South West Exchange Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Exchange Server 2000 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Barking Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	100
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	20	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	3.738 %	10.07 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£212
Average daily rate	£350	£228
% change on same period last year	+53.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£268	£248
% change on same period last year	+7.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£23.87
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-0.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£28.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.66	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+5.65 %
Application Platforms South West
Matching contract IT job ads	535	596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.705 %	0.632 %
Daily rates quoted	118	116
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£287
Average daily rate	£346	£306
% change on same period last year	+13.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£22.37
Average hourly rate	£24.70	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.37	£26.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2000
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 West region.

Exchange Server 2000
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 West region.

Exchange Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Exchange Server 2000
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Exchange Server 2000 within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Wiltshire	+3	7	-	-
Somerset	-10	5	£350	+28.04 %
Bristol	0	5	-	-
Gloucestershire	+3	2	-	-

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Exchange Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 44 (86.27 %) Windows 2 33 (64.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 30 (58.82 %) Windows 2000 4 23 (45.10 %) MS Exchange 4 23 (45.10 %) Active Directory 5 19 (37.25 %) Microsoft 6 16 (31.37 %) Microsoft Certification 7 15 (29.41 %) MCSE 8 12 (23.53 %) Windows XP 9 11 (21.57 %) Citrix 10 9 (17.65 %) Symantec 10 9 (17.65 %) Security Cleared 10 9 (17.65 %) Migration 11 8 (15.69 %) Backup Exec 11 8 (15.69 %) Windows Server 2003

11 8 (15.69 %) HP 12 7 (13.73 %) MS Excel 12 7 (13.73 %) VMware 12 7 (13.73 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 6 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 13 6 (11.76 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 6 (11.76 %) Manufacturing 13 6 (11.76 %) Government 13 6 (11.76 %) Windows NT 13 6 (11.76 %) SQL 14 5 (9.804 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 14 5 (9.804 %) SQL Server 14 5 (9.804 %) LAN 14 5 (9.804 %) VMware Infrastructure 15 4 (7.843 %) Fat Client

Exchange Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Platforms 1 33 (64.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 23 (45.10 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (13.73 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 6 (11.76 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (3.922 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 2 (3.922 %) IIS 6 1 (1.961 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 7 (13.73 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.882 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.961 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) assyst 2 1 (1.961 %) GoldMine	Communications & Networking 1 5 (9.804 %) LAN 2 4 (7.843 %) DNS 2 4 (7.843 %) SAN 3 3 (5.882 %) WINS 3 3 (5.882 %) DHCP 3 3 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (3.922 %) WAN 5 1 (1.961 %) SMTP 5 1 (1.961 %) SMS 5 1 (1.961 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.961 %) VPN 5 1 (1.961 %) FTP 5 1 (1.961 %) X.400 5 1 (1.961 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (9.804 %) SQL Server 2 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 6 (11.76 %) Government 1 6 (11.76 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (1.961 %) Finance 2 1 (1.961 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 9 (17.65 %) Support Engineer 1 9 (17.65 %) 2nd Line Support 2 6 (11.76 %) Desktop Support 3 5 (9.804 %) Analyst 3 5 (9.804 %) Consultant 4 4 (7.843 %) Administrator 4 4 (7.843 %) Technical Consultant 4 4 (7.843 %) Network Support 5 3 (5.882 %) Technical Support 5 3 (5.882 %) Support Technician 6 2 (3.922 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) Server Support 6 2 (3.922 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (3.922 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Security Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (3.922 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Exchange Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.843 %) Thin Client 1 4 (7.843 %) Fat Client 2 3 (5.882 %) Blackberry 3 2 (3.922 %) Mainframe 4 1 (1.961 %) SecurID 4 1 (1.961 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 44 (86.27 %) Windows 2 30 (58.82 %) Windows 2000 3 12 (23.53 %) Windows XP 4 8 (15.69 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (11.76 %) Windows NT 6 3 (5.882 %) Solaris 7 2 (3.922 %) Unix 8 1 (1.961 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (1.961 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (17.65 %) Migration 1 9 (17.65 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (5.882 %) ITIL 3 3 (5.882 %) Data Migration 4 2 (3.922 %) Service Management 4 2 (3.922 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (1.961 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.961 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (1.961 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.961 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 6 (11.76 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 16 (31.37 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (29.41 %) MCSE 3 3 (5.882 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (1.961 %) Degree 4 1 (1.961 %) MCP 4 1 (1.961 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.961 %) SLA	System Software 1 23 (45.10 %) Active Directory 2 8 (15.69 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (9.804 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 4 (7.843 %) NetBackup 5 3 (5.882 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (1.961 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 5 (9.804 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.961 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 19 (37.25 %) Microsoft 2 11 (21.57 %) Citrix 3 9 (17.65 %) Symantec 4 8 (15.69 %) HP 5 7 (13.73 %) VMware 6 4 (7.843 %) VERITAS 7 2 (3.922 %) Dell 7 2 (3.922 %) SAP 7 2 (3.922 %) Cisco 7 2 (3.922 %) IBM 8 1 (1.961 %) Compuware 8 1 (1.961 %) EMC 8 1 (1.961 %) Nortel 8 1 (1.961 %) Compaq 8 1 (1.961 %) Clearswift 8 1 (1.961 %) Avaya 8 1 (1.961 %) NetApp