Reading MS Exchange Contracts

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

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	51
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	24	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	14.04 %	12.03 %
Daily rates quoted	13	5
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£336
Average daily rate	£296	£350
% change on same period last year	-15.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£27.25	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+46.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£19.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	171	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	57	26
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£329
Average daily rate	£397	£355
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
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	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Reading 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 contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the Reading region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing MS Exchange 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 MS Exchange.

1 51 (85.00 %) Microsoft 2 48 (80.00 %) Windows 3 36 (60.00 %) Active Directory 4 33 (55.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 28 (46.67 %) SQL 6 27 (45.00 %) Windows Server 2003 7 21 (35.00 %) Windows 2000 7 21 (35.00 %) Clustering 8 17 (28.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 13 (21.67 %) Replication 9 13 (21.67 %) HP 10 12 (20.00 %) MS Excel 11 11 (18.33 %) Citrix 12 9 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 13 8 (13.33 %) MCSE

13 8 (13.33 %) IIS 14 7 (11.67 %) Dell 15 6 (10.00 %) Firewall 15 6 (10.00 %) VMware 15 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 15 6 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 15 6 (10.00 %) SAN 15 6 (10.00 %) VBScript 16 5 (8.333 %) Windows XP 16 5 (8.333 %) LAN 16 5 (8.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 16 5 (8.333 %) DNS 16 5 (8.333 %) Compaq 16 5 (8.333 %) Government 17 4 (6.667 %) Validation

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (3.333 %) Software Packaging 2 1 (1.667 %) HTML 2 1 (1.667 %) .NET 2 1 (1.667 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.667 %) CSS 2 1 (1.667 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 33 (55.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 17 (28.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (13.33 %) IIS 4 4 (6.667 %) Live Communications Server 4 4 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 2 (3.333 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.667 %) Apache
Applications 1 12 (20.00 %) MS Excel 2 4 (6.667 %) MS Office 3 3 (5.000 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.667 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) SoftGrid 1 1 (1.667 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 6 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 1 6 (10.00 %) SAN 1 6 (10.00 %) Firewall 2 5 (8.333 %) DNS 2 5 (8.333 %) LAN 3 4 (6.667 %) WAN 4 3 (5.000 %) DHCP 4 3 (5.000 %) Internet 5 2 (3.333 %) VPN 5 2 (3.333 %) WINS 6 1 (1.667 %) LDAP 6 1 (1.667 %) WLAN 6 1 (1.667 %) X.500 6 1 (1.667 %) NetScreen 6 1 (1.667 %) DMZ 6 1 (1.667 %) Wireless 6 1 (1.667 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (1.667 %) DTS 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.667 %) MSI	General 1 5 (8.333 %) Government 2 3 (5.000 %) Health 3 1 (1.667 %) Publishing 3 1 (1.667 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.667 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 13 (21.67 %) 3rd Line Support 2 9 (15.00 %) Support Engineer 3 8 (13.33 %) Consultant 4 7 (11.67 %) Technical Support 5 6 (10.00 %) Analyst 6 5 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 7 4 (6.667 %) Administrator 7 4 (6.667 %) Systems Engineer 7 4 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (5.000 %) Technical Consultant 8 3 (5.000 %) Systems Administrator 8 3 (5.000 %) Messaging Specialist 9 2 (3.333 %) Technical Support Analyst 9 2 (3.333 %) Technical Analyst 9 2 (3.333 %) Exchange Consultant 9 2 (3.333 %) Security Technical Consultant 9 2 (3.333 %) Architect 9 2 (3.333 %) Developer 9 2 (3.333 %) Security Consultant 9 2 (3.333 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 21 (35.00 %) Clustering 2 13 (21.67 %) Replication 3 1 (1.667 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.667 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 48 (80.00 %) Windows 2 27 (45.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (35.00 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (8.333 %) Windows XP 5 2 (3.333 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (1.667 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.667 %) Unix 6 1 (1.667 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.667 %) Service Management 1 4 (6.667 %) Validation 2 2 (3.333 %) Migration 2 2 (3.333 %) Project Management 2 2 (3.333 %) Time Management 2 2 (3.333 %) ITIL 3 1 (1.667 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (1.667 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (1.667 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 28 (46.67 %) SQL 2 6 (10.00 %) VBScript 3 4 (6.667 %) VB 4 1 (1.667 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.667 %) C# 4 1 (1.667 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 9 (15.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (13.33 %) MCSE 3 4 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (5.000 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.667 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.667 %) MCP
System Software 1 36 (60.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.000 %) ISA Server 3 2 (3.333 %) NetBackup 3 2 (3.333 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (3.333 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (1.667 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.667 %) MailMarshal	Systems Management 1 5 (8.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (5.000 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 2 (3.333 %) BMC PATROL 4 1 (1.667 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (1.667 %) MIIS 4 1 (1.667 %) Netcool 4 1 (1.667 %) OpenView 4 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 51 (85.00 %) Microsoft 2 13 (21.67 %) HP 3 11 (18.33 %) Citrix 4 7 (11.67 %) Dell 5 6 (10.00 %) VMware 6 5 (8.333 %) Compaq 7 4 (6.667 %) Cisco 8 3 (5.000 %) IBM 8 3 (5.000 %) Sun 8 3 (5.000 %) VERITAS 9 2 (3.333 %) Lotus 9 2 (3.333 %) BMC 9 2 (3.333 %) Altiris 10 1 (1.667 %) AppSense 10 1 (1.667 %) NetApp 10 1 (1.667 %) Nokia 10 1 (1.667 %) Juniper 10 1 (1.667 %) Red Hat 10 1 (1.667 %) CheckPoint 10 1 (1.667 %) Symantec