The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Peterborough 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 16 7 29
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +22
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 4 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 3.419% 11.83% 2.000%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.67% 68.75% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £223 £205 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.53% -41.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% +22.58%
All Application Platforms
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
15 16 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 12.82% 17.20% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 18
Average daily rate £225 £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -31.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £205 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £335 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
MS Exchange
Cambridgeshire

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
3 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) Altiris
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (28.57%) Citrix
5 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) Wireless
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) VMware
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (14.29%) Intranet
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) ARCserve
6 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 1 (14.29%) LAN
6 1 (14.29%) WAN

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 1 (14.29%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Lync
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Intranet
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Support Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Altiris
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Intel
4 1 (14.29%) Exinda
4 1 (14.29%) Riverbed