West Sussex MS Exchange Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 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 MS Exchange over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Exchange Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Peterlee Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thurrock Tonbridge Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	37
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	29	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	37.66 %	20.75 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£156	£208
Average daily rate	£181	£208
% change on same period last year	-13.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£206	£208
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£292
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.85	£13.33
Average hourly rate	£18.58	£13.67
% change on same period last year	+35.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.31	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.31	£17.21
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Application Platforms West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	77	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.060 %
Daily rates quoted	26	12
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£299
Average daily rate	£306	£312
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.54	£18.15
Average hourly rate	£18.85	£19.15
% change on same period last year	-1.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.16	£20.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
MS Exchange 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.

MS Exchange
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing MS Exchange across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Exchange
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Exchange 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	Crawley	+6	6	£180	+12.50 %
2	Gatwick	+8	5	£164	+2.34 %
3	East Grinstead	+2	3	-	-
4	Haywards Heath	-	1	-	-
4	Worthing	-	1	-	-
4	Chichester	+3	1	-	-

MS Exchange South East

MS Exchange
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (70.37 %) Windows 2 37 (68.52 %) Active Directory 3 29 (53.70 %) Microsoft 4 23 (42.59 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 19 (35.19 %) MS Excel 6 17 (31.48 %) MS Office 7 12 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 8 11 (20.37 %) Windows XP 8 11 (20.37 %) Citrix 9 10 (18.52 %) Migration 9 10 (18.52 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 10 (18.52 %) DNS 10 9 (16.67 %) DHCP 10 9 (16.67 %) HP 10 9 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003

10 9 (16.67 %) NetBackup 11 8 (14.81 %) VMware 11 8 (14.81 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 8 (14.81 %) Lotus 11 8 (14.81 %) Lotus Notes 11 8 (14.81 %) Windows NT 12 7 (12.96 %) IBM 12 7 (12.96 %) Intel 12 7 (12.96 %) Symantec 13 6 (11.11 %) VMware ESX 13 6 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 6 (11.11 %) Insurance 13 6 (11.11 %) Norton AntiVirus 13 6 (11.11 %) Websense 13 6 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification

MS Exchange
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (3.704 %) WMI 2 1 (1.852 %) .NET 2 1 (1.852 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 23 (42.59 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (18.52 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (14.81 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 8 (14.81 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (7.407 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.852 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (1.852 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 19 (35.19 %) MS Excel 2 17 (31.48 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (18.52 %) DNS 2 9 (16.67 %) DHCP 3 5 (9.259 %) WINS 4 4 (7.407 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (5.556 %) SAN 6 2 (3.704 %) Intranet 6 2 (3.704 %) WAN 7 1 (1.852 %) LAN 7 1 (1.852 %) VPN 7 1 (1.852 %) Internet 7 1 (1.852 %) Firewall
Development Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) MSI	General 1 6 (11.11 %) Insurance 2 1 (1.852 %) Front Office 2 1 (1.852 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.852 %) Education 2 1 (1.852 %) Government 2 1 (1.852 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 12 (22.22 %) Analyst 2 11 (20.37 %) Support Engineer 3 9 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Support 4 8 (14.81 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (12.96 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 6 (11.11 %) Project Manager 7 5 (9.259 %) Desktop Support 8 4 (7.407 %) Systems Engineer 8 4 (7.407 %) 1st Line Support 8 4 (7.407 %) 3rd Line Support 8 4 (7.407 %) Helpdesk Engineer 9 3 (5.556 %) Support Analyst 10 2 (3.704 %) Systems Support 10 2 (3.704 %) Support Technician 10 2 (3.704 %) Administrator 10 2 (3.704 %) Systems Support Engineer 10 2 (3.704 %) Server Engineer 10 2 (3.704 %) Citrix Engineer 10 2 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Advisor 11 1 (1.852 %) Helpdesk Technician	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.704 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.852 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.852 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.852 %) Mathematics 2 1 (1.852 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 38 (70.37 %) Windows 2 12 (22.22 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (20.37 %) Windows XP 4 9 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (14.81 %) Windows NT 6 3 (5.556 %) Unix 7 2 (3.704 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (18.52 %) Migration 2 6 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (3.704 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.704 %) Change Management 3 2 (3.704 %) Operations Management 4 1 (1.852 %) Problem Management 4 1 (1.852 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 5 (9.259 %) SQL 2 2 (3.704 %) VBA 3 1 (1.852 %) C#	Qualifications 1 6 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 1 6 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 4 (7.407 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.852 %) Degree
System Software 1 37 (68.52 %) Active Directory 2 9 (16.67 %) NetBackup 3 6 (11.11 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (3.704 %) VMware Workstation 4 2 (3.704 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (1.852 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 6 (11.11 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 4 (7.407 %) MOM 3 2 (3.704 %) Legato
Vendors 1 29 (53.70 %) Microsoft 2 11 (20.37 %) Citrix 3 9 (16.67 %) HP 4 8 (14.81 %) Lotus 4 8 (14.81 %) VMware 5 7 (12.96 %) Symantec 5 7 (12.96 %) IBM 5 7 (12.96 %) Intel 6 6 (11.11 %) Websense 7 3 (5.556 %) Novell 8 2 (3.704 %) VERITAS 8 2 (3.704 %) Cisco 8 2 (3.704 %) Compaq 8 2 (3.704 %) Dell 8 2 (3.704 %) EMC 9 1 (1.852 %) Sun 9 1 (1.852 %) Interwoven 9 1 (1.852 %) LANDesk