Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2007 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 2007 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Scotland region.

 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8669101
Rank change year-on-year
Down-17Up+32
Matching contract IT job ads693
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland0.308 %0.609 %0.106 %
As % of the Application Platforms category1.705 %3.516 %0.850 %
Daily rates quoted151
Average daily rate£325£300£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-33.33 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£321£400
% change year-on-year
-6.540 %-19.75 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.50£21.50£21.00
% change year-on-year
-13.95 %+2.380 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
352256353
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland18.07 %17.33 %12.46 %
Daily rates quoted1124558
Average daily rate£310£350£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42 %+7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£181£225£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£375
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted104027
Average hourly rate£15.25£39.50£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.39 %+146.87 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.05£14.00£11.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£42.50£37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %
Exchange Server 2007 UKExchange Server 2007
UK

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.

Exchange Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Scotland Exchange Server 2007 Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Exchange Server 2007 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2007 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Exchange Server 2007 Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2007
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 2007 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EdinburghNew entry-2£325-
GlasgowDown-131--
Exchange Server 2007 UKExchange Server 2007
UK

Exchange Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007.

111 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
27 (63.64 %)SC Cleared
27 (63.64 %)Security Cleared
33 (27.27 %)Windows Server 2008
33 (27.27 %)Windows
42 (18.18 %)Backup Exec
42 (18.18 %)SQL Server 2005
42 (18.18 %)SQL Server
42 (18.18 %)IIS
42 (18.18 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (9.091 %)Intranet
51 (9.091 %)Internet
51 (9.091 %)Symantec
51 (9.091 %)MS Office
51 (9.091 %)Visual Studio
51 (9.091 %)VSS/SourceSafe
51 (9.091 %)ASP.NET
51 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery
51 (9.091 %)Wireless
51 (9.091 %)Finance
51 (9.091 %)Migration
51 (9.091 %)LAN
51 (9.091 %)WAN
51 (9.091 %)TCP/IP
51 (9.091 %)DNS
51 (9.091 %)Cisco
51 (9.091 %)Active Directory
51 (9.091 %)SAN
51 (9.091 %)C#
51 (9.091 %)HTML

Exchange Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Exchange Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (9.091 %)ASP.NET
11 (9.091 %)HTML
11 (9.091 %).NET
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
22 (18.18 %)IIS
31 (9.091 %)Exchange Server 2003
31 (9.091 %)SharePoint
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (9.091 %)MS Office
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (9.091 %)Intranet
11 (9.091 %)Internet
11 (9.091 %)Wireless
11 (9.091 %)LAN
11 (9.091 %)WAN
11 (9.091 %)TCP/IP
11 (9.091 %)DNS
11 (9.091 %)SAN
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (18.18 %)SQL Server 2005
12 (18.18 %)SQL Server
21 (9.091 %)MySQL
21 (9.091 %)SQL Server Integration Services
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (9.091 %)Visual Studio
11 (9.091 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (9.091 %)Finance
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (63.64 %)Administrator
17 (63.64 %)Exchange Administrator
21 (9.091 %)Developer
21 (9.091 %)Business Developer
21 (9.091 %)Consultant
21 (9.091 %)3rd Line Support
21 (9.091 %)Systems Developer
21 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery Consultant
21 (9.091 %)Deployment Engineer
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (27.27 %)Windows Server 2008
13 (27.27 %)Windows
22 (18.18 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (9.091 %)Windows 2000
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery
11 (9.091 %)Migration
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (9.091 %)C#
11 (9.091 %)JavaScript
11 (9.091 %)PHP
11 (9.091 %)SQL
11 (9.091 %)T-SQL
11 (9.091 %)VB.NET
11 (9.091 %)PHP5
11 (9.091 %)PowerShell
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (63.64 %)SC Cleared
17 (63.64 %)Security Cleared
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (9.091 %)Active Directory
11 (9.091 %)Hyper-V
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (18.18 %)Backup Exec
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (9.091 %)Symantec
11 (9.091 %)Cisco