The first table below looks at the demand for MS Exchange skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Exchange over the 3 months to 22 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 South Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server
Rank 26 20 31
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +11
Contract jobs citing MS Exchange 6 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 2.299% 4.494% 2.083%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.95% 19.05% 9.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £225 £135 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -46.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £260 £275
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
Average hourly rate £23.50 £23.00 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.17% +29.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- +9.37%
All Application Platforms
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
43 63 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.48% 23.60% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 43
Average daily rate £253 £401 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.95% -5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £545 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 7
Average hourly rate £15.00 £23.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.78% +15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
MS Exchange
Yorkshire

MS Exchange
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire MS Exchange Jobs Demand Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire MS Exchange Daily Rate Trend

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South Yorkshire MS Exchange Daily Rate Histogram

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire MS Exchange Hourly Rate Trend

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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sheffield +1 3 £225 +63.63%
Doncaster -1 2 £395 +192.59%
MS Exchange
Yorkshire

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (81.82%) Active Directory
3 16 (72.73%) Citrix
4 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
5 14 (63.64%) VMware
6 13 (59.09%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (59.09%) MS Office
6 13 (59.09%) Windows XP
7 11 (50.00%) MS Excel
8 10 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2007
9 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
9 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
11 7 (31.82%) Exchange Server 2003
12 6 (27.27%) CA
13 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (22.73%) DNS
13 5 (22.73%) MCSE
13 5 (22.73%) Windows NT
13 5 (22.73%) ITIL
13 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
13 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
14 4 (18.18%) XenApp
14 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
14 4 (18.18%) Unicenter
15 3 (13.64%) SAN
15 3 (13.64%) DHCP
15 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 10 (45.45%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (31.82%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (9.091%) IIS
4 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.545%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 13 (59.09%) MS Office
2 11 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.545%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) SAN
2 3 (13.64%) DHCP
3 1 (4.545%) LAN
3 1 (4.545%) WAN
3 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.545%) VPN
3 1 (4.545%) Internet
3 1 (4.545%) Firewall
3 1 (4.545%) Wireless
3 1 (4.545%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (4.545%) Military
1 1 (4.545%) Electronics
1 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.545%) Aerospace
1 1 (4.545%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Service Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (22.73%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Storage Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Server Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Server Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Support Technician
3 2 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.545%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
1 1 (4.545%) Clustering
1 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
1 1 (4.545%) PDA
1 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
1 1 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (59.09%) Windows XP
3 10 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (22.73%) Windows NT
5 3 (13.64%) Windows 7
6 2 (9.091%) Windows Vista
7 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) ITIL
1 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
1 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
3 2 (9.091%) CRM
4 1 (4.545%) Service Management
4 1 (4.545%) Security Management
4 1 (4.545%) Migration
4 1 (4.545%) Data Management
4 1 (4.545%) Information Management
4 1 (4.545%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.545%) Time Management
4 1 (4.545%) Communications Security
4 1 (4.545%) Software Distribution
4 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (4.545%) C
2 1 (4.545%) SQL
2 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (22.73%) MCSE
4 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.545%) Degree
4 1 (4.545%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) XenApp
4 2 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.091%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
4 2 (9.091%) Terminal Server
4 2 (9.091%) Terminal Services
5 1 (4.545%) MetaFrame
5 1 (4.545%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Unicenter
2 2 (9.091%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (9.091%) WSUS
3 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.545%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.545%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Citrix
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (63.64%) VMware
4 6 (27.27%) CA
5 2 (9.091%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.091%) McAfee
5 2 (9.091%) NetApp
6 1 (4.545%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.545%) Lotus
6 1 (4.545%) Cisco
6 1 (4.545%) HP
6 1 (4.545%) AppSense
6 1 (4.545%) Websense
6 1 (4.545%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.545%) IronPort
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