South East Exchange Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 skills within the South East 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 2000 over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
Location Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire London Manchester Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Salisbury Scunthorpe Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	223	229
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	33	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.072 %
As % of the category below	1.908 %	2.746 %
Daily rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£222
Average daily rate	£343	£240
% change on same period last year	+42.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£227
% change on same period last year	+24.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.36	£20.88
Average hourly rate	£31.18	£21.78
% change on same period last year	+43.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£20.62
% change on same period last year	+18.58 %
Application Platforms South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1730	2622
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.283 %	2.611 %
Daily rates quoted	437	612
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£334
Average daily rate	£357	£358
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	213	311
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.64	£24.95
Average hourly rate	£26.79	£26.53
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.94	£28.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Exchange Server 2000 England

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Hampshire	+15	11	£252	+52.52 %
Berkshire	+15	10	£424	+43.55 %
Surrey	-8	5	-	-
Kent	-	3	£392	-
Buckinghamshire	+11	3	£335	-
Oxfordshire	0	2	-	-
Thames Valley	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000.

1 66 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 58 (87.88 %) Windows 3 48 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 47 (71.21 %) Windows Server 2003 5 39 (59.09 %) Active Directory 6 30 (45.45 %) Microsoft 7 27 (40.91 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 22 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 19 (28.79 %) Windows 2000 9 19 (28.79 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 16 (24.24 %) MCSE 10 16 (24.24 %) Windows XP 10 16 (24.24 %) Microsoft Certification 11 15 (22.73 %) HP 11 15 (22.73 %) Citrix

12 13 (19.70 %) SAN 12 13 (19.70 %) MS Excel 12 13 (19.70 %) MS Office 13 11 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 14 10 (15.15 %) SQL 14 10 (15.15 %) SQL Server 14 10 (15.15 %) Windows NT 14 10 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 15 9 (13.64 %) Migration 15 9 (13.64 %) Clustering 16 8 (12.12 %) VMware 16 8 (12.12 %) Finance 16 8 (12.12 %) Service Delivery 16 8 (12.12 %) WAN 16 8 (12.12 %) DNS

Exchange Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.515 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 66 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 48 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 22 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 19 (28.79 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 3 (4.545 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 3 (4.545 %) IIS 6 2 (3.030 %) Site Server
Applications 1 13 (19.70 %) MS Excel 1 13 (19.70 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 13 (19.70 %) SAN 2 10 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (12.12 %) WAN 3 8 (12.12 %) DNS 4 6 (9.091 %) DHCP 5 4 (6.061 %) SMTP 5 4 (6.061 %) LAN 6 3 (4.545 %) X.400 6 3 (4.545 %) VPN 7 2 (3.030 %) Firewall 7 2 (3.030 %) SMS 8 1 (1.515 %) Wireless Security 8 1 (1.515 %) Internet 8 1 (1.515 %) DMZ 8 1 (1.515 %) WLAN 8 1 (1.515 %) SSL 8 1 (1.515 %) VLAN 8 1 (1.515 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2 4 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 8 (12.12 %) Finance 2 5 (7.576 %) Legal 3 4 (6.061 %) Government 4 1 (1.515 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.515 %) Auditing 4 1 (1.515 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.515 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.515 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 12 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 2 11 (16.67 %) Consultant 3 10 (15.15 %) 3rd Line Support 3 10 (15.15 %) Analyst 3 10 (15.15 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (10.61 %) Exchange Consultant 5 6 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 6 5 (7.576 %) Desktop Support 7 4 (6.061 %) Server Support 7 4 (6.061 %) Technical Support 7 4 (6.061 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 8 3 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 8 3 (4.545 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 3 (4.545 %) Desktop Engineer 8 3 (4.545 %) Senior Support Analyst 8 3 (4.545 %) Technical Specialist 8 3 (4.545 %) Technical Manager 8 3 (4.545 %) Systems Engineer 8 3 (4.545 %) Technical Consultant 8 3 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (13.64 %) Clustering 2 5 (7.576 %) Blackberry 3 2 (3.030 %) Client/Server 3 2 (3.030 %) Thin Client 3 2 (3.030 %) HACMP 3 2 (3.030 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.515 %) NHS 4 1 (1.515 %) PDA 4 1 (1.515 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 58 (87.88 %) Windows 2 47 (71.21 %) Windows Server 2003 3 27 (40.91 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 19 (28.79 %) Windows 2000 5 16 (24.24 %) Windows XP 6 10 (15.15 %) Windows NT 7 7 (10.61 %) UNIX 8 6 (9.091 %) Linux 9 4 (6.061 %) NetWare 10 3 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2008 10 3 (4.545 %) Windows Vista 11 2 (3.030 %) HPUX 11 2 (3.030 %) Solaris 12 1 (1.515 %) Red Hat Linux 12 1 (1.515 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (13.64 %) Migration 3 8 (12.12 %) Service Delivery 4 6 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (6.061 %) DV Cleared 6 3 (4.545 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.030 %) Service Management 7 2 (3.030 %) Data Security 7 2 (3.030 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.030 %) Load Balancing 7 2 (3.030 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.515 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.515 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (1.515 %) Software Testing 8 1 (1.515 %) Change Management 8 1 (1.515 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 10 (15.15 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 16 (24.24 %) MCSE 1 16 (24.24 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (6.061 %) Degree 2 4 (6.061 %) MCP 2 4 (6.061 %) Cisco Certification 3 3 (4.545 %) CCNA 3 3 (4.545 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 2 (3.030 %) CCNP 5 1 (1.515 %) MCSA 5 1 (1.515 %) CCIE 5 1 (1.515 %) MCTS 5 1 (1.515 %) RHCT
System Software 1 39 (59.09 %) Active Directory 2 5 (7.576 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 5 (7.576 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (4.545 %) MetaFrame 3 3 (4.545 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (3.030 %) NetBackup 4 2 (3.030 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (1.515 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 2 (3.030 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.515 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.515 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 30 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 15 (22.73 %) HP 2 15 (22.73 %) Citrix 3 8 (12.12 %) VMware 4 6 (9.091 %) Symantec 5 5 (7.576 %) Compaq 5 5 (7.576 %) Dell 5 5 (7.576 %) Sun 5 5 (7.576 %) IBM 6 4 (6.061 %) Cisco 6 4 (6.061 %) Novell 7 3 (4.545 %) VERITAS 7 3 (4.545 %) AppSense 8 2 (3.030 %) Softricity 8 2 (3.030 %) Altiris 8 2 (3.030 %) EMC 8 2 (3.030 %) Siemens 8 2 (3.030 %) Fujitsu Siemens 9 1 (1.515 %) Red Hat