Shropshire MS Exchange Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the Shropshire 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 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	23
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	15.15 %	21.21 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£210	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£220	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£300
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£28.33
Average hourly rate	£20.75	£32.17
% change on same period last year	-35.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.25	£18.92
% change on same period last year	+12.28 %
Application Platforms Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	33	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.033 %
Daily rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£341
Average daily rate	£310	£408
% change on same period last year	-24.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£339
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.33	£36.33
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£41.10
% change on same period last year	-54.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.67	£45.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.54	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
MS Exchange West Midlands

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Exchange across the Shropshire 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 IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the Shropshire region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Telford	-7	5	£210	-

MS Exchange West Midlands

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 10 (76.92 %) Active Directory 2 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 2 7 (53.85 %) Migration 2 7 (53.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (46.15 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 6 (46.15 %) Windows 4 5 (38.46 %) VB 4 5 (38.46 %) MS Excel 4 5 (38.46 %) Data Migration 5 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 4 (30.77 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (30.77 %) NetWare 5 4 (30.77 %) Lotus 5 4 (30.77 %) GroupWise

6 3 (23.08 %) SAN 6 3 (23.08 %) Cisco 6 3 (23.08 %) LDAP 6 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 6 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (23.08 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (23.08 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (15.38 %) Novell 7 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 7 2 (15.38 %) LAN 7 2 (15.38 %) WAN 7 2 (15.38 %) SQL 7 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint 7 2 (15.38 %) MS Office

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 (7.692 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 7 (53.85 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (46.15 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 4 (30.77 %) Lotus Notes 3 4 (30.77 %) GroupWise 3 4 (30.77 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (23.08 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (38.46 %) MS Excel 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (23.08 %) LDAP 1 3 (23.08 %) SAN 2 2 (15.38 %) LAN 2 2 (15.38 %) WAN 3 1 (7.692 %) DHCP 3 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (7.692 %) DNS 3 1 (7.692 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) Migration Engineer 2 3 (23.08 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Consultant 3 2 (15.38 %) Migration Consultant 3 2 (15.38 %) Data Consultant 3 2 (15.38 %) Data Migration Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Designer 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Migration Technician 4 1 (7.692 %) Support Technician 4 1 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 6 (46.15 %) Windows 2 4 (30.77 %) NetWare 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 4 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 5 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (7.692 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (53.85 %) Migration 2 5 (38.46 %) Data Migration 3 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (23.08 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (7.692 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (7.692 %) Release Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (38.46 %) VB 2 2 (15.38 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) ISO17799 1 1 (7.692 %) BS7799 1 1 (7.692 %) QA	System Software 1 10 (76.92 %) Active Directory 2 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (7.692 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) Legato 1 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 2 4 (30.77 %) Lotus 3 3 (23.08 %) Cisco 4 2 (15.38 %) Novell 5 1 (7.692 %) Sophos 5 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 5 1 (7.692 %) NetApp