South Yorkshire MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server skills within the South Yorkshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Knottingley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	30
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	23	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	29.11 %	15.63 %
Daily rates quoted	12	0
Average minimum daily rate	£173	-
Average daily rate	£188	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£202	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£298
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.45	£10.45
Average hourly rate	£12.56	£10.45
% change on same period last year	+20.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.67	£10.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.26	£17.22
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Application Platforms South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	79	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.072 %
Daily rates quoted	33	7
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£361
Average daily rate	£267	£391
% change on same period last year	-31.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.22	£10.36
Average hourly rate	£16.07	£10.43
% change on same period last year	+54.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.91	£10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Exchange Yorkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire region.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Exchange across the South Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange within the South Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Sheffield	-5	16	£225	-
2	Rotherham	-	1	-	-

MS Exchange Yorkshire

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange.

1 30 (75.00 %) Windows 2 28 (70.00 %) Active Directory 3 26 (65.00 %) Microsoft 4 23 (57.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 15 (37.50 %) MS Excel 6 13 (32.50 %) Lotus Notes 6 13 (32.50 %) HP 6 13 (32.50 %) Lotus 7 11 (27.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 10 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 10 (25.00 %) OpenView 8 10 (25.00 %) MCSE 8 10 (25.00 %) MS Office 8 10 (25.00 %) ITIL 9 9 (22.50 %) Windows XP

10 8 (20.00 %) Cisco 10 8 (20.00 %) SQL 10 8 (20.00 %) Remedy 11 7 (17.50 %) SCOM 12 6 (15.00 %) MOM 12 6 (15.00 %) MCP 12 6 (15.00 %) Lotus Domino 12 6 (15.00 %) Windows 2000 13 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 5 (12.50 %) Informix 13 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 13 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 13 5 (12.50 %) AIX 13 5 (12.50 %) HPUX 13 5 (12.50 %) Solaris

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing MS Exchange also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Exchange. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 23 (57.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 13 (32.50 %) Lotus Notes 3 11 (27.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 6 (15.00 %) Lotus Domino 5 4 (10.00 %) SharePoint 6 1 (2.500 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 15 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 10 (25.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.50 %) SAN 2 4 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (10.00 %) DNS 3 3 (7.500 %) WINS 4 1 (2.500 %) SNA 4 1 (2.500 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 5 (12.50 %) Informix 1 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 4 (10.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.000 %) Education 2 2 (5.000 %) Health 3 1 (2.500 %) Finance 3 1 (2.500 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 11 (27.50 %) Analyst 2 7 (17.50 %) Support Analyst 2 7 (17.50 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support 4 4 (10.00 %) Technical Support 5 3 (7.500 %) Service Analyst 5 3 (7.500 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (7.500 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 3 (7.500 %) Technical Analyst 5 3 (7.500 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 2 (5.000 %) Consultant 6 2 (5.000 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 2 (5.000 %) Citrix Engineer 6 2 (5.000 %) Technical Consultant 6 2 (5.000 %) Citrix Support 7 1 (2.500 %) Helpdesk Engineer 7 1 (2.500 %) Server Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Senior Server Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) EMC Engineer 7 1 (2.500 %) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.000 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 30 (75.00 %) Windows 2 9 (22.50 %) Windows XP 3 6 (15.00 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (12.50 %) AIX 4 5 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 5 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 5 (12.50 %) Linux 5 2 (5.000 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 5 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 5 (12.50 %) ITSM 3 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.500 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.500 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (20.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 10 (25.00 %) MCSE 1 10 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (15.00 %) MCP 3 5 (12.50 %) SNIA Certification 4 3 (7.500 %) MCSA 5 2 (5.000 %) CCA 5 2 (5.000 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (5.000 %) CCEA 6 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (7.500 %) SLA
System Software 1 28 (70.00 %) Active Directory 2 5 (12.50 %) NetBackup 3 3 (7.500 %) ISA Server 4 1 (2.500 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (2.500 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (2.500 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (2.500 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 10 (25.00 %) OpenView 2 7 (17.50 %) SCOM 3 6 (15.00 %) MOM 4 5 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 5 (12.50 %) OVPA 4 5 (12.50 %) HP Data Protector 4 5 (12.50 %) Legato 5 3 (7.500 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 26 (65.00 %) Microsoft 2 13 (32.50 %) HP 2 13 (32.50 %) Lotus 3 8 (20.00 %) Remedy 3 8 (20.00 %) Cisco 4 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 5 (12.50 %) Sun 4 5 (12.50 %) EMC 4 5 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 5 (12.50 %) VERITAS 4 5 (12.50 %) Brocade 5 2 (5.000 %) Altiris 5 2 (5.000 %) Novell 6 1 (2.500 %) VMware 6 1 (2.500 %) NetApp