The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Rank 107 91 96
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 11 19 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.714% 0.543%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.540% 4.715% 3.261%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 6
Average daily rate £135 £253 £231
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.53% +9.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £112 £150 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £428 £281
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £259 £240
% change year-on-year
+14.00% +7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +25.00%
All Application Platforms
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
433 403 460
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 17.75% 15.15% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 163 209
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.92% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Exchange Server 2003
UK

Exchange Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Scotland Exchange Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Exchange Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +4 8 £121 -61.04%
Glasgow -13 2 - -
Exchange Server 2003
UK

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 25 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 20 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (72.00%) Windows
4 17 (68.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (64.00%) VMware
6 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (36.00%) ITIL
8 9 (36.00%) Migration
9 7 (28.00%) Windows XP
9 7 (28.00%) DHCP
9 7 (28.00%) DNS
9 7 (28.00%) Internet
9 7 (28.00%) Citrix
9 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
10 6 (24.00%) vSphere
10 6 (24.00%) XenApp
10 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
10 6 (24.00%) MS Office
10 6 (24.00%) Service Delivery
10 6 (24.00%) Backup Exec
11 5 (20.00%) MCP
11 5 (20.00%) MCITP
11 5 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (16.00%) WSUS
12 4 (16.00%) Veeam
12 4 (16.00%) SQL

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 25 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 17 (68.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (12.00%) Lync
5 2 (8.000%) Apache
5 2 (8.000%) IIS
6 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (4.000%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (24.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DHCP
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
1 7 (28.00%) Internet
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) LDAP
3 2 (8.000%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (4.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Administrator
2 6 (24.00%) IT Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Administrator
4 4 (16.00%) IT Support
4 4 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Senior Desktop Support
5 2 (8.000%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Desktop Support
5 2 (8.000%) Server Support
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (12.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.000%) Handset
4 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (28.00%) Windows XP
3 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (16.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
1 9 (36.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.000%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.00%) MCP
2 5 (20.00%) MCITP
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (12.00%) MCTS
4 3 (12.00%) MCSE
4 3 (12.00%) MCSA
5 2 (8.000%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (4.000%) Degree
6 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (24.00%) vSphere
3 6 (24.00%) XenApp
4 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (8.000%) VMware ESX
6 1 (4.000%) ISA Server
6 1 (4.000%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Backup Exec
2 4 (16.00%) WSUS
3 3 (12.00%) MOM
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) SCOM
4 2 (8.000%) PureDisk
4 2 (8.000%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) VMware
2 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) Citrix
4 4 (16.00%) Veeam
5 3 (12.00%) CommVault
6 2 (8.000%) Cisco
6 2 (8.000%) IBM
6 2 (8.000%) Nortel
6 2 (8.000%) HP
6 2 (8.000%) Altiris
7 1 (4.000%) Dell
7 1 (4.000%) Symantec
7 1 (4.000%) Lotus