West Sussex Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the West Sussex 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bathgate Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cramlington Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	40
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	18.42 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£168	-
Average daily rate	£196	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£225	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£286
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.63	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.38	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.08	£21.14
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Application Platforms West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	76	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.098 %	0.061 %
Daily rates quoted	26	13
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£309
Average daily rate	£306	£324
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.61	£18.15
Average hourly rate	£18.96	£19.15
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.31	£20.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Exchange Server 2003 South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the West Sussex 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Exchange Server 2003 across the West Sussex region.

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the West Sussex region over the past 3 months.

Exchange Server 2003
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 within the West Sussex 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	Gatwick	-	4	£178	-
2	Worthing	-	2	-	-
2	Crawley	+1	2	-	-
3	Chichester	-	1	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Sussex region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003.

1 25 (89.29 %) Windows 2 24 (85.71 %) Active Directory 3 22 (78.57 %) MS Exchange 4 14 (50.00 %) Microsoft 5 11 (39.29 %) Citrix 5 11 (39.29 %) MS Excel 6 10 (35.71 %) DNS 7 9 (32.14 %) DHCP 7 9 (32.14 %) Symantec 7 9 (32.14 %) VMware 7 9 (32.14 %) NetBackup 7 9 (32.14 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 8 (28.57 %) HP 9 7 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 10 6 (21.43 %) MS Office

10 6 (21.43 %) Windows NT 10 6 (21.43 %) IBM 10 6 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 10 6 (21.43 %) Intel 10 6 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 10 6 (21.43 %) Insurance 11 5 (17.86 %) MOM 11 5 (17.86 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 5 (17.86 %) Websense 11 5 (17.86 %) VMware ESX 11 5 (17.86 %) MCSE 12 4 (14.29 %) Windows XP 12 4 (14.29 %) SQL 12 4 (14.29 %) WINS 13 3 (10.71 %) Migration

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Sussex region citing Exchange Server 2003 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 Exchange Server 2003. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (7.143 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 22 (78.57 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (32.14 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (10.71 %) SharePoint 4 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 11 (39.29 %) MS Excel 2 6 (21.43 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (35.71 %) DNS 2 9 (32.14 %) DHCP 3 4 (14.29 %) WINS 4 3 (10.71 %) SAN 5 2 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (3.571 %) VPN 6 1 (3.571 %) WAN
Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) MSI	General 1 6 (21.43 %) Insurance 2 1 (3.571 %) Finance 2 1 (3.571 %) Government 2 1 (3.571 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 11 (39.29 %) Analyst 2 8 (28.57 %) Support Engineer 3 6 (21.43 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 4 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 4 4 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Support 4 4 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Engineer 5 3 (10.71 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (10.71 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (10.71 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (7.143 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (7.143 %) Citrix Engineer 6 2 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Advisor 7 1 (3.571 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Technical Engineer 7 1 (3.571 %) Service Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.571 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.571 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.571 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.571 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.571 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 25 (89.29 %) Windows 2 7 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (21.43 %) Windows NT 3 6 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 2 (7.143 %) Linux 5 2 (7.143 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.71 %) Migration 2 2 (7.143 %) Operations Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Problem Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 4 (14.29 %) SQL 2 2 (7.143 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 6 (21.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (17.86 %) MCSE
System Software 1 24 (85.71 %) Active Directory 2 9 (32.14 %) NetBackup 3 5 (17.86 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (10.71 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (7.143 %) VMware Workstation 5 2 (7.143 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 5 (17.86 %) MOM 1 5 (17.86 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 14 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (39.29 %) Citrix 3 9 (32.14 %) Symantec 3 9 (32.14 %) VMware 4 8 (28.57 %) HP 5 6 (21.43 %) IBM 5 6 (21.43 %) Intel 6 5 (17.86 %) Websense 7 3 (10.71 %) VERITAS 8 2 (7.143 %) Novell 8 2 (7.143 %) Cisco 8 2 (7.143 %) Compaq 8 2 (7.143 %) Dell 8 2 (7.143 %) EMC 9 1 (3.571 %) Sun 9 1 (3.571 %) Interwoven 9 1 (3.571 %) Lotus 9 1 (3.571 %) LANDesk