Staffordshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the Staffordshire 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 2003 over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Humberside Ilford Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Thirsk Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	23	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	11	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	32.35 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£420	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£440	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£273
% change on same period last year	+12.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.32	£20.34
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Application Platforms Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	34	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£180
Average daily rate	£349	£220
% change on same period last year	+58.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.18	£25.15
Average hourly rate	£28.05	£27.09
% change on same period last year	+3.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.91	£29.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.89	£22.97
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Exchange Server 2003 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.

Exchange Server 2003
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Staffordshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the Staffordshire region.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	5	£410	-
Stafford	-	4	£425	-

Exchange Server 2003 West Midlands

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003.

1 16 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 13 (81.25 %) Windows 3 10 (62.50 %) Active Directory 4 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 5 8 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2008 6 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (25.00 %) Cisco 7 4 (25.00 %) MCSE 8 3 (18.75 %) PKI 8 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 8 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 8 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP

8 3 (18.75 %) Symantec 8 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE 9 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 9 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 9 2 (12.50 %) Migration 9 2 (12.50 %) 3Com 9 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 9 2 (12.50 %) CCNA 9 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 9 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 9 2 (12.50 %) LAN 9 2 (12.50 %) WAN 9 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 9 2 (12.50 %) VPN 9 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 16 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Movex	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) LAN 1 2 (12.50 %) WAN 1 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (12.50 %) VPN 1 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 2 1 (6.250 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Technical Specialist 1 4 (25.00 %) Exchange Specialist 2 2 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Infrastructure Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Architect 2 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architect 2 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support 3 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Lead
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2008 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE 1 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (25.00 %) MCSE 3 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 3 2 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA	System Software 1 10 (62.50 %) Active Directory 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (6.250 %) MetaFrame
Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 4 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 3 3 (18.75 %) Symantec 4 2 (12.50 %) 3Com 5 1 (6.250 %) Mitel