Reading Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Reading 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 16 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 Burton-upon-Trent 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 St Albans Staffordshire 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	48
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	22	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	13.50 %	15.38 %
Daily rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£356
Average daily rate	£317	£365
% change on same period last year	-13.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£286
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£18.75
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£19.63
% change on same period last year	+32.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.08	£21.14
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	163	130
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.209 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	51	24
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£323
Average daily rate	£405	£351
% change on same period last year	+15.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.62	£17.46
Average hourly rate	£36.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+95.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Exchange Server 2003 Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Reading 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 Reading region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 37 (75.51 %) Windows 1 37 (75.51 %) Active Directory 2 31 (63.27 %) MS Exchange 3 25 (51.02 %) Microsoft 4 22 (44.90 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 21 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 6 18 (36.73 %) Windows 2000 7 16 (32.65 %) SQL 8 15 (30.61 %) Clustering 9 12 (24.49 %) MCSE 9 12 (24.49 %) Microsoft Certification 10 10 (20.41 %) Replication 11 9 (18.37 %) Cisco Certification 12 8 (16.33 %) CCNA 12 8 (16.33 %) Project Management

13 7 (14.29 %) DNS 14 6 (12.24 %) TCP/IP 14 6 (12.24 %) SMS 15 5 (10.20 %) Windows XP 15 5 (10.20 %) DHCP 15 5 (10.20 %) WINS 15 5 (10.20 %) SAN 15 5 (10.20 %) Citrix 16 4 (8.163 %) HP 16 4 (8.163 %) Compaq 16 4 (8.163 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 16 4 (8.163 %) SQL Server 16 4 (8.163 %) Government 16 4 (8.163 %) Exchange Server 5.5 16 4 (8.163 %) Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 Development 1 2 (4.082 %) .NET 1 2 (4.082 %) XML 2 1 (2.041 %) HTML 2 1 (2.041 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.041 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 31 (63.27 %) MS Exchange 2 22 (44.90 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 4 (8.163 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (8.163 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (6.122 %) IIS 5 2 (4.082 %) Live Communications Server 6 1 (2.041 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (2.041 %) Apache
Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.29 %) DNS 2 6 (12.24 %) SMS 2 6 (12.24 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (10.20 %) WINS 3 5 (10.20 %) DHCP 3 5 (10.20 %) SAN 4 3 (6.122 %) Internet 4 3 (6.122 %) Firewall 5 2 (4.082 %) X.500 5 2 (4.082 %) NetScreen 5 2 (4.082 %) WAN 5 2 (4.082 %) VPN 6 1 (2.041 %) LDAP 6 1 (2.041 %) IPX 6 1 (2.041 %) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.163 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.082 %) DTS 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 7 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (8.163 %) Government 2 1 (2.041 %) Publishing 2 1 (2.041 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 14 (28.57 %) 3rd Line Support 2 8 (16.33 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (16.33 %) Administrator 3 7 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 4 6 (12.24 %) Technical Support 4 6 (12.24 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.122 %) Server Support 5 3 (6.122 %) Analyst 5 3 (6.122 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (4.082 %) Developer 6 2 (4.082 %) Architect 6 2 (4.082 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.082 %) Messaging Specialist 6 2 (4.082 %) Messaging Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) Support Consultant 7 1 (2.041 %) Messaging Architect 7 1 (2.041 %) Senior Systems Administrator 7 1 (2.041 %) Helpdesk Engineer 7 1 (2.041 %) Infrastructure Consultant 7 1 (2.041 %) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 15 (30.61 %) Clustering 2 10 (20.41 %) Replication 3 1 (2.041 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.041 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 37 (75.51 %) Windows 2 21 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (36.73 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (10.20 %) Windows XP 5 2 (4.082 %) Linux 6 1 (2.041 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.041 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.33 %) Project Management 2 2 (4.082 %) Migration 2 2 (4.082 %) Time Management 3 1 (2.041 %) Network Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 16 (32.65 %) SQL 2 2 (4.082 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (4.082 %) VBScript 2 2 (4.082 %) C# 3 1 (2.041 %) Perl 3 1 (2.041 %) VB
Qualifications 1 12 (24.49 %) MCSE 1 12 (24.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (18.37 %) Cisco Certification 3 8 (16.33 %) CCNA	System Software 1 37 (75.51 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.082 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (4.082 %) ISA Server 2 2 (4.082 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (2.041 %) VMware Server 3 1 (2.041 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.041 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (8.163 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (4.082 %) MIIS 3 1 (2.041 %) WSUS 3 1 (2.041 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (2.041 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (2.041 %) MOM	Vendors 1 25 (51.02 %) Microsoft 2 5 (10.20 %) Citrix 3 4 (8.163 %) HP 3 4 (8.163 %) Compaq 4 3 (6.122 %) Dell 4 3 (6.122 %) VMware 4 3 (6.122 %) Sun 4 3 (6.122 %) Cisco 4 3 (6.122 %) IBM 5 2 (4.082 %) Red Hat 5 2 (4.082 %) Altiris 6 1 (2.041 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.041 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.041 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.041 %) AppSense 6 1 (2.041 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.041 %) BMC 6 1 (2.041 %) Nokia 6 1 (2.041 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.041 %) Lotus