The first table below looks at the demand for Exchange Server 2003 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Exchange Server 2003 over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Application Platforms category for the West Sussex region.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Rank 38 57 40
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -17
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 3 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.777% 0.158% 2.697%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.167% 1.235% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £275 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £260 £250
% change year-on-year
+13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.25 £21.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +37.70%
All Application Platforms
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
72 81 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 18.65% 12.80% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 38 17
Average daily rate £425 £400 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +42.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £290 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £505 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 13
Average hourly rate £16.50 - £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 - £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.55 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Exchange Server 2003
South East

Exchange Server 2003
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

West Sussex Exchange Server 2003 Jobs Demand Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Exchange Server 2003 Daily Rate Trend

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Exchange Server 2003 Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Crawley - 2 - -
Exchange Server 2003
South East

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Postfix
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (66.67%) Sophos
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) SSL
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) Finance

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 Development
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (33.33%) Zimbra
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) ADSL
3 2 (33.33%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Support Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 4 (66.67%) Postfix
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) Sophos
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) CommVault
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Avaya