The first table below looks at the demand for the Exchange Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Exchange Administrator
Rank 528 554 572
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Administrator 13 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.019% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.020% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 9
Average daily rate £295 £275 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.27% +1.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £239 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £296
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £270
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £26.12 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.10% +9.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- +9.75%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Exchange Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Exchange Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Administrator within the UK.

Exchange Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Exchange Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Administrator within the UK.

Exchange Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Administrator
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +46 13 £295 +7.27%
London - 8 £273 -
South East +17 4 £300 +5.26%
Oxfordshire - 3 £300 -
Oxford - 3 £300 -
City of London - 2 £248 -
Surrey +18 1 £300 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Hull - 1 - -

Exchange Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Exchange Administrator in their job title 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 with Exchange Administrator in their job title.

1 24 (96.00%) MS Exchange
2 20 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (72.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (48.00%) Migration
4 12 (48.00%) Blackberry
5 11 (44.00%) Lync
6 10 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 10 (40.00%) SMTP
6 10 (40.00%) Windows
7 8 (32.00%) SharePoint
8 7 (28.00%) DNS
8 7 (28.00%) IIS
8 7 (28.00%) MS Office
8 7 (28.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (28.00%) Business Continuity
9 6 (24.00%) Windows Mobile
9 6 (24.00%) Postini
9 6 (24.00%) iPhone
9 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (24.00%) Apple
9 6 (24.00%) Law
10 5 (20.00%) Symantec
10 5 (20.00%) ITIL
10 5 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
11 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
11 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
12 3 (12.00%) VMware
12 3 (12.00%) Clustering

Exchange Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Exchange Administrator in their job title 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 with Exchange Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 24 (96.00%) MS Exchange
2 20 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (44.00%) Lync
4 10 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 8 (32.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (28.00%) IIS
6 7 (28.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (4.000%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) MS Office
2 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (8.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) SMTP
2 7 (28.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) Firewall
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) VLAN
General
1 6 (24.00%) Law
2 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
2 2 (8.000%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Blackberry
2 6 (24.00%) iPhone
3 3 (12.00%) Clustering
4 2 (8.000%) Statistics
4 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Mobile
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Migration
2 7 (28.00%) Business Continuity
3 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.000%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.000%) BCP
6 1 (4.000%) Asset Management
6 1 (4.000%) IT Governance
6 1 (4.000%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) MCSE
1 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.000%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Postini
2 6 (24.00%) Apple
3 5 (20.00%) Symantec
4 3 (12.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.000%) NetApp
5 1 (4.000%) Lotus
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