West Yorkshire Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 skills within the West Yorkshire 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	73	64
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	19	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	6.810 %	9.215 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£267
Average daily rate	£280	£303
% change on same period last year	-7.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£286
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£20.50	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.08	£21.14
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Application Platforms West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	279	293
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.329 %
Daily rates quoted	48	43
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£279
Average daily rate	£327	£294
% change on same period last year	+10.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.18	£15.98
Average hourly rate	£17.41	£16.93
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.64	£17.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Exchange Server 2003 Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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	Leeds	-2	17	£280	-1.75 %
2	Halifax	-	2	-	-

Exchange Server 2003 Yorkshire

Exchange Server 2003
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 32 (96.97 %) Windows 2 27 (81.82 %) Active Directory 3 19 (57.58 %) MS Exchange 4 14 (42.42 %) Windows 2000 5 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 6 12 (36.36 %) Microsoft 6 12 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 11 (33.33 %) WAN 7 11 (33.33 %) ITIL 8 9 (27.27 %) MS Office 8 9 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 9 8 (24.24 %) SAN 9 8 (24.24 %) MCSE 9 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 9 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2005

10 7 (21.21 %) Citrix 10 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 2000 11 6 (18.18 %) Windows XP 11 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel 12 5 (15.15 %) SharePoint 12 5 (15.15 %) VMware 12 5 (15.15 %) VMware ESX 13 4 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 13 4 (12.12 %) Firewall 13 4 (12.12 %) Mac OS X 13 4 (12.12 %) MPLS 13 4 (12.12 %) X-Windows 13 4 (12.12 %) SQL 13 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2

Exchange Server 2003
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (12.12 %) X-Windows	Application Platforms 1 19 (57.58 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 5 (15.15 %) SharePoint 4 4 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 9 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.030 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 11 (33.33 %) WAN 2 8 (24.24 %) SAN 3 4 (12.12 %) VPN 3 4 (12.12 %) MPLS 3 4 (12.12 %) Firewall 4 2 (6.061 %) DNS 4 2 (6.061 %) Internet 4 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (3.030 %) LAN 5 1 (3.030 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 1 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2005 2 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (6.061 %) MS Access 4 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 1 2 (6.061 %) Finance 1 2 (6.061 %) Law 1 2 (6.061 %) Banking 2 1 (3.030 %) Government
Job Titles 1 9 (27.27 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 5 (15.15 %) Administrator 3 5 (15.15 %) Server Support 3 5 (15.15 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (12.12 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (9.091 %) Technical Support 6 2 (6.061 %) Technical Consultant 6 2 (6.061 %) Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Consultant 6 2 (6.061 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Server Support Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Windows Server Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Project Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Security Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.091 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 32 (96.97 %) Windows 2 14 (42.42 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (18.18 %) Windows XP 5 4 (12.12 %) Mac OS X 6 3 (9.091 %) NetWare 7 2 (6.061 %) Solaris 7 2 (6.061 %) Unix 8 1 (3.030 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (3.030 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 2 (6.061 %) Migration 4 2 (6.061 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (24.24 %) MCSE 3 2 (6.061 %) MCSA 3 2 (6.061 %) CCNA 3 2 (6.061 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (3.030 %) MCP 4 1 (3.030 %) CNA 4 1 (3.030 %) CNE 4 1 (3.030 %) Novell Certification
System Software 1 27 (81.82 %) Active Directory 2 5 (15.15 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (9.091 %) Novell eDirectory 4 2 (6.061 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 2 (6.061 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (3.030 %) ARCserve 2 1 (3.030 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 12 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 7 (21.21 %) Citrix 3 5 (15.15 %) VMware 4 3 (9.091 %) Apple 5 2 (6.061 %) VERITAS 6 1 (3.030 %) Cisco 6 1 (3.030 %) Novell