	£23.22	£27.22
% change on same period last year	-14.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£28.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Exchange Server 2003 South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Oxfordshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Oxfordshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Oxfordshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Oxfordshire 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	Oxford	-1	15	£250	+8.69 %
2	Banbury	+2	1	-	-
2	Abingdon	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 35 (85.37 %) Windows 2 22 (53.66 %) Active Directory 3 21 (51.22 %) MS Exchange 4 18 (43.90 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 16 (39.02 %) Microsoft 6 13 (31.71 %) TCP/IP 7 10 (24.39 %) Windows 2000 8 9 (21.95 %) Windows Server 2003 8 9 (21.95 %) WAN 8 9 (21.95 %) LAN 9 8 (19.51 %) SharePoint 9 8 (19.51 %) SQL Server 9 8 (19.51 %) Citrix 10 7 (17.07 %) Windows NT 10 7 (17.07 %) ITIL

11 6 (14.63 %) Linux 11 6 (14.63 %) SMS 11 6 (14.63 %) DNS 11 6 (14.63 %) Cisco 11 6 (14.63 %) Microsoft Certification 11 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2000 12 5 (12.20 %) Symantec 12 5 (12.20 %) Windows XP 12 5 (12.20 %) MCSE 12 5 (12.20 %) SQL 13 4 (9.756 %) Firewall 13 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel 13 4 (9.756 %) VPN 13 4 (9.756 %) Internet 13 4 (9.756 %) Red Hat

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 21 (51.22 %) MS Exchange 2 18 (43.90 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (19.51 %) SharePoint 4 3 (7.317 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 3 (7.317 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (7.317 %) IIS 4 3 (7.317 %) Apache 5 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Applications 1 4 (9.756 %) MS Excel 2 3 (7.317 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 13 (31.71 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (21.95 %) LAN 2 9 (21.95 %) WAN 3 6 (14.63 %) SMS 3 6 (14.63 %) DNS 4 4 (9.756 %) VPN 4 4 (9.756 %) Internet 4 4 (9.756 %) Firewall 5 3 (7.317 %) Wireless 5 3 (7.317 %) ADSL 6 2 (4.878 %) ISDN 6 2 (4.878 %) DHCP 7 1 (2.439 %) VoIP 7 1 (2.439 %) WLAN 7 1 (2.439 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (2.439 %) Cisco IPT 7 1 (2.439 %) Network Security 7 1 (2.439 %) WINS 7 1 (2.439 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (19.51 %) SQL Server 2 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 2 (4.878 %) Back Office 2 1 (2.439 %) Education 2 1 (2.439 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 19 (46.34 %) Support Engineer 2 10 (24.39 %) 3rd Line Support 2 10 (24.39 %) 2nd Line Support 2 10 (24.39 %) Server Support 3 8 (19.51 %) Support Technician 3 8 (19.51 %) Server Engineer 3 8 (19.51 %) Server Support Engineer 4 6 (14.63 %) Administrator 4 6 (14.63 %) Systems Administrator 5 5 (12.20 %) Systems Engineer 5 5 (12.20 %) Systems Support 5 5 (12.20 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 4 (9.756 %) Desktop Support 7 3 (7.317 %) Analyst 8 2 (4.878 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (4.878 %) Technical Support 8 2 (4.878 %) Technical Support Engineer 8 2 (4.878 %) Consultant 8 2 (4.878 %) Technical Engineer 8 2 (4.878 %) Server Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.439 %) Blackberry 1 1 (2.439 %) Replication 1 1 (2.439 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 35 (85.37 %) Windows 2 10 (24.39 %) Windows 2000 3 9 (21.95 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (17.07 %) Windows NT 5 6 (14.63 %) Linux 6 5 (12.20 %) Windows XP 7 1 (2.439 %) SUSE 7 1 (2.439 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.07 %) ITIL 2 3 (7.317 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (4.878 %) Data Security 3 2 (4.878 %) Migration 4 1 (2.439 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (2.439 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 5 (12.20 %) SQL 2 3 (7.317 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 6 (14.63 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (12.20 %) MCSE 3 3 (7.317 %) MCSA 3 3 (7.317 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (4.878 %) MCT 5 1 (2.439 %) MCP 5 1 (2.439 %) RHCT	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) SLA
System Software 1 22 (53.66 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.439 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (2.439 %) ISA Server 2 1 (2.439 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 3 (7.317 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 16 (39.02 %) Microsoft 2 8 (19.51 %) Citrix 3 6 (14.63 %) Cisco 4 5 (12.20 %) Symantec 5 4 (9.756 %) Red Hat 6 3 (7.317 %) CheckPoint 7 2 (4.878 %) VERITAS 8 1 (2.439 %) Agresso 8 1 (2.439 %) IBM 8 1 (2.439 %) HP 8 1 (2.439 %) Dell 8 1 (2.439 %) VMware