Wales Exchange Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 skills within the Wales 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 2000 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
Location Aberdeen Barking Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	54
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	18	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	9.184 %	4.762 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£200
Average daily rate	£200	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£269
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£10.75	£16.50
% change on same period last year	-34.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.33	£19.99
% change on same period last year	+16.73 %
Application Platforms Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	196	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.261 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	53	35
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£327
Average daily rate	£400	£347
% change on same period last year	+15.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£428	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.27	£20.05
Average hourly rate	£17.91	£21.37
% change on same period last year	-16.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.55	£22.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2000 UK

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 2000
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Exchange Server 2000
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the Wales region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the Wales region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
South Wales	+7	15	£200	-
North Wales	-3	1	-	-

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Exchange Server 2000
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000.

1 29 (90.63 %) Windows 2 27 (84.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 21 (65.63 %) Active Directory 4 16 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 5 15 (46.88 %) Migration 6 14 (43.75 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (43.75 %) Windows Server 2003 7 13 (40.63 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 12 (37.50 %) Windows NT 9 10 (31.25 %) Windows XP 9 10 (31.25 %) Microsoft 10 8 (25.00 %) NDS 10 8 (25.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 11 7 (21.88 %) GroupWise

11 7 (21.88 %) MS Office 11 7 (21.88 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 6 (18.75 %) SQL 13 5 (15.63 %) MCP 13 5 (15.63 %) SC Cleared 13 5 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 13 5 (15.63 %) Clustering 14 4 (12.50 %) Government 14 4 (12.50 %) Fujitsu Siemens 14 4 (12.50 %) PACS 14 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel 14 4 (12.50 %) HP 14 4 (12.50 %) Compaq 14 4 (12.50 %) SAN 14 4 (12.50 %) Siemens

Exchange Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Exchange Server 2000 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 2000. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 27 (84.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 16 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 3 13 (40.63 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 7 (21.88 %) GroupWise 4 7 (21.88 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 7 (21.88 %) MS Office 2 4 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) SAN 2 1 (3.125 %) TCP/IP	General 1 4 (12.50 %) Government 2 2 (6.250 %) Health
Job Titles 1 5 (15.63 %) 2nd Line Support 1 5 (15.63 %) Technical Lead 2 4 (12.50 %) Server Specialist 2 4 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 3 (9.375 %) Technical Specialist 3 3 (9.375 %) Exchange Engineer 4 2 (6.250 %) Migration Engineer 4 2 (6.250 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (6.250 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (6.250 %) Team Leader 4 2 (6.250 %) Analyst 4 2 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Architect 5 1 (3.125 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.125 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 1 (3.125 %) Technical Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Windows Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (15.63 %) Clustering 2 4 (12.50 %) PACS 3 3 (9.375 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 29 (90.63 %) Windows 2 14 (43.75 %) Windows 2000 2 14 (43.75 %) Windows Server 2003 3 12 (37.50 %) Windows NT 4 10 (31.25 %) Windows XP 5 1 (3.125 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (46.88 %) Migration 2 5 (15.63 %) SC Cleared 2 5 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (9.375 %) ITIL 4 1 (3.125 %) Validation 4 1 (3.125 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (3.125 %) CTC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (18.75 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (15.63 %) MCP 3 3 (9.375 %) MCSE
System Software 1 21 (65.63 %) Active Directory 2 8 (25.00 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 8 (25.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 10 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 4 (12.50 %) HP 2 4 (12.50 %) Compaq 2 4 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 4 (12.50 %) Siemens 2 4 (12.50 %) Fujitsu Siemens 3 3 (9.375 %) VERITAS 3 3 (9.375 %) Novell 4 2 (6.250 %) McAfee Security 5 1 (3.125 %) VMware 5 1 (3.125 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.125 %) Dell