Yorkshire Exchange Server 2000 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 skills within the 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 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	83	115
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	39	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	7.236 %	3.755 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£80
Average daily rate	£281	£80
% change on same period last year	+250.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£81
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£269
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£20.80
% change on same period last year	+20.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£23.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.33	£19.99
% change on same period last year	+16.73 %
Application Platforms Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	539	506
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.718 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	88	73
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£338
Average daily rate	£332	£353
% change on same period last year	-5.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.47	£16.52
Average hourly rate	£24.49	£17.90
% change on same period last year	+36.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.52	£19.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Exchange Server 2000 England

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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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 Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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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 Yorkshire region.

Exchange Server 2000
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Exchange Server 2000 across the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire	+8	23	£283	+253.06 %
North Yorkshire	+12	14	-	-
South Yorkshire	+1	2	£275	-

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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 Yorkshire 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 56 (87.50 %) Windows 1 56 (87.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 51 (79.69 %) Active Directory 3 48 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 4 40 (62.50 %) Microsoft 5 27 (42.19 %) Windows 2000 6 22 (34.38 %) MS Office 7 18 (28.13 %) SQL 7 18 (28.13 %) Citrix 8 17 (26.56 %) MS Excel 8 17 (26.56 %) Windows Server 2003 9 15 (23.44 %) SQL Server 2000 9 15 (23.44 %) SQL Server 9 15 (23.44 %) ITIL 9 15 (23.44 %) Windows XP

9 15 (23.44 %) WAN 9 15 (23.44 %) Legal 10 12 (18.75 %) VMware 10 12 (18.75 %) VMware ESX 10 12 (18.75 %) VMware Infrastructure 10 12 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 10 12 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 10 12 (18.75 %) MCSE 10 12 (18.75 %) Intranet 11 11 (17.19 %) SQL Server 2005 12 8 (12.50 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 8 (12.50 %) HP 12 8 (12.50 %) Symantec 12 8 (12.50 %) Windows NT 13 7 (10.94 %) VPN

Exchange Server 2000
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 Development 1 3 (4.688 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 56 (87.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 48 (75.00 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (9.375 %) Lotus Notes 4 5 (7.813 %) SharePoint 5 3 (4.688 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (1.563 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (1.563 %) IIS
Applications 1 22 (34.38 %) MS Office 2 17 (26.56 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (23.44 %) WAN 2 12 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 2 12 (18.75 %) Intranet 3 7 (10.94 %) VPN 3 7 (10.94 %) Firewall 4 6 (9.375 %) SAN 4 6 (9.375 %) MPLS 5 5 (7.813 %) DNS 6 4 (6.250 %) Internet 7 3 (4.688 %) LAN 8 2 (3.125 %) DHCP 9 1 (1.563 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (23.44 %) SQL Server 1 15 (23.44 %) SQL Server 2000 2 11 (17.19 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (4.688 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (3.125 %) MS Access 5 1 (1.563 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (1.563 %) Visual Studio
General 1 15 (23.44 %) Legal 2 6 (9.375 %) Finance 3 3 (4.688 %) Banking 4 2 (3.125 %) Education 4 2 (3.125 %) Law 5 1 (1.563 %) Government	Job Titles 1 14 (21.88 %) 2nd Line Support 2 10 (15.63 %) Analyst 2 10 (15.63 %) Support Engineer 3 7 (10.94 %) Helpdesk Support 4 5 (7.813 %) Server Engineer 4 5 (7.813 %) Helpdesk Operator 4 5 (7.813 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 5 (7.813 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (6.250 %) Technical Consultant 5 4 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (6.250 %) Consultant 6 3 (4.688 %) Server Support 6 3 (4.688 %) Service Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) 1st Line Support 6 3 (4.688 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 3 (4.688 %) Server Support Engineer 7 2 (3.125 %) Windows Server Engineer 7 2 (3.125 %) Exchange Engineer 7 2 (3.125 %) Project Consultant 7 2 (3.125 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.813 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.563 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.563 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 56 (87.50 %) Windows 2 27 (42.19 %) Windows 2000 3 17 (26.56 %) Windows Server 2003 4 15 (23.44 %) Windows XP 5 8 (12.50 %) Windows NT 6 2 (3.125 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (23.44 %) ITIL 2 6 (9.375 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (6.250 %) Network Load Balancing 4 2 (3.125 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.563 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.563 %) ERP 5 1 (1.563 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.563 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 18 (28.13 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (18.75 %) MCSE 1 12 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.563 %) HNC 3 1 (1.563 %) CNA 3 1 (1.563 %) CNE 3 1 (1.563 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 51 (79.69 %) Active Directory 2 12 (18.75 %) VMware ESX 2 12 (18.75 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (9.375 %) Backup Exec 4 3 (4.688 %) Novell eDirectory 4 3 (4.688 %) ISA Server 5 2 (3.125 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 8 (12.50 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 7 (10.94 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 5 (7.813 %) OpenView 4 4 (6.250 %) MOM 4 4 (6.250 %) ARCserve 5 3 (4.688 %) SCOM 6 1 (1.563 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 40 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 18 (28.13 %) Citrix 3 12 (18.75 %) VMware 4 8 (12.50 %) HP 4 8 (12.50 %) Symantec 5 6 (9.375 %) Lotus 6 5 (7.813 %) Remedy 7 3 (4.688 %) Altiris 8 2 (3.125 %) Mitel 9 1 (1.563 %) Oracle 9 1 (1.563 %) Intel 9 1 (1.563 %) Novell 9 1 (1.563 %) VERITAS