The first table below looks at the demand for the Exchange Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Exchange Consultant
Rank 493 544 553
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Consultant 36 40 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.069% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.074% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 16
Average daily rate £340 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £300 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £429 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+12.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Exchange Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exchange Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exchange Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Exchange Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Exchange Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exchange Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Exchange Consultant
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +49 35 £340 +4.61%
London +45 14 £325 -13.33%
South East +16 10 £353 +17.50%
City of London +21 8 £325 -13.33%
Oxfordshire - 8 £340 -
Oxford - 7 £340 -
Yorkshire +1 3 £150 -68.42%
Birmingham +13 2 £383 -
North West +11 2 £450 +50.00%
West Midlands +8 2 £383 -
East Midlands -4 2 - -
Hull - 2 £150 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £150 -
South West +28 1 £260 -
Surrey +15 1 £525 -
Edinburgh +5 1 - -
Lancashire +4 1 £450 +50.00%
West Yorkshire 0 1 - -
Leeds -7 1 - -
Hampshire -9 1 £425 -
Scotland -11 1 - -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £450 -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Devon - 1 £260 -
York - 1 - -
Wetherby - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £425 -
Plymouth - 1 £260 -

Exchange Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Exchange Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 51 (89.47%) MS Exchange
2 39 (68.42%) Exchange Server 2010
3 36 (63.16%) Migration
4 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
5 26 (45.61%) Active Directory
6 25 (43.86%) Exchange Server 2003
7 19 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (29.82%) MCSE
9 16 (28.07%) VMware
9 16 (28.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 13 (22.81%) SCOM
10 13 (22.81%) Blackberry
10 13 (22.81%) Windows
11 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
12 11 (19.30%) vSphere
13 9 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
14 8 (14.04%) Lync
14 8 (14.04%) Finance
14 8 (14.04%) SMTP
14 8 (14.04%) Symantec
14 8 (14.04%) Lotus Domino
14 8 (14.04%) Lotus
15 7 (12.28%) Lotus Notes
15 7 (12.28%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
15 7 (12.28%) MobileIron
15 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
15 7 (12.28%) Postini
15 7 (12.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (12.28%) Banking

Exchange Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Exchange Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.754%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 51 (89.47%) MS Exchange
2 39 (68.42%) Exchange Server 2010
3 25 (43.86%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (28.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 8 (14.04%) Lync
5 8 (14.04%) Lotus Domino
6 7 (12.28%) Lotus Notes
7 6 (10.53%) Office Communications Server
8 5 (8.772%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (1.754%) SharePoint
10 1 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.509%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) SMTP
2 5 (8.772%) LDAP
3 4 (7.018%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.018%) DNS
3 4 (7.018%) SSL
3 4 (7.018%) POP3
4 3 (5.263%) SAN
5 2 (3.509%) DHCP
6 1 (1.754%) LAN
6 1 (1.754%) WAN
6 1 (1.754%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.754%) NAS
6 1 (1.754%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 8 (14.04%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Banking
3 3 (5.263%) Publishing
4 1 (1.754%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.754%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.509%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.754%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Windows
2 9 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (8.772%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (5.263%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.754%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.754%) UNIX
5 1 (1.754%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Migration
2 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
3 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (7.018%) ITIL
5 2 (3.509%) Change Control
5 2 (3.509%) Change Management
6 1 (1.754%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (1.754%) Project Management
6 1 (1.754%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (1.754%) Product Management
6 1 (1.754%) Data Migration
6 1 (1.754%) Load Balancing
6 1 (1.754%) Problem Management
6 1 (1.754%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.263%) C
2 3 (5.263%) SQL
2 3 (5.263%) VB
3 1 (1.754%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.754%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (29.82%) MCSE
3 7 (12.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (7.018%) MCITP
5 1 (1.754%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.263%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.30%) vSphere
3 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.263%) ISA Server
5 2 (3.509%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.509%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.754%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.754%) UAG
6 1 (1.754%) XenApp
6 1 (1.754%) XenServer
6 1 (1.754%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) SCOM
2 7 (12.28%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (10.53%) MAILsweeper
4 3 (5.263%) Tivoli
4 3 (5.263%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.754%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.754%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.07%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) Symantec
3 8 (14.04%) Lotus
4 7 (12.28%) MobileIron
4 7 (12.28%) Postini
5 4 (7.018%) F5
6 3 (5.263%) Clearswift
6 3 (5.263%) McAfee
6 3 (5.263%) RightFax
6 3 (5.263%) Open Text
6 3 (5.263%) IronPort
7 2 (3.509%) Websense
7 2 (3.509%) Cisco
7 2 (3.509%) HP
8 1 (1.754%) Dell
8 1 (1.754%) EMC
8 1 (1.754%) Citrix
8 1 (1.754%) NetApp
8 1 (1.754%) Novell
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